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FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'

At one pot he claimed to be bisexual, but he may have been a gay man who got volved wh members of the oppose sex bee he was tryg to survive — and build a reer — a very homophobic world. Mercury hid his sexualy om his fayFor most of Mercury's life, the wir world didn't accept gays and bisexuals. LGBT people were barely reprented the media, and the msage society had to offer was that not beg heterosexual was homophobia rampant, many gay men felt prsured to hi their sexualy, cludg om their fai.

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Mercury's Parsee parents practiced Zoroastrianism, a relign that saw beg gay as a type of mon worship. The two lived together for several years and even got engaged before Mercury told At he was bisexual (her rponse was that she thought he was gay). " Ci like New York and Munich had gay scen where Mercury, who'd lled his sex drive "enormo" and who'd sung about beg "a sex mache ready to reload, " found one-night stands and UP FOR THE NEWSLETTERBeg a rock star allowed Mercury to ph genr boundariMercury was the one who suggted namg the band Queen, which at the time was a rogatory term for a gay man.

Among his sartorial choic were leotards, angel-wg cloaks, tight shorts, and leather or PVC attire that evoked a biker image then popular gay a star allowed Mercury to ph some boundari, but he still lived at a time when honty about his attractn to men uld have limed his reer, and the reers of his bandmat. Mercury didn't label his sexualy even after his AIDS diagnosisThe exact circumstanc of how Mercury was fected wh HIV are unknown, but the vis was spreadg through New York Cy's gay muny the late 1970s and early '80s. )As the 1980s progrsed, was obv many gay men were gettg sick and there was talk about a "gay ncer"; Mercury himself knew people wh the disease.

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