World Entertament News Network reports that QUEEN guarist Brian May did not realize his bandmate Freddie Mercury was gay for years — bee the flamboyant star had a strg of girliends. The pair was close durg the early days of the band, but the legendary guarist sists he had no cl...
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- QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY
- FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
- QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY
December 19, 2008World Entertament News Network reports that QUEEN guarist Brian May did not realize his bandmate Freddie Mercury was gay for years — bee the flamboyant star had a strg of pair was close durg the early days of the band, but the legendary guarist sists he had no clatn of Mercury's tells Bra's Daily Exprs, "No, I didn't know.
FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
I thk there was a slight spicn, but never occurred to me that he was gay.
" And even when the ontman, who died 1991, had e to terms wh his sexual orientatn, he beme well versed at avoidg the issue when asked adds, "I remember Freddie beg asked if he was gay one of his early terviews and he said: 'Y, darlg, of urse.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
I'm as gay as a daffodil'. "I know that all through his life Fred didn't thk that whether he was gay or not was important.
Anyone who portrays Fred as purely a gay story is missg a lot of the pot. But while the Netherlands, which 2001 beme the first untry to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been dog so unofficially. (The term “cut sleeve” remaed a Che phemism for male homosexualy for centuri.
The liph’s sexualy has been the source of some bate: Acrdg to the French medievalist Évariste Lévi-Provençal, the phrase “hubb al-walad, ” found 16th-century historian Ahmed Mohammed al-Maqqari’s pendium "Nafh at-Tib" reference to Al-Hakam II, translat as a “preference for boys, ” though other scholars mata refers to paternal Medieval Europe scholar Francis Prado-Vilar wrote that knowledge of Al-Hakam’s homosexualy the urt of Córdoba “enuraged the ambns of the factns gathered around his much younger brother, Prce al-Mughira. ”“In his youth his lov seem to have been entirely homosexual, ” queer studi scholar Louis Crompton wrote “Male Love and Islamic Law Arab Spa.