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
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When Mercury reportedly told At he was bisexual, she said, "No Freddie, you're gay. Perhaps was gay shame, Mercury's ternalized homophobia echog society's belief that gay relatnships weren't "real" relatnships.
In a world where any man who has sex wh men is tomatilly nsired gay no matter how much he profs a love of women, uld Mercury tly have felt torn between the two sis of himself? He was rerdg artist the '70s and '80s, two s when the level of homophobia is difficult for anyone born after 1980 to fully prehend. In particular, Bra and the USA were sry plac for gay people, and the onset of AIDS gave license to the relig fulmators and right-wg zealots.
WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?
It's the first book to look tail at Mercury's battle wh HIV, not jt his stggle to keep his illns a secret (he announced he had AIDS only the day before he died), but also his sexual awakeng, his relatnships, and the aftermath of his ath, which was rife wh homophobia. The book tails that cultural homophobia and the way which affected Mercury's cisns around treatment and his public persona, even fluencg his cisn to stop appearg public. Leg of the tour that Freddie pursued his sire for gay sex New York and on September 25th, while appearg on Saturday Night Live, he began exhibg some symptoms associated wh someone recently fected wh HIV.
"While the language is ocsnally clunky and at tim outdated (some rears will crge readg "homosexual" ed nonscientific lerature), there is also some tertg analysis that queer studi stunts uld bate for days.
Whether or not is was an tobgraphil ttimony to his homosexualy, the tragic narrative of the song's text would take on an even greater meang after his ath. 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.
AM I GAY?
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. I'm as gay as a daffodil'.