QUEEN Guarist BRIAN MAY: 'I Didn't Know' FREDDIE MERCURY Was Gay

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• QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY
• WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?
• BGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY – HOW DID HE DIE, WAS HE GAY?
• FREDDIE {LOR:#595959;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:600;MARG-BOTTOM:0.625REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:0.875REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1.25REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.2;}} A{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:HER;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;} A:HOVER{LOR:#A00000;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}FREDDIE MERCURY IS ONE OF THE ROCK WORLD'S MOST VERSATILE AND ENGAGG PERFORMERS AS THE LEAD SGER OF QUEEN. 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AS THE ONTMAN OF QUEEN, MERCURY WAS ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED AND NOVATIVE SGERS OF THE ROCK ERA. BORN FARROKH BULSARA TANZANIA, MERCURY STUDIED PIANO BOARDG SCHOOL INDIA, THEN BEIEND NUMERO MICIANS AT LONDON'S EALG COLLEGE OF ART. MERCURY DIED OF AIDS-RELATED BRONCHIAL PNMONIA ON NOVEMBER 24, 1991, AT AGE 45.EARLY LIFEMERCURY WAS BORN FARROKH BULSARA ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1946, ZANZIBAR. MERCURY'S PARENTS, BOMI AND JER BULSARA, WERE PARSE, OR FOLLOWERS OF THE ZOROASTRIAN RELIGN WHOSE ANCTORS ME OM PERSIA. AFTER BOMI AND JER MARRIED, THEY MOVED TO ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA, WHERE BOMI WORKED AS A SHIER FOR THE BRISH ERNMENT'S HIGH COURT. THE FAY LIVED A FAIRLY AFFLUENT LIFE, WH A NANNY AND OTHER DOMTIC WORKERS. MERCURY'S SISTER, KASHMIRA, WAS BORN 1952.AT THE AGE OF 8, MERCURY'S PARENTS SENT HIM TO A BOARDG SCHOOL BOMBAY (NOW MUMBAI), INDIA, WHERE HE STUDIED PIANO AND SPENT HIS EE TIME WH HIS NT AND GRANDPARENTS. IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE THE CHARISMATIC YOUNG MAN JOED HIS FIRST BAND, THE HECTICS. IN 1963, MERCURY RETURNED TO ZANZIBAR.FOLLOWG A BLOODY REVOLUTN ON THE ISLANDS 1964, THE FAY FLED TO LONDON. MERCURY ATTEND THE EALG COLLEGE OF ART AND BEIEND A NUMBER OF MICIANS. IN 1969, MERCURY JOED A GROUP LLED IBEX AS THEIR LEAD SGER. HE PLAYED WH A FEW OTHER BANDS BEFORE JOG FORC WH HIS FUTURE QUEEN BANDMAT.TEETH AND VOL RANGEMERCURY WAS BORN WH FOUR EXTRA TEETH THE BACK OF HIS MOUTH, G HIS NOW-FAMO BUCKTOOTH GR. IN FACT, HIS NICKNAME GROWG UP WAS BUCKY. MERCURY NEVER GOT HIS TEETH FIXED BEE HE WAS AAID WOULD HIS IMPRSIVE FOUR-OCTAVE VOL RANGE.QUEEN MERCURY MET HIS FUTURE BANDMAT, DMMER ROGER TAYLOR AND GUARIST BRIAN MAY, AROUND THE TIME HE MOVED TO LONDON THE 1960S. THEY MET UP WH BASSIST JOHN DEAN 1971. THE QUARTET, WHICH MERCURY DUBBED {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}QUEEN, PLAYED THEIR FIRST GIG TOGETHER THAT JUNE. READ MORE: FREDDIE MERCURY WAS PART OF BRIAN MAY AND ROGER TAYLOR'S ENTOURAGE BEFORE FORMG QUEENIN 1973, QUEEN RELEASED THEIR FIRST ALBUM, TLED QUEEN. THEY QUICKLY FOLLOWED UP WH THEIR SEND ALBUM, QUEEN II, 1974, WHICH THEY RERD OVER JT ONE MONTH. THE ALBUM WAS THE FIRST TASTE OF THE GROUP'S SIGNATURE HARMONI AND MIC STYL, CLUDG BALLADS, FOLK, BLU, METAL, POP AND ROCK, AND CLUD THE SGLE "SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE."QUEEN'S MIC, HOWEVER, REALLY ONLY UGHT ON WH THEIR THIRD RERD, SHEER HEART ATTACK, ALSO RELEASED 1974. WH A SOUND THAT HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS A FN OF HARD ROCK AND GLAM ROCK, QUEEN HAD AN EVEN BIGGER H THE FOLLOWG YEAR WH THEIR FOURTH ALBUM, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1975). QUEEN'S POPULARY NTUED TO SOAR THROUGH THE LATE 70S AND EARLY 80S WH A DAY AT THE RAC (1976), NEWS OF THE WORLD (1978) AND THE GAME (1980). AFTER THE WORKS (1984), THE GROUP'S ABILY TO SELL ALBUMS BEGAN TO WANE, ALTHOUGH QUEEN NTUED TO DRAW HUGE CROWDS AS A LIVE ACT AROUND THE WORLD. IN ADDN TO HIS TALENTS AS A SGER AND SONGWRER, MERCURY WAS A SKILLED SHOWMAN. HE KNEW HOW TO ENTERTA DIENC AND HOW TO NNECT WH THEM. HE LIKED TO WEAR STUM — OFTEN FEATURG SKTIGHT SPANX — AND STTTED AROUND THE STAGE, ENURAGG FANS TO JO THE FUN. ARTISTIC NATURE, MERCURY WAS ALSO ACTIVELY VOLVED SIGNG THE ART FOR MANY OF THE GROUP'S ALBUMS.MERCURY ALSO LIVED A LAVISH LIFTYLE. HE LOVED CHAMPAGNE AND LIKED TO LLECT ART, ONCE SPENDG MORE THAN $400,000 ON A SET OF HAND-PATED CHA. ALWAYS ONE FOR A PARTY, MERCURY THREW HIMSELF ELABORATE CELEBRATNS; FOR ONE PARTICULAR BIRTHDAY, HE FLEW A GROUP OF IENDS TO THE ISLAND OF IBIZA. THE OCSN WAS MARKED BY FIREWORKS AND FLAMEN DANCG.BY 1989, MERCURY LARGELY RETREATED OM PUBLIC LIFE. HE DID NOT PROMOTE OR TOUR FOR QUEEN'S NEXT ALBUM, INNUENDO (1991), AND MORS ABOUT POSSIBLE HEALTH PROBLEMS BEGAN TO CIRCULATE. BEFORE HIS ATH, MERCURY WORKED THE STUD WH QUEEN. THE EFFORTS WERE RELEASED 1995 ON MA IN HEAVEN, THE GROUP'S LAST ALBUM WH ALL THE ORIGAL MEMBERS. GONE BUT CLEARLY NOT FOTTEN, THIS LLECTN OF MERCURY'S FAL PERFORMANC REACHED THE TOP OF THE BRISH CHARTS. MERCURY AND QUEEN WERE REGNIZED FOR THEIR NTRIBUTNS TO AMERIN MIC HISTORY WHEN THEY WERE DUCTED TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 2001.SONGS BY FREDDIE MERCURY AND QUEEN'KILLER QUEEN'QUEEN'S THIRD ALBUM, SHEER HEART ATTACK, FEATURED THEIR FIRST H, "KILLER QUEEN," A SONG ABOUT A HIGH-CLASS LL GIRL. THE 1974 SGLE H NO. 2 ON THE U.K. CHARTS, AND PEAKED AT NO. 12 THE U.S. UNLIKE MOST OF HIS OTHER MIC, MERCURY WROTE THE LYRICS BEFORE THE MIC. 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'MERCURY WROTE THE SONG "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY," A SEVEN-MUTE ROCK OPERETTA FOR THE 1975 ALBUM, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. OVERDUBBG HIS VOICE, MERCURY SHOWED OFF HIS FOUR-OCTAVE VOL RANGE ON THIS NOVATIVE TRACK. THE SONG H THE TOP OF THE CHARTS BRA AND BEME A TOP 10 H THE UNED STAT. 'WE ARE THE CHAMPNS' AND 'WE WILL ROCK YOU'THE 1978 H "WE ARE THE CHAMPNS," OFF OF THE ALBUM NEWS OF THE WORLD, BEME A TOP 10 SONG THE UNED STAT AND BRA. IT WAS FEATURED ON A SGLE WH "WE WILL ROCK YOU." BOTH SONGS HAVE TAKEN ON A LIFE OF THEIR OWN AS POPULAR ANTHEMS PLAYED AT SPORTG EVENTS. 'ANOTHER ONE B THE DT'ALWAYS EXPLORG NEW AND DIFFERENT SOUNDS, QUEEN TRIED THEIR HAND AT THE BIG MIC TREND OF THE TIME WH THE DIS-FLAVORED "ANOTHER ONE B THE DT," OM THEIR 1980 ALBUM THE GAME. 'CRAZY LTLE THG CALLED LOVE'ALSO ON OF THE GAME, MERCURY AND THE RT OF THE BAND SHOWED THEIR RANGE AS PERFORMERS WH THE ROCKABILLY-FLUENCED 1980 H "CRAZY LTLE THG CALLED LOVE," WHICH MERCURY PENNED.'UNR PRSURE' WH DAVID BOWIEIN 1981, QUEEN LLABORATED WH DAVID BOWIE TO CREATE "UNR PRSURE." A NO. 1 H BRA, THE SONG'S DISTCTIVE BASS LE WAS LATER REPORTEDLY ED BY VANILLA ICE FOR HIS 1990 RAP H "ICE, ICE BABY." READ MORE: INSI DAVID BOWIE AND QUEEN’S 'TENSE' RERDG SSN FOR "UNR PRSURE"'RAD GA GA'ALTHOUGH QUEEN'S POPULARY BEGAN TO WANE THE MID-1980S, THE GROUP HAD A MOR H 1984 WH "RAD GA GA." POP MICIAN LADY GAGA TOOK SPIRATN FOR HER STAGE NAME OM THE SONG. SOLO CAREERIN ADDN TO HIS WORK WH QUEEN, MERCURY RELEASED SEVERAL SOLO ALBUMS, CLUDG 1985'S MR. BAD GUY. HE ALSO LLABORATED WH OPERA SGER MONTSERRAT CABALLé FOR 1988'S BARCELONA. LIVE AID PERFORMANCEONE OF QUEEN'S MOST NOTABLE PERFORMANC WAS 1985 AT THE LIVE AID CHARY NCERT. SIMPLY DRSED A TANK TOP AND JEANS, MERCURY LED THE CROWD THROUGH SOME OF THE BAND'S GREATT HS WH GREAT ENERGY AND STYLE. HE GOT THE THOANDS OF MIC FANS AT LONDON'S WEMBLEY STADIUM TO CHANT ALONG TO "WE WILL ROCK YOU." FOR MANY WHO WATCHED THE EVENT LIVE OR ON TELEVISN, QUEEN GAVE ONE OF THE TOP PERFORMANC OF THE DAY-LONG EVENT, WHICH WAS ANIZED BY SGER AND ACTIVIST BOB GELDOF AND SONGWRER MIDGE URE TO RAISE MONEY FOR VICTIMS OF FAME AI. INSPIRED BY THE EVENT, THE BAND WROTE THE H "ONE VISN."{BORR-LEFT:MEDIUM SOLID BLACK;BORR-LEFT-LOR:#A00000;LOR:#323232;FONT-FAY:GILROY,HELVETI,ARIAL,SANS-SERIF;FONT-WEIGHT:800;LETTER-SPACG:0.02EM;MARG:0.625REM 0 0;PADDG-LEFT:1.25REM;}@MEDIA(MAX-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.4;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{FONT-SIZE:1REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.4;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{FONT-SIZE:1REM;LE-HEIGHT:1.4;}} B, STRONG{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-WEIGHT:BOLD;} EM, I{FONT-FAY:HER;FONT-STYLE:ALIC;}DOWNLOAD BIOGRAPHY'S FREDDIE MERCURY FACT {--DATA-EMBED-DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;CLEAR:BOTH;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;MARG-BOTTOM:0.9375REM;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;WIDTH:100%;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 20REM){{WIDTH:100%;MARG:0 TO 0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 30REM){{WIDTH:100%;MARG:0 TO 0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 40.625REM){{WIDTH:100%;MARG:0 TO 0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{WIDTH:100%;MARG:0 TO 0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{WIDTH:100%;MARG:0 TO 0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM){{WIDTH:100%;MARG:0 TO 0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 75REM){{WIDTH:100%;MARG:0 TO 0.9375REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{WIDTH:100%;MARG:0 TO 0.9375REM;}} A SPAN{RIGHT:1REM;} IMG{WIDTH:TO;HEIGHT:85VH;} A{DISPLAY:-WEBK-LE-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-LE-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-LE-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:LE-FLEX;POSN:VAR(--POSN, RELATIVE);} IMG:NOT(.EWCW41W1){DISPLAY:BLOCK;WIDTH:100%;HEIGHT:TO;-WEBK-ALIGN-SELF:FLEX-START;-MS-FLEX-EM-ALIGN:FLEX-START;ALIGN-SELF:FLEX-START;}{WIDTH:100%;DISPLAY:-WEBK-LE-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-LE-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-LE-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:LE-FLEX;-WEBK-FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;-MS-FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;FLEX-DIRECTN:LUMN;MARG-LEFT:TO;MARG-RIGHT:TO;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 20REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 30REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 40.625REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 48REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 64REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 73.75REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 75REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;}}@MEDIA(M-WIDTH: 90REM){{PADDG-LEFT:0REM;}}FIANCé MARY ATOFFSTAGE, MERCURY WAS OPEN ABOUT HIS BISEXUALY, BUT HE KEPT HIS RELATNSHIPS PRIVATE. HE WAS ENGAGED TO MARY AT AND HAD A SEVEN-YEAR RELATNSHIP WH JIM HUTTON UNTIL HIS UNTIMELY ATH.AT MET MERCURY 1969 WHEN SHE WAS A 19-YEAR-OLD MIC STORE EMPLOYEE AND HE WAS A 24-YEAR-OLD ON THE CP OF STARDOM. THEY QUICKLY BEGAN DATG; MERCURY WROTE THE BALLAD “LOVE OF MY LIFE" FOR AT. IN 1973 MERCURY PROPOSED; THE WEDDG WAS LLED OFF WHEN HE REVEALED TO HER THAT HE WAS BISEXUAL. THE PAIR REMAED CLOSE, AND AT TEND TO MERCURY AFTER HIS AIDS DIAGNOSIS. MERCURY ENTSTED MOST OF HIS TATE AND HIS LONDON MANSN, GARN LODGE, TO AT, WHO LATER MARRIED AND HAD TWO KIDS.“ALL MY LOVERS ASKED ME WHY THEY ULDN’T REPLACE MARY, BUT ’S SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE,” MERCURY SAID A 1985 TERVIEW. “THE ONLY IEND I’VE GOT IS MARY, AND I DON’T WANT ANYBODY ELSE. TO ME, SHE WAS MY MON-LAW WIFE. TO ME, WAS A MARRIAGE. WE BELIEVE EACH OTHER, THAT’S ENOUGH FOR ME.”READ MORE: MEET MARY AT, THE WOMAN WHO STOLE FREDDIE MERCURY'S HEARTBOYIEND JIM HUTTON MERCURY MET HUTTON, AN IRISH HAIRDRSER, THE 1980S AT A GAY NIGHTCLUB LONDON. MERCURY OFFERED TO BUY HUTTON A DRK; HUTTON DIDN'T REGNIZE THE SUPERSTAR AND TURNED HIM DOWN. THE PAIR RENNECTED A YEAR AND A HALF LATER AT ANOTHER NIGHT CLUB. THIS TIME THEY BEGAN DATG, AND HUTTON MOVED WH MERCURY LS THAN A YEAR LATER. ALTHOUGH MERCURY NEVER ME OUT, THE UPLE STAYED TOGETHER UNTIL MERCURY DIED OF AIDS 1991. AFTER MERCURY'S ATH, AT REPORTEDLY KICKED HUTTON OUT OF GARN LODGE. HUTTON LATER WROTE A BOOK ABOUT HIS RELATNSHIP WH THE SGER, MERCURY AND ME. HE DIED OF NCER 2010 AT THE AGE OF 60.READ MORE: THE COMPLITED NATURE OF FREDDIE MERCURY'S SEXUALYDEATHMERCURY DIED OM AIDS-RELATED BRONCHIAL PNMONIA AT HIS LONDON MANSN ON NOVEMBER 24, 1991. HE WAS 45 YEARS OLD.THE DAY BEFORE HIS ATH, ON NOVEMBER 23, 1991, MERCURY RELEASED A STATEMENT: "I WISH TO NFIRM THAT I HAVE BEEN TTED HIV-POSIVE AND HAVE AIDS. I FELT RRECT TO KEEP THIS RMATN PRIVATE TO DATE TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF THOSE AROUND ME. HOWEVER, THE TIME HAS E NOW FOR MY IENDS AND FANS AROUND THE WORLD TO KNOW THE TTH AND I HOPE THAT EVERYONE WILL JO WH MY DOCTORS AND ALL THOSE WORLDWI THE FIGHT AGAST THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE." LONGTIME IEND AND BANDMATE ROGER TAYLOR PROVID SOME SIGHT TO MERCURY'S CISN TO KEEP HIS BATTLE WH AIDS PRIVATE. "HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE LOOKED AT AS AN OBJECT OF PY AND CURSY, AND HE DIDN'T WANT CIRCLG VULTUR OVER HIS HEAD," TAYLOR SAID, ACRDG TO A REPORT ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY. THE ROCK WORLD MOURNED THE LOSS OF ONE OF S MOST VERSATILE AND ENGAGG PERFORMERS. TO HONOR HIS MEMORY, THE FREDDIE MERCURY TRIBUTE: CONCERT FOR AIDS AWARENS WAS HELD APRIL 1992 AT WEMBLEY STADIUM. A DIVERSE RANGE OF ROCK ACTS — OM DEF LEPPARD TO ELTON JOHN — PERFORMED TO CELEBRATE MERCURY AND ADVANCE THE FIGHT AGAST THE DISEASE THAT TOOK HIS LIFE. THAT SAME YEAR, MERCURY'S MOCK OPERATIC MASTERPIECE, "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY," APPEARED THE MOVIE WAYNE'S WORLD AND MA A RETURN TO THE BILLBOARD 100 POP CHARTS, ILLTRATG S TIMELS APPEAL.'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY' MOVIERELEASED 2018, THE MOVIE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, STARRG MR. ROBOT'S RAMI MALEK AS MERCURY, FOLLOWS THE RISE OF QUEEN LEADG UP TO THEIR LEGENDARY LIVE AID PERFORMANCE 1985. FOLLOWG THE MOVIE'S RELEASE, QUEEN'S MIC SAW A RURGENCE POPULARY S AFTER THEIR LAST STUD ALBUM. THE GROUP'S SONG "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY" SHOT OM 87TH PLACE GLOBALLY ON SPOTIFY THE DAY BEFORE THE MOVIE'S RELEASE TO 15TH ONE WEEK LATER, AND H THE BILLBOARD 100 FOR A THIRD {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: THE TE STORY BEHD FREDDIE MERCURY’S RELATNSHIPSHERE’S HOW HE MET MARY AT, HIS FIRST FIANCéE, AND JIM HUTTON, HIS ROMANTIC PARTNER OF SEVEN YEARS.BY YOHANA DTANOVEMBER 1, 2018FREDDIE MERCURY BACKSTAGE WH BOYIEND JIM HUTTON; MERCURY LONDON WH FORMER PARTNER, MARY AT, BOTH 1985.PHOTOS BY DAVE HOGAN/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHO WERE THE GREAT LOV OF FREDDIE MERCURY’S LIFE? PER THE QUEEN BPIC BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, DOWN TO TWO PEOPLE: MARY AT AND JIM HUTTON. HOWEVER, THE FILM LEAV OUT MANY TAILS ABOUT BOTH RELATNSHIPS, TWEAKG AND GLOSSG OVER PREC FACTS. HERE ARE THE TE STORI OF AT AND HUTTON, WHO ENTERED MERCURY’S LIFE AT CCIAL TIM AND REMAED CLOSE TO HIM UNTIL HIS ATH 1991.MARY AUSTININ 1969, AT WAS A 19-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE AT AN ENGLISH BOUTIQUE LLED BIBA WHEN SHE MET THE 24-YEAR-OLD MERCURY. AT THE TIME, HE WAS AN ASPIRG SGER, BUT HADN’T YET BEE ONE OF THE BIGGT ROCK STARS ON THE PLA. STILL, AT WAS TRIGUED BY THE “WILD-LOOKG ARTISTIC MICIAN.”“HE WAS LIKE NO ONE I HAD MET BEFORE,” SHE TOLD THE DAILY MAIL 2013. “HE WAS VERY NFINT—SOMETHG I HAVE NEVER BEEN. WE GREW TOGETHER.”THE PAIR QUICKLY BEGAN DATG. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY STEERS CLOSE TO THIS ORIG STORY, WH LUCY BOYNTON PLAYG AT. IN 1973, MERCURY PROPOSED. “HE GAVE ME A BIG BOX ON CHRISTMAS DAY. INSI WAS ANOTHER BOX, THEN ANOTHER AND SO WENT ON. IT WAS LIKE ONE OF HIS PLAYFUL GAM,” SHE RELLED. “EVENTUALLY, I FOUND A LOVELY JA RG SI THE LAST SMALL BOX. . . . I WAS SHOCKED. IT JT SO WASN’T WHAT I WAS EXPECTG. I JT WHISPERED, ‘Y. I WILL.’”MERCURY ALSO CEMENTED HIS ADORATN FOR AT WH THE BALLAD “LOVE OF MY LIFE,” (WHICH GETS A FAIR B OF PLAY BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY). HE ALSO TOOK HER TO MEET HIS PARENTS. “SHE WAS LOVELY,” MERCURY’S MOTHER, JER BULSARA, SAID A 2012 TERVIEW.HOWEVER, THE WEDDG WAS LLED OFF AFTER MERCURY ME OUT TO AT AS BISEXUAL, SHE TOLD THE DAILY MAIL. THOUGH THEY END THEIR ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THEY REMAED CREDIBLY CLOSE, WH MERCURY BUYG HER A HOME AND ALWAYS SPEAKG FONDLY OF HER PUBLIC.“ALL MY LOVERS ASKED ME WHY THEY ULDN’T REPLACE MARY, BUT ’S SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE,” MERCURY SAID A 1985 TERVIEW. “THE ONLY IEND I’VE GOT IS MARY, AND I DON’T WANT ANYBODY ELSE. TO ME, SHE WAS MY MON-LAW WIFE. TO ME, WAS A MARRIAGE. WE BELIEVE EACH OTHER, THAT’S ENOUGH FOR ME.”AT, WHO LATER MARRIED AND HAD TWO CHILDREN, TEND TO MERCURY AFTER HIS AIDS DIAGNOSIS. WHEN THE SGER DIED 1991, HE ENTSTED MUCH OF HIS TATE AND HIS LONDON MANSN, GARN LODGE, TO HER, WHICH SHE STILL MATAS. AT ALSO FULFILLED HIS WISH FOR HIS CREMATED REMAS TO BE STTERED AN UNDISCLOSED LOTN. “NOBODY WILL EVER KNOW WHERE HE IS BURIED BEE THAT WAS HIS WISH,” SHE ONCE SAID. “HE WANTED TO REMA A SECRET AND WILL REMA SO.”JIM HUTTONIN THE FILM, JIM HUTTON (PLAYED BY AARON MCCKER) IS PRENTED AS A MEMBER OF A CLEANUP CREW WHO HAS A TTY, BUT ULTIMATELY FLIRTAT TêTE-à-TêTE WH MERCURY AFTER ONE OF HIS R HOE PARTI. IN ACTUALY, THE IRISHMAN, BORN AND BROUGHT UP COUNTY CARLOW, WAS A HAIRDRSER WHO MET THE QUEEN ONTMAN AT A GAY BAR THE 1980S, ACRDG TO AN TERVIEW HUTTON DID WH THE THE TIM OF LONDON 2006. THOUGH THEY WOULD EVENTUALLY SETTLE TO A SEVEN-YEAR RELATNSHIP, ENDG WH MERCURY’S ATH 1991, WAS FAR OM LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.PER THAT TERVIEW, HUTTON SAID HE FIRST MET MERCURY AT HEAVEN, A GAY NIGHTCLUB LONDON. THE SGER, WHO WAS THREE YEARS OLR, OFFERED TO BUY HIM A DRK. HUTTON, WHO DIDN’T REGNIZE THE SUPERSTAR, REJECTED THE OFFER. THEY DIDN’T NNECT UNTIL A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, HUTTON SAID A 1994 TERVIEW, WHEN THEY SAW EACH OTHER, ONCE AGA, AT A NIGHTCLUB AND MERCURY OFFERED TO BUY HIM A DRK AGA. THIS TIME, HUTTON ACCEPTED. THEY BEGAN DATG AND, LS THAN A YEAR LATER, HUTTON MOVED TO GARN LODGE. HE KEPT HIS JOB AS A HAIRDRSER.THEY STAYED TOGETHER, THOUGH MERCURY NEVER PUBLICLY ME OUT, WHICH DIDN’T MATTER MUCH TO HUTTON. HOWEVER, THE UPLE DID FACE UPS AND DOWNS. “I SAW HIM WH ANOTHER GUY HEAVEN AND WE HAD A HUGE ROW. HE TOLD ME HE DID TO MAKE ME JEALO,” HUTTON RELLED TO THE TIM. “THEN ONE DAY I SAW HIM LEAVG HIS KENSGTON FLAT WH ANOTHER GUY AND WE HAD AN ARGUMENT. I TOLD HIM HE HAD TO MAKE HIS MD UP.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDOVER THE URSE OF THEIR RELATNSHIP, HUTTON WNSED HISTORIC MOMENTS, LIKE QUEEN’S SOARG LIVE AID PERFORMANCE 1985. “I WAS GOBSMACKED. YOU ULD FEEL THE EFFECT HIS STAGE PRENCE HAD ON THE CROWD,” HE SAID OF THE SHOW, WHICH HE WATCHED BACKSTAGE. “AFTERWARDS ELTON [JOHN] ME AND SAID, ‘BASTARD, YOU’VE STOLEN .’”IN THEIR DOWNTIME, HUTTON SAID THE QUEEN STAR WAS QUIET AND RERVED, A WORLD AWAY OM HIS SHOWMAN PERSONA. “HE LOVED HIS TS. I’D GET OM WORK. WE’D LIE TOGETHER ON THE SOFA. HE WOULD MASSAGE MY FEET AND ASK ABOUT MY DAY,” HUTTON SAID. THE PAIR KEPT ON FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS, UNTIL MERCURY’S DIAGNOSIS WH AIDS 1987. IT WAS AN EXCCIATG TIME, WH IENDS LIKE JOE FANELLI, MERCURY’S OK, AND PETER FRETONE, HIS ASSISTANT, TAKG TURNS NURSG THE AILG SGER.THE UPLE’S LAST NVERSATN, HUTTON SAYS, TOOK PLACE A FEW DAYS BEFORE MERCURY DIED. “IT WAS 6 A.M. HE WANTED TO LOOK AT HIS PATGS. ‘HOW AM I GOG TO GET DOWNSTAIRS?’ HE ASKED. ‘I’LL RRY YOU,’ I SAID. BUT HE MA HIS OWN WAY, HOLDG ON TO THE BANISTER. I KEPT ONT TO MAKE SURE HE DIDN’T FALL. I BROUGHT A CHAIR TO THE DOOR, SAT HIM , AND FLICKED ON THE SPOTLIGHTS, WHICH L EACH PICTURE. HE SAID, ‘OH THEY’RE WONRFUL’.”AFTER THE SGER’S ATH, AT TOOK OVER GARN LODGE, REPORTEDLY KICKG HUTTON OUT, SPE HUTTON’S CLAIM THAT MERCURY WANTED HIM TO STAY THERE. HE WAS VASTATED BY HER CISN, HE SAID. HOWEVER, MERCURY DID LEAVE HIM WH £500,000 (NEARLY $1 LN, PER THE 1991 NVERSN RATE), WHICH HE ED TO MOVE BACK TO IRELAND. HE ALSO WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP, SIMPLY TLED MERCURY AND ME.HUTTON DIED ON JANUARY 1, 2010, AFTER A LONG BATTLE WH NCER. HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD.20 DEFG NATALIE PORTMAN ROL1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM ©COLUMBIA PICTUR/PHOTOFT.LéON: THE PROFSNALTHE 1994 H-MAN DRAMA TAPULTED 13-YEAR-OLD PORTMAN TO STARDOM AFTER SHE PLAYED MATHILDA, A WORLD-WEARY PRE-TEEN WH AN LIBLE BOB CUT AND EVER-PRENT CHOKER.YOHANA DTA

QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY

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.

WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?

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. 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.

BGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY – HOW DID HE DIE, WAS HE GAY?

Even after velopg AIDS, he nied reports about his illns and beg gay. He was more upont wh his bandmat, but never told his fay why he was reason for Mercury's silence was worry about how his public image and legacy would change wh this revelatn, which at the time would have been enough to nfirm him as 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.

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AS THE ONTMAN OF QUEEN, MERCURY WAS ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED AND NOVATIVE SGERS OF THE ROCK ERA. BORN FARROKH BULSARA TANZANIA, MERCURY STUDIED PIANO BOARDG SCHOOL INDIA, THEN BEIEND NUMERO MICIANS AT LONDON'S EALG COLLEGE OF ART. MERCURY DIED OF AIDS-RELATED BRONCHIAL PNMONIA ON NOVEMBER 24, 1991, AT AGE 45.EARLY LIFEMERCURY WAS BORN FARROKH BULSARA ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1946, ZANZIBAR. MERCURY'S PARENTS, BOMI AND JER BULSARA, WERE PARSE, OR FOLLOWERS OF THE ZOROASTRIAN RELIGN WHOSE ANCTORS ME OM PERSIA. AFTER BOMI AND JER MARRIED, THEY MOVED TO ZANZIBAR, TANZANIA, WHERE BOMI WORKED AS A SHIER FOR THE BRISH ERNMENT'S HIGH COURT. THE FAY LIVED A FAIRLY AFFLUENT LIFE, WH A NANNY AND OTHER DOMTIC WORKERS. MERCURY'S SISTER, KASHMIRA, WAS BORN 1952.AT THE AGE OF 8, MERCURY'S PARENTS SENT HIM TO A BOARDG SCHOOL BOMBAY (NOW MUMBAI), INDIA, WHERE HE STUDIED PIANO AND SPENT HIS EE TIME WH HIS NT AND GRANDPARENTS. IT WAS NOT LONG BEFORE THE CHARISMATIC YOUNG MAN JOED HIS FIRST BAND, THE HECTICS. IN 1963, MERCURY RETURNED TO ZANZIBAR.FOLLOWG A BLOODY REVOLUTN ON THE ISLANDS 1964, THE FAY FLED TO LONDON. MERCURY ATTEND THE EALG COLLEGE OF ART AND BEIEND A NUMBER OF MICIANS. IN 1969, MERCURY JOED A GROUP LLED IBEX AS THEIR LEAD SGER. HE PLAYED WH A FEW OTHER BANDS BEFORE JOG FORC WH HIS FUTURE QUEEN BANDMAT.TEETH AND VOL RANGEMERCURY WAS BORN WH FOUR EXTRA TEETH THE BACK OF HIS MOUTH, G HIS NOW-FAMO BUCKTOOTH GR. IN FACT, HIS NICKNAME GROWG UP WAS BUCKY. MERCURY NEVER GOT HIS TEETH FIXED BEE HE WAS AAID WOULD HIS IMPRSIVE FOUR-OCTAVE VOL RANGE.QUEEN MERCURY MET HIS FUTURE BANDMAT, DMMER ROGER TAYLOR AND GUARIST BRIAN MAY, AROUND THE TIME HE MOVED TO LONDON THE 1960S. THEY MET UP WH BASSIST JOHN DEAN 1971. THE QUARTET, WHICH MERCURY DUBBED {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}QUEEN, PLAYED THEIR FIRST GIG TOGETHER THAT JUNE. READ MORE: FREDDIE MERCURY WAS PART OF BRIAN MAY AND ROGER TAYLOR'S ENTOURAGE BEFORE FORMG QUEENIN 1973, QUEEN RELEASED THEIR FIRST ALBUM, TLED QUEEN. THEY QUICKLY FOLLOWED UP WH THEIR SEND ALBUM, QUEEN II, 1974, WHICH THEY RERD OVER JT ONE MONTH. THE ALBUM WAS THE FIRST TASTE OF THE GROUP'S SIGNATURE HARMONI AND MIC STYL, CLUDG BALLADS, FOLK, BLU, METAL, POP AND ROCK, AND CLUD THE SGLE "SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE."QUEEN'S MIC, HOWEVER, REALLY ONLY UGHT ON WH THEIR THIRD RERD, SHEER HEART ATTACK, ALSO RELEASED 1974. WH A SOUND THAT HAS BEEN SCRIBED AS A FN OF HARD ROCK AND GLAM ROCK, QUEEN HAD AN EVEN BIGGER H THE FOLLOWG YEAR WH THEIR FOURTH ALBUM, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA (1975). QUEEN'S POPULARY NTUED TO SOAR THROUGH THE LATE 70S AND EARLY 80S WH A DAY AT THE RAC (1976), NEWS OF THE WORLD (1978) AND THE GAME (1980). AFTER THE WORKS (1984), THE GROUP'S ABILY TO SELL ALBUMS BEGAN TO WANE, ALTHOUGH QUEEN NTUED TO DRAW HUGE CROWDS AS A LIVE ACT AROUND THE WORLD. IN ADDN TO HIS TALENTS AS A SGER AND SONGWRER, MERCURY WAS A SKILLED SHOWMAN. HE KNEW HOW TO ENTERTA DIENC AND HOW TO NNECT WH THEM. HE LIKED TO WEAR STUM — OFTEN FEATURG SKTIGHT SPANX — AND STTTED AROUND THE STAGE, ENURAGG FANS TO JO THE FUN. ARTISTIC NATURE, MERCURY WAS ALSO ACTIVELY VOLVED SIGNG THE ART FOR MANY OF THE GROUP'S ALBUMS.MERCURY ALSO LIVED A LAVISH LIFTYLE. HE LOVED CHAMPAGNE AND LIKED TO LLECT ART, ONCE SPENDG MORE THAN $400,000 ON A SET OF HAND-PATED CHA. ALWAYS ONE FOR A PARTY, MERCURY THREW HIMSELF ELABORATE CELEBRATNS; FOR ONE PARTICULAR BIRTHDAY, HE FLEW A GROUP OF IENDS TO THE ISLAND OF IBIZA. THE OCSN WAS MARKED BY FIREWORKS AND FLAMEN DANCG.BY 1989, MERCURY LARGELY RETREATED OM PUBLIC LIFE. HE DID NOT PROMOTE OR TOUR FOR QUEEN'S NEXT ALBUM, INNUENDO (1991), AND MORS ABOUT POSSIBLE HEALTH PROBLEMS BEGAN TO CIRCULATE. BEFORE HIS ATH, MERCURY WORKED THE STUD WH QUEEN. THE EFFORTS WERE RELEASED 1995 ON MA IN HEAVEN, THE GROUP'S LAST ALBUM WH ALL THE ORIGAL MEMBERS. GONE BUT CLEARLY NOT FOTTEN, THIS LLECTN OF MERCURY'S FAL PERFORMANC REACHED THE TOP OF THE BRISH CHARTS. MERCURY AND QUEEN WERE REGNIZED FOR THEIR NTRIBUTNS TO AMERIN MIC HISTORY WHEN THEY WERE DUCTED TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME 2001.SONGS BY FREDDIE MERCURY AND QUEEN'KILLER QUEEN'QUEEN'S THIRD ALBUM, SHEER HEART ATTACK, FEATURED THEIR FIRST H, "KILLER QUEEN," A SONG ABOUT A HIGH-CLASS LL GIRL. THE 1974 SGLE H NO. 2 ON THE U.K. CHARTS, AND PEAKED AT NO. 12 THE U.S. UNLIKE MOST OF HIS OTHER MIC, MERCURY WROTE THE LYRICS BEFORE THE MIC. 'BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'MERCURY WROTE THE SONG "BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY," A SEVEN-MUTE ROCK OPERETTA FOR THE 1975 ALBUM, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. OVERDUBBG HIS VOICE, MERCURY SHOWED OFF HIS FOUR-OCTAVE VOL RANGE ON THIS NOVATIVE TRACK. THE SONG H THE TOP OF THE CHARTS BRA AND BEME A TOP 10 H THE UNED STAT. 'WE ARE THE CHAMPNS' AND 'WE WILL ROCK YOU'THE 1978 H "WE ARE THE CHAMPNS," OFF OF THE ALBUM NEWS OF THE WORLD, BEME A TOP 10 SONG THE UNED STAT AND BRA. IT WAS FEATURED ON A SGLE WH "WE WILL ROCK YOU." BOTH SONGS HAVE TAKEN ON A LIFE OF THEIR OWN AS POPULAR ANTHEMS PLAYED AT SPORTG EVENTS. 'ANOTHER ONE B THE DT'ALWAYS EXPLORG NEW AND DIFFERENT SOUNDS, QUEEN TRIED THEIR HAND AT THE BIG MIC TREND OF THE TIME WH THE DIS-FLAVORED "ANOTHER ONE B THE DT," OM THEIR 1980 ALBUM THE GAME. 'CRAZY LTLE THG CALLED LOVE'ALSO ON OF THE GAME, MERCURY AND THE RT OF THE BAND SHOWED THEIR RANGE AS PERFORMERS WH THE ROCKABILLY-FLUENCED 1980 H "CRAZY LTLE THG CALLED LOVE," WHICH MERCURY PENNED.'UNR PRSURE' WH DAVID BOWIEIN 1981, QUEEN LLABORATED WH DAVID BOWIE TO CREATE "UNR PRSURE." A NO. 1 H BRA, THE SONG'S DISTCTIVE BASS LE WAS LATER REPORTEDLY ED BY VANILLA ICE FOR HIS 1990 RAP H "ICE, ICE BABY." READ MORE: INSI DAVID BOWIE AND QUEEN’S 'TENSE' RERDG SSN FOR "UNR PRSURE"'RAD GA GA'ALTHOUGH QUEEN'S POPULARY BEGAN TO WANE THE MID-1980S, THE GROUP HAD A MOR H 1984 WH "RAD GA GA." POP MICIAN LADY GAGA TOOK SPIRATN FOR HER STAGE NAME OM THE SONG. SOLO CAREERIN ADDN TO HIS WORK WH QUEEN, MERCURY RELEASED SEVERAL SOLO ALBUMS, CLUDG 1985'S MR. BAD GUY. HE ALSO LLABORATED WH OPERA SGER MONTSERRAT CABALLé FOR 1988'S BARCELONA. LIVE AID PERFORMANCEONE OF QUEEN'S MOST NOTABLE PERFORMANC WAS 1985 AT THE LIVE AID CHARY NCERT. SIMPLY DRSED A TANK TOP AND JEANS, MERCURY LED THE CROWD THROUGH SOME OF THE BAND'S GREATT HS WH GREAT ENERGY AND STYLE. HE GOT THE THOANDS OF MIC FANS AT LONDON'S WEMBLEY STADIUM TO CHANT ALONG TO "WE WILL ROCK YOU." FOR MANY WHO WATCHED THE EVENT LIVE OR ON TELEVISN, QUEEN GAVE ONE OF THE TOP PERFORMANC OF THE DAY-LONG EVENT, WHICH WAS ANIZED BY SGER AND ACTIVIST BOB GELDOF AND SONGWRER MIDGE URE TO RAISE MONEY FOR VICTIMS OF FAME AI. 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HE WAS ENGAGED TO MARY AT AND HAD A SEVEN-YEAR RELATNSHIP WH JIM HUTTON UNTIL HIS UNTIMELY ATH.AT MET MERCURY 1969 WHEN SHE WAS A 19-YEAR-OLD MIC STORE EMPLOYEE AND HE WAS A 24-YEAR-OLD ON THE CP OF STARDOM. THEY QUICKLY BEGAN DATG; MERCURY WROTE THE BALLAD “LOVE OF MY LIFE" FOR AT. IN 1973 MERCURY PROPOSED; THE WEDDG WAS LLED OFF WHEN HE REVEALED TO HER THAT HE WAS BISEXUAL. THE PAIR REMAED CLOSE, AND AT TEND TO MERCURY AFTER HIS AIDS DIAGNOSIS. MERCURY ENTSTED MOST OF HIS TATE AND HIS LONDON MANSN, GARN LODGE, TO AT, WHO LATER MARRIED AND HAD TWO KIDS.“ALL MY LOVERS ASKED ME WHY THEY ULDN’T REPLACE MARY, BUT ’S SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE,” MERCURY SAID A 1985 TERVIEW. “THE ONLY IEND I’VE GOT IS MARY, AND I DON’T WANT ANYBODY ELSE. TO ME, SHE WAS MY MON-LAW WIFE. TO ME, WAS A MARRIAGE. WE BELIEVE EACH OTHER, THAT’S ENOUGH FOR ME.”READ MORE: MEET MARY AT, THE WOMAN WHO STOLE FREDDIE MERCURY'S HEARTBOYIEND JIM HUTTON MERCURY MET HUTTON, AN IRISH HAIRDRSER, THE 1980S AT A GAY NIGHTCLUB LONDON. 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HOWEVER, THE TIME HAS E NOW FOR MY IENDS AND FANS AROUND THE WORLD TO KNOW THE TTH AND I HOPE THAT EVERYONE WILL JO WH MY DOCTORS AND ALL THOSE WORLDWI THE FIGHT AGAST THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE." LONGTIME IEND AND BANDMATE ROGER TAYLOR PROVID SOME SIGHT TO MERCURY'S CISN TO KEEP HIS BATTLE WH AIDS PRIVATE. "HE DIDN'T WANT TO BE LOOKED AT AS AN OBJECT OF PY AND CURSY, AND HE DIDN'T WANT CIRCLG VULTUR OVER HIS HEAD," TAYLOR SAID, ACRDG TO A REPORT ENTERTAMENT WEEKLY. THE ROCK WORLD MOURNED THE LOSS OF ONE OF S MOST VERSATILE AND ENGAGG PERFORMERS. TO HONOR HIS MEMORY, THE FREDDIE MERCURY TRIBUTE: CONCERT FOR AIDS AWARENS WAS HELD APRIL 1992 AT WEMBLEY STADIUM. A DIVERSE RANGE OF ROCK ACTS — OM DEF LEPPARD TO ELTON JOHN — PERFORMED TO CELEBRATE MERCURY AND ADVANCE THE FIGHT AGAST THE DISEASE THAT TOOK HIS LIFE. 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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'.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY: THE TE STORY BEHD FREDDIE MERCURY’S RELATNSHIPSHERE’S HOW HE MET MARY AT, HIS FIRST FIANCéE, AND JIM HUTTON, HIS ROMANTIC PARTNER OF SEVEN YEARS.BY YOHANA DTANOVEMBER 1, 2018FREDDIE MERCURY BACKSTAGE WH BOYIEND JIM HUTTON; MERCURY LONDON WH FORMER PARTNER, MARY AT, BOTH 1985.PHOTOS BY DAVE HOGAN/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHO WERE THE GREAT LOV OF FREDDIE MERCURY’S LIFE? PER THE QUEEN BPIC BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY, DOWN TO TWO PEOPLE: MARY AT AND JIM HUTTON. HOWEVER, THE FILM LEAV OUT MANY TAILS ABOUT BOTH RELATNSHIPS, TWEAKG AND GLOSSG OVER PREC FACTS. HERE ARE THE TE STORI OF AT AND HUTTON, WHO ENTERED MERCURY’S LIFE AT CCIAL TIM AND REMAED CLOSE TO HIM UNTIL HIS ATH 1991.MARY AUSTININ 1969, AT WAS A 19-YEAR-OLD EMPLOYEE AT AN ENGLISH BOUTIQUE LLED BIBA WHEN SHE MET THE 24-YEAR-OLD MERCURY. AT THE TIME, HE WAS AN ASPIRG SGER, BUT HADN’T YET BEE ONE OF THE BIGGT ROCK STARS ON THE PLA. STILL, AT WAS TRIGUED BY THE “WILD-LOOKG ARTISTIC MICIAN.”“HE WAS LIKE NO ONE I HAD MET BEFORE,” SHE TOLD THE DAILY MAIL 2013. “HE WAS VERY NFINT—SOMETHG I HAVE NEVER BEEN. WE GREW TOGETHER.”THE PAIR QUICKLY BEGAN DATG. BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY STEERS CLOSE TO THIS ORIG STORY, WH LUCY BOYNTON PLAYG AT. IN 1973, MERCURY PROPOSED. “HE GAVE ME A BIG BOX ON CHRISTMAS DAY. INSI WAS ANOTHER BOX, THEN ANOTHER AND SO WENT ON. IT WAS LIKE ONE OF HIS PLAYFUL GAM,” SHE RELLED. “EVENTUALLY, I FOUND A LOVELY JA RG SI THE LAST SMALL BOX. . . . I WAS SHOCKED. IT JT SO WASN’T WHAT I WAS EXPECTG. I JT WHISPERED, ‘Y. I WILL.’”MERCURY ALSO CEMENTED HIS ADORATN FOR AT WH THE BALLAD “LOVE OF MY LIFE,” (WHICH GETS A FAIR B OF PLAY BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY). HE ALSO TOOK HER TO MEET HIS PARENTS. “SHE WAS LOVELY,” MERCURY’S MOTHER, JER BULSARA, SAID A 2012 TERVIEW.HOWEVER, THE WEDDG WAS LLED OFF AFTER MERCURY ME OUT TO AT AS BISEXUAL, SHE TOLD THE DAILY MAIL. THOUGH THEY END THEIR ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THEY REMAED CREDIBLY CLOSE, WH MERCURY BUYG HER A HOME AND ALWAYS SPEAKG FONDLY OF HER PUBLIC.“ALL MY LOVERS ASKED ME WHY THEY ULDN’T REPLACE MARY, BUT ’S SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE,” MERCURY SAID A 1985 TERVIEW. “THE ONLY IEND I’VE GOT IS MARY, AND I DON’T WANT ANYBODY ELSE. TO ME, SHE WAS MY MON-LAW WIFE. TO ME, WAS A MARRIAGE. WE BELIEVE EACH OTHER, THAT’S ENOUGH FOR ME.”AT, WHO LATER MARRIED AND HAD TWO CHILDREN, TEND TO MERCURY AFTER HIS AIDS DIAGNOSIS. WHEN THE SGER DIED 1991, HE ENTSTED MUCH OF HIS TATE AND HIS LONDON MANSN, GARN LODGE, TO HER, WHICH SHE STILL MATAS. AT ALSO FULFILLED HIS WISH FOR HIS CREMATED REMAS TO BE STTERED AN UNDISCLOSED LOTN. “NOBODY WILL EVER KNOW WHERE HE IS BURIED BEE THAT WAS HIS WISH,” SHE ONCE SAID. “HE WANTED TO REMA A SECRET AND WILL REMA SO.”JIM HUTTONIN THE FILM, JIM HUTTON (PLAYED BY AARON MCCKER) IS PRENTED AS A MEMBER OF A CLEANUP CREW WHO HAS A TTY, BUT ULTIMATELY FLIRTAT TêTE-à-TêTE WH MERCURY AFTER ONE OF HIS R HOE PARTI. IN ACTUALY, THE IRISHMAN, BORN AND BROUGHT UP COUNTY CARLOW, WAS A HAIRDRSER WHO MET THE QUEEN ONTMAN AT A GAY BAR THE 1980S, ACRDG TO AN TERVIEW HUTTON DID WH THE THE TIM OF LONDON 2006. THOUGH THEY WOULD EVENTUALLY SETTLE TO A SEVEN-YEAR RELATNSHIP, ENDG WH MERCURY’S ATH 1991, WAS FAR OM LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.PER THAT TERVIEW, HUTTON SAID HE FIRST MET MERCURY AT HEAVEN, A GAY NIGHTCLUB LONDON. THE SGER, WHO WAS THREE YEARS OLR, OFFERED TO BUY HIM A DRK. HUTTON, WHO DIDN’T REGNIZE THE SUPERSTAR, REJECTED THE OFFER. THEY DIDN’T NNECT UNTIL A YEAR AND A HALF LATER, HUTTON SAID A 1994 TERVIEW, WHEN THEY SAW EACH OTHER, ONCE AGA, AT A NIGHTCLUB AND MERCURY OFFERED TO BUY HIM A DRK AGA. THIS TIME, HUTTON ACCEPTED. THEY BEGAN DATG AND, LS THAN A YEAR LATER, HUTTON MOVED TO GARN LODGE. HE KEPT HIS JOB AS A HAIRDRSER.THEY STAYED TOGETHER, THOUGH MERCURY NEVER PUBLICLY ME OUT, WHICH DIDN’T MATTER MUCH TO HUTTON. HOWEVER, THE UPLE DID FACE UPS AND DOWNS. “I SAW HIM WH ANOTHER GUY HEAVEN AND WE HAD A HUGE ROW. HE TOLD ME HE DID TO MAKE ME JEALO,” HUTTON RELLED TO THE TIM. “THEN ONE DAY I SAW HIM LEAVG HIS KENSGTON FLAT WH ANOTHER GUY AND WE HAD AN ARGUMENT. I TOLD HIM HE HAD TO MAKE HIS MD UP.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDOVER THE URSE OF THEIR RELATNSHIP, HUTTON WNSED HISTORIC MOMENTS, LIKE QUEEN’S SOARG LIVE AID PERFORMANCE 1985. “I WAS GOBSMACKED. YOU ULD FEEL THE EFFECT HIS STAGE PRENCE HAD ON THE CROWD,” HE SAID OF THE SHOW, WHICH HE WATCHED BACKSTAGE. “AFTERWARDS ELTON [JOHN] ME AND SAID, ‘BASTARD, YOU’VE STOLEN .’”IN THEIR DOWNTIME, HUTTON SAID THE QUEEN STAR WAS QUIET AND RERVED, A WORLD AWAY OM HIS SHOWMAN PERSONA. “HE LOVED HIS TS. I’D GET OM WORK. WE’D LIE TOGETHER ON THE SOFA. HE WOULD MASSAGE MY FEET AND ASK ABOUT MY DAY,” HUTTON SAID. THE PAIR KEPT ON FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS, UNTIL MERCURY’S DIAGNOSIS WH AIDS 1987. IT WAS AN EXCCIATG TIME, WH IENDS LIKE JOE FANELLI, MERCURY’S OK, AND PETER FRETONE, HIS ASSISTANT, TAKG TURNS NURSG THE AILG SGER.THE UPLE’S LAST NVERSATN, HUTTON SAYS, TOOK PLACE A FEW DAYS BEFORE MERCURY DIED. “IT WAS 6 A.M. HE WANTED TO LOOK AT HIS PATGS. ‘HOW AM I GOG TO GET DOWNSTAIRS?’ HE ASKED. ‘I’LL RRY YOU,’ I SAID. BUT HE MA HIS OWN WAY, HOLDG ON TO THE BANISTER. I KEPT ONT TO MAKE SURE HE DIDN’T FALL. I BROUGHT A CHAIR TO THE DOOR, SAT HIM , AND FLICKED ON THE SPOTLIGHTS, WHICH L EACH PICTURE. HE SAID, ‘OH THEY’RE WONRFUL’.”AFTER THE SGER’S ATH, AT TOOK OVER GARN LODGE, REPORTEDLY KICKG HUTTON OUT, SPE HUTTON’S CLAIM THAT MERCURY WANTED HIM TO STAY THERE. HE WAS VASTATED BY HER CISN, HE SAID. HOWEVER, MERCURY DID LEAVE HIM WH £500,000 (NEARLY $1 LN, PER THE 1991 NVERSN RATE), WHICH HE ED TO MOVE BACK TO IRELAND. HE ALSO WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP, SIMPLY TLED MERCURY AND ME.HUTTON DIED ON JANUARY 1, 2010, AFTER A LONG BATTLE WH NCER. HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD.20 DEFG NATALIE PORTMAN ROL1 / 20CHEVRONCHEVRONFROM ©COLUMBIA PICTUR/PHOTOFT.LéON: THE PROFSNALTHE 1994 H-MAN DRAMA TAPULTED 13-YEAR-OLD PORTMAN TO STARDOM AFTER SHE PLAYED MATHILDA, A WORLD-WEARY PRE-TEEN WH AN LIBLE BOB CUT AND EVER-PRENT CHOKER.YOHANA DTA

"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.

It is possible that his relatnships wh women were a way of protectg his public image at a time when homosexualy was socially unacceptable or outright crimal. When Mercury was born and for most of his life, homosexualy was treated as a mental illns, a s, or a crime.

This extend to the legal stat of homosexuals; before 1967, gay men uld be sentenced to as long as two years prison. In the fah, homosexualy was nsired a form of mon worship.