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. 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'. "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. He drsed Lady Diana drag and snuck her to a gay club.
FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
” When Diana quired about their eveng plans, Mercury said they were planng to vis the Royal Vxhall Tavern, one of the most inic gay venu London. “We plead, ‘What would be the headle if you were ught a gay bar brawl? “Sctizg her the half light, ” Ros ntu, “we cid that the most famo in of the morn world might jt – jt – pass for a rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol.
After that fun end, Mercury mentned to Prcs Diana that the three of them were gog to a notor gay bar lled Vxhall Tavern London. "Prcs Diana end up disguisg herself as a "rather eccentrilly drsed gay male mol. 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. Mercury's Parsee parents practiced Zoroastrianism, a relign that saw beg gay as a type of mon worship.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II LED THROUGH S OF CHANGE ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT HER LGBTQ LEGACY IS PLITED
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.