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Contents:

• WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• FREDDIE GAY OBUARY
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY
• KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?

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.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

In the fah, homosexualy was nsired a form of mon worship. He suggted the name “Queen” for the band, a rogatory term for gay men, and equently wore outfs on stage that were evotive of gay fashn at the time. At had spected that Mercury was gay rather than bisexual.

Mercury embraced the gay scen of ci such as New York and Munich while on tour, engagg numero one night stands. Throughout the 1980s, many gay men began fallg severely ill and mors spread of a “gay ncer” the muny.

FREDDIE GAY OBUARY

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021.

NFL ACH BE FIRST MALE ACH MAJOR U.S. MEN’S PRO SPORTS TO E OUT AS GAY

Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

KEV MAXEN, JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH, OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

What the public may not know, however, is that Mercury’s high flamboyancy was once buried unr the eply rooted homophobia that once lived si of him. To better unrstand Freddie Mercury’s ial ternalized homophobia, we first have to look back at his home life.

”Mercury as a childAs a part of their relign, people who follow Zoroastrianism believe that homosexualy is a form of vil worship, and therefore sful. It was eher one or the other: gay, or straight; and they ually preferred the ia of a bisexual man is foreign to many.

Bisexual men are often scribed as “nfed gay men, ” or, “men who are aaid to e out as gay.

IS RUDY GAY A GOOD F?

When g out to her, she replied, “No, Freddie, you’re gay. It certaly wasn’t easy durg the 70’s and 80’s; homophobia was so eply tertwed wh Amerin and Brish culture.

Beg gay was seen bad enough, but to be gay durg the AIDS epimic was even is no five date as to when Freddie Mercury first ntracted AIDS. He stood as an in for young LGBTQ+ folk tryg to survive a homophobic/transphobic society. However, Mercury has given a large first step orr to make the chang for a safer, happier, and gayer world.

Freddie Gay.