Was Freddie Mercury Gay?

Contents:

• IS FREDDIE DENNIS GAY REAL LIFE? INSI ‘BRIDGERTON’ ACTOR’S DATG LIFE
• 5 CELEBRI MOURED TO BE GAY WHO ARE ACTUALLY STRAIGHT
• THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA
• WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?

IS FREDDIE DENNIS GAY REAL LIFE? INSI ‘BRIDGERTON’ ACTOR’S DATG LIFE

EXCLUSIVE: A documentary about the problematic legacy of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge told through the perspective of s then-closeted gay star Mark Patton has been acquired by Virgil Films & Entertament. My Nightmare on Elm Street reunts Patton’s difficulti makg the 1985 horror sequel, which put him through a range of salac on-screen orals signed to whet the homophobic appet (nsc or otherwise) of 1980s dienc.

The Advote has scribed as “the gayt horror film ever ma. Patton’s actg résumé clus Broadway rol and the 1982 Robert Altman film, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, another part that he says led to him beg typest before he had e out as gay. We were very spired by the latt sndal: Patrick Stewart was falsely labelled gay by The Guardian.

5 CELEBRI MOURED TO BE GAY WHO ARE ACTUALLY STRAIGHT

The Guardian mt have fotten to prooead their paper before publitn, sce they mistakenly intified Patrick Stewart as a gay man their Ellen Page g out article. The third paragraph origally said ‘Some gay people, such as Sir Patrick Stewart, thk Page’s g out speech is newsworthy’.

But while on that note, let’s take a look at a few other people who have been surround by gay mours but are actually straight.

Ju Law has been the centre of gay mours for a while now and for var reasons.

THE NIGHTMARE BEHD THE GAYT HORROR FILM EVER MA

Dpe beg married several tim and datg a handful of women, Eddie Murphy was moured to be gay for many years. Every boy band history was moured to be gay...

Alas, the actor is not gay and has a very lengthy rume of past heterosexual relatnships.

Freddy and Jse were timate — they seemed to share a secret — and the subtext of that relatnship gave Freddy’s Revenge a homoerotic unrcurrent that eventually ma a cult classic. ”However much Englund held back, the damage was done: That scene helps tablish the lible imprsn of Freddy’s Revenge as the gayt slasher film ever ma.

WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?

Screenwrer David Chask spent years refg to acknowledge any tentnal subtext his script — a posn he has sce reversed — and director Jack Sholr claimed not to have noticed the movie’s gayns durg filmg. Watchg Freddy’s Revenge now, ’s hard to prehend that there was ever a bate over the film’s subtext, which be jt pla text the more blatantly homoerotic scen. His sexual ambiguy ma him the perfect choice for Jse, but gave the homophobic tractors of Freddy’s Revenge somethg to latch on to.

And even though Patton has embraced his “scream queen” stat — he had jt e om signg tographs and panel appearanc at San Diego Comic-Con this July afternoon — he remas driven by a need to set the rerd straight about the film that has hnted him for the past 30 Patton, whose only major film role before he played Jse was as a gay teenager later revealed to be a trans woman (played by Karen Black) Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the persistent cricism of Freddy’s Revenge was s own kd of nightmare: His sexual inty was exriated for g the film — and wh , his reer.

As the actor tells , he beme pigeonholed as gay long before beg an out leadg man was a possibily. At the same time, even as the AIDS crisis cimated the gay muny, Patton was forced to stay the closet, rtricted by a bs he eventually chose to leave the stigmatizatn of queer reprentatn over the last 30 years, perceptn of Freddy’s Revenge has shifted: The heavily d queerns that was once a mark agast has bee a charmgly dated relic of another time, and a sellg pot for cult nnoissrs.