How ABBA beme beloved gay ins: the surprisg story - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY
• THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS
• THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR
• FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

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

Who were gay the group Queen?

Wasn't Queen a gay band? 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'.

THE SURPRISG STORY OF HOW ABBA BEME BELOVED GAY INS

"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.

THE 1975 NCEL SHOWS INDONIA AND TAIWAN AFTER MALAYSIA GAY KISS UPROAR

Homosexual acts are illegal Malaysia and punishable by f and up to 20 years prison. You are young people, and I’m sure a lot of you are gay and progrsive, ” he said addrsg the dience. Homosexualy is a crime Mlim-majory Malaysia.

Rights groups have warned of growg tolerance agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr vios posted on social media late on Friday, Healy was seen kissg bassist Ross MacDonald after cricizg Malaysia’s stance agast homosexualy a profany-lan speech to the ftival dience. Not as easy as looks” was cricised for kissg a male fan at a 2019 ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also has laws agast homosexual acts, media reported. Queen si-stepped every bary — gay and straight, mascule and feme, good taste and bad taste, art and ksch, rockist and poptimist, earnt and ironic, pretent and self-pretg, silly and profound, clever and stupid, metal and soft rock, funky and [rigid “We Will Rock You” clappg].

He was a gay in who also led heavy-metal parkg lots.

FREDDIE MERCURY 'ME OUT AS GAY LYRICS TO H QUEEN SONG BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY'

What’s amazg is how many people still don’t hear those songs as exprsns of Mercury’s homosexualy.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

On the ver, the four members don leather jackets — ’s possible this was dictated by Mercury’s enthiastic embrace of Munich’s gay club scene, though you uld also pot to the recent succs of Grease or the bad-ass ol of Mad Max.

On the ver, he sports his now-inic “Castro clone” look for the first time, and on the sgle “Body Language, ” he all but clar his passn for sweaty gay sex.

Gay revelers (and their lucky straight iends) are wavg their arms, strikg genue pos and shamelsly sgg along to the sugary 45-year-old pop standard that’s bee synonymo wh queer nightlife. ” and “Macho Man” for themselv, but there’s no way they’ll take this one om to multiple stage and screen rnatns of “Mamma Mia!, ” fabuloly garish stum om gay signer Owe Sandström and nsummately crafted songs more retroactively popular than their ’70s and early ’80s heyday, ABBA has for s been the bull’s-eye of the LGBTQ mil universe.