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Contents:
- WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?
- BGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY – HOW DID HE DIE, WAS HE GAY?
- QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY
WAS FREDDIE MERCURY GAY?
In the film, the real tensns of gay life the 1980s – om ernment apathy towards the AIDS crisis, to rampant anti-gay prejudice – don’t get their due. * was freddy mercury 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.
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.
BGRAPHY OF FREDDIE MERCURY – HOW DID HE DIE, WAS HE GAY?
* was freddy mercury gay *
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.
QUEEN GUARIST BRIAN MAY: 'I DIDN'T KNOW' FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY
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.
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. (Image cred: Alamy)As a new box-set of Mercury’s solo work is released, Nick Leve nsirs the Queen legend’s myster inty – and his plex relatnship wh both his race and 1984, two years after the Gay Men’s Health Crisis anisatn was formed New York to bat Aids, Freddie Mercury sred his first solo h wh Love Kills.