Bohemian Rhapsody's homophobia: how the film fears gay Freddie Mercury - Vox

Contents:

• GAY-SPECIAL R "SHOPPG QUEEN": KANDIDAT MICHAEL IST F R SUCHE NACH R GROßEN LIEBE
• SCHWULE SHOPPG QUEEN: VOX FEIERT PRI MONTH M GAY-WOCHE
• WHAT WAS LIKE TO E OUT AS GAY, AS TOLD BY MY ONLE SHOPPG HISTORY
• RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

GAY-SPECIAL R "SHOPPG QUEEN": KANDIDAT MICHAEL IST F R SUCHE NACH R GROßEN LIEBE

Es ist se erster Auftrt bei r Premiere s Gay-Specials r „Shoppg Queen“ und schon n ersten Muten ht Kandidaten Michael een Sgle-Auuf rs. „Alle Jungs sd gay kl.

Alle fünf Jungs sd gay und wollen m ihrem ganz eigenen Look überzgen. Für Michael ist die „Shoppg Queen“ gerazu prästiert für die Gay-Communy, Ralf hat sich extrem gut vorbereet, um see Highlights zu präsentieren und für „Tanzbär“ Andreas ist klar: „Hte hat er die Hosen an“. Diversy – Wer räumt die erste Gay-„Shoppg-Queen“- Krone ab?

SCHWULE SHOPPG QUEEN: VOX FEIERT PRI MONTH M GAY-WOCHE

Pünktlich zum sogenannten Pri Month, m die LGBTQ-Geme weltwe ihre Fte feiert und ßerm f anhalten Diskrimieng r Gellschaft fmerksam macht, dürfen bei „Shoppg Queen“ erstmals ee Woche lang nur schwule Männer Köln ist die queere Communy bekannterweise ziemlich groß, whalb die Stadt Wtutschland n perfekte Ort für „Gay Shoppg Queen“ darstellt. Er bewarb sich schon vor Jahren bei m VOX-Format, erhielt jedoch fgnd se Gchlechts ee im TV wird immer mehr f Diversy getzt — VOX will m „Shoppg Queen“ e Zeichen setzenKandidat Michael ft, dass „Shoppg Queen“ perfekt zur Gay Communy passt.

Juni) bei VOX eschalten, um kee Folge von „Gay Shoppg Queen“ zu tersant. It took me a while to realize I was gay. I heard a mor my senr year of high school that I was gay.

Of urse, took me pletely by surprise bee I wasn’t gay. I fely, absolutely, posively uld not be gay.

WHAT WAS LIKE TO E OUT AS GAY, AS TOLD BY MY ONLE SHOPPG HISTORY

After one existential crisis too many, my supportive iends did my job for me and got me an vatn to a “gay party.

I remember orrg my first pair of jean shorts and thkg, “It don’t matter if the make me look gay, bee I probably am gay! I obssed over labels, once makg a list on my dry-erase board of ways my life would change if I was “full-on gay” vers bisexual.

At some pot, somebody brought up me beg gay.

RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)

This moment is one of several Bohemian Rhapsody that almost giv you a glimpse of the profound paradox of gay life before and durg the AIDS crisis, when queer culture, subversive and life-embracg, built self triumphantly at the edg of a society that refed to legimize queer inty even as gleefully exploed queer entertaers like Freddie Mercury. The rult is far more hurtful than your average unnscly homophobic film. Bohemian Rhapsody is a movie that nscly tri to posn a gay man at s center while strategilly disengagg wh the “gay” part as much as n, fltg briefly over his emotnal and sexual experienc and fixatg on his platonic relatnship wh an ex-girliend stead.

It tak a hell of a lot of work to make a queerphobic film about one of the greatt queer ins history, but even though Bohemian Rhapsody was sort-of directed by Bryan Sger, who himself is openly gay, the movie somehow retreads queerphobic stereotyp stead of givg a fascatg, plex look at a real gay man. It also builds a whole annoyg subplot around the “predatory gay villa” trope, which is a tired, obnox cliché that Bohemian Rhapsody is even more problematic than ual bee ’s ed to imply that Mercury, a real-life gay man, was somehow rpted to beg queer by an opportunistic mic dtry parase who don’t really re about Freddie at all. And then, a few scen later, he haltgly nfs to his wife that he might be bisexual; she is the one who has to rm him, rponse, that he is gay.