Was mercury gay
Who was the real Freddie Mercury?
But when it came to both his sexuality and his ethnicity, Mercury favoured privacy over conduct proclamations until the cease of his life. As Kalyan points out, “he didn’t talk about going to school in India or his love for Lata Mangeshkar. That wasn’t part of his narrative”. Nor was his sexuality: on 22 November 1991, monitoring what he called “enormous conjecture” in the press, Mercury finally released a statement confirming that he had been tested HIV positive, and had Aids, but made no mention of his relationship with Jim Hutton. Around 24 hours later, he died. “Think about the immediacy of that – one of the biggest stars on the planet announces he has Aids, then dies of the disease,” says Ryan Butcher, who calls it “a culture shock that seems almost unfathomable today”. Privately, Mercury had been diagnosed as HIV positive four years earlier, and Butcher suggests, speculatively, that his friendship with the late Diana, Princess of Wales while living with HIV and Aids could have been a contributing factor in her ruling to promote better understanding of the disease. But this, like so much with Mercury, is something we’ll probably never comprehend for c
Freddie Mercury & Bisexuality: Why ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Struggled To Explain the Rocker’s True Story
In telling Freddie Mercury’s authentic story, Bohemian Rhapsodyhad a difficult task. The Queen singer was notoriously secret about many aspects of his existence, but one particular aspect has remained a point of interest among fans even today, nearly 30 years after his passing: his sexuality.
During one emotionally fraught scene in the new biopic, Mercury (portrayed vividly by Rami Malek) cautiously looks up at his fiancée and soon-to-be-friend Mary Austin (Lucy Boynton) and says, “I think I’m bisexual.” His lover looks down at him, almost pityingly, and retorts. “No, Freddie. You’re gay.”
For many out there, this particular moment almost rang too true to valid life. Bisexual people face the existence of bi-erasure on a near-daily basis, being told that they’re either “too gay” or “not gay enough,” with little to no attention paid to their actual sexual identity. So it’s natural that many critics and Twitter users would summon Bohemian Rhapsody out for attemptin
Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin: The insider's tale of their lifelong love story
4 August 2023, 10:45
Freddie Mercury and Mary Austin had an exceedingly close bond that spanned over three decades.
Freddie Mercury, was openly gay, however, he had one woman in his life who was more important to him than anyone else and who he referred to proudly as his 'soulmate'.
The extraordinary and life-long love between Mary Austin and the singer was played out on screen in the Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody and Freddie Mercury said he'd love her "Until I draw my last breath. We’ll probably flourish old together".
Over the years close friends and Mary Austin herself have spoken out about the remarkable relationship – one that was so significant it was reportedly the inspiration behind Queen's hit ballad, 'Love of My Life' – and fans the world over and still fascinated by the pair's close bond.
A young Freddie Mercury first met Mary in 1969, when he was 24-years-old, five years after moving to England and a year before he joined the band, Queen.
Mary Austin was from a working-class family in Fulham, west London – her father w
The Complicated Nature of Freddie Mercury's Sexuality
Queen's Freddie Mercury never wanted to contain an in-depth discussion about his sexuality with the public. However, it was well known that this icon of rock had had relationships with both men and women. At one point he claimed to be bisexual, but he may have been a gay man who got involved with members of the opposite sex because he was trying to survive — and build a career — in a very homophobic world. Mercury died of an AIDS-related illness at the age of 45, taking his personal insights into his sexuality to the grave. Yet a look at the circumstances of his life, loves and career can still offer insight into who he truly was.
Mercury hid his sexuality from his family
For most of Mercury's life, the wider planet didn't accept gays and bisexuals. Born in 1946, he grew up at a time when queer attraction was considered a mental illness, a tragedy, a joke, or some combination of the three. LGBT people were barely represented in the media, and the message culture had to offer was that not being heterosexual was unacceptable.
With homophobia rampant, many gay men felt pressured to hide their sexuality, including from the
We Always Talk About Freddie Mercury’s Sexuality, But What About His Confusing Racial Identity?
With Bohemian Rhapsody, the film about Queen’s eccentric frontman Freddie Mercury, just around the corner, discourse about Mercury’s sexuality has rocked the internet. Some folks say that Mercury was same-sex attracted, some say he was bisexual, some say he was queer and some say that he didn’t like organism defined by labels so we shouldn’t be trying to label him now. (Even the film’s star, Rami Malek, got a small flummoxed when discussing Mercury’s status as a queer diva in an interview with INTO.) In a lot of ways, it makes sense that LGBTQ folks try to claim Mercury and place him into different categories. It makes conversations easier if we can point to a famous person in history and speak “This person is one of us!”
Article by Ryan Khosravi | IntoMore
Interestingly, this isn’t the only debate surrounding Mercury’s identity — in addition to LGBTQ groups wanting to claim him, so do diverse racial groups. In fact, I don’t think many folks even know what to guess in terms of Freddie Mercury’s race (most probably assume he’s just white).
When I was a petite gay Persian kid running arou