Freddie Mercury - Freddie Mercury is always on Brian May's mind

my reason for leaving a reply on this site was after i read about Brian, always thinking about Fred,
it made me think about how Freddie helped me too, with my sexuality, and Queens music got me through
a panicky time in my life as my confidence was very low.
I always knew Freddie was gay, and i connected with that straight away.
freddie kind of you as well, this thing with mary was just a cover up, freddie was always gay.
even at boarding school he had boyfriends.
i love Freddie with all my heart , he is a knockout!

EEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
freddie kind of you as well, this thing with mary was just a cover up, freddie was always gay.
even at boarding school he had boyfriends.
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Whoah, whoah. For the record, I completely support you and am glad that Queen has meant so much to you, but isn't that a bit much? Freddie truly loved Mary as far as I can see, he'd probably be pretty insulted to have someone call her 'just a cover up' for his own sexuality which he was starting to question around 75-76.

I've heard of Freddie having girlfriends in his schooling but not boyfriends, so I'm not sure where you're getting that from either.

yes its well documented that freddie had quite a few gay affairs at boarding school.
when mary once asked freddie if they could both have a baby, freddie was horrofies and said
"oh darling id rather have another cat"! he knew he was gay.
Thats why back in 1971 he knew what the band was going to be called "Queen"
yes very flamboyant, very showy and totally freddie!!
i know freddie and mary had the kind of relationship of brother and sister,
although for a while he did try to play it straight but the gay feelings were overwhelming
and it was men that fred loved.
i would honestly say that freddie was 95% gay and 5% straight!
And lets face it if he had been 100% straight we wouldnt have had this wonderful
outrageous strutting peacock that we had in Queen!
No Straight man could have ever pulled that one off.
Freddie and jim looked so happy together, more so than when he was with mary,
he was more comfortable in his own skin with jim, and too be honest, jim was a good catch,
he was gorgeous!!

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

yes its well documented that freddie had quite a few gay affairs at boarding school.
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No, just one biography contains this claim, and it has since been written off as a piece of shit book.

An author who would tell revisionist history to sell books? Colour me shocked.

From this week's Private Eye magazine (UK).

Ha, that's fantastic.

[QUOTE] [b]PrimeJiveUSA wrote:[/b]

Brian truly loves Freddie[/QUOTE]

I don't think there's any question that all three did. I'm sure they went through a range of emotions, denial, fear, horror, heartbreak, anger, etc. The loss of Freddie meant Queen was in reality dead. Perhaps to us losing your band is no big deal but when you've rocked 70,000-plus stadiums and were on top of the world it must be hard to being second rate from then on

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]
when mary once asked freddie if they could both have a baby, freddie was horrofies and said
"oh darling id rather have another cat"! he knew he was gay.
Thats why back in 1971 he knew what the band was going to be called "Queen"[/QUOTE]

-sigh- Where is the logic? I don't want to have a baby right now, so I guess that means I'm gay right now.

The band spoke many times in their run about the gay connotations of their name, and none of those times did they agree that it was supposed to have any such implication. So there you go.

Firstley to your reply, are you really a Queen fan, cos you are finding what i say as very difficult to accept!
Mary pointed out in a documentary that freddie was gay!
she knew there relationship had been a lie, although freddie cared for her very deeply.
i agree that Brian, john and Roger were not fussed about calling the group Queen, but it was Freddies
idea after all, (does that ring a few bells) QUEEN, and fred just happened to be gay!
Freddie said he thought it was funny that no one had twigged when he cheekily decided on the name Queen,
yes he said it was grand, pompous, dandy, but we were!!
Also back in 1974 freddie dedicated "killer Queen" to Ed Hall who worked with band and EMI records,
Freddie fancied him, but Ed was playing hard to get so freddie dedicated the song to him, so ed says in a Queen documentary.

and there was me thinking that "being a queen fan" might actually be about liking the music.
not all this rubbernecking sensationalist , "who shagged who" whether "freddie was living a lie" when "freddie caught HIV" and whether he was "postman or letterbox" shit

idiot.

I'm as much a Queen fan as anyone else here is. I'm not saying at all that Freddie wasn't gay - he was. I'm just saying that not every aspect of his life (early life in particular) and everything he ever created was driven by this homosexuality, as much as you might like to think so.

Perhaps Killer Queen was really about Ed Hall, but then you have to take it with a pinch of salt - that documentary was tremendously biased. A bunch of Freddie's bitter ex-lovers getting him back for leaving them out of his will when he's no longer there to defend himself or determine the validity of certain statements.

hey what about freddies boarding school mates,
even they confirm that freddie was gay even back then,
so maybe freddie was really doing what so many men do
and hide behind a woman cos he was too frightened
to "come out" at that time.
he had to spill the beans eventually to mary,
and as freddie says there was tears on both sides.
in reply to your offensive reply Brenski, been a Queen fan is about
liking the music, but beacuse we love each and every band member
we wanna know more about them, and i am not an idiot as you pointed out
in your pathetic reply.
i know more about Queen than you do in your sleep!
40 years of knowledge, darling!

Just what we need here, another self-proclaimed expert on Freddie's innermost feelings telling revisionist history.

Nothing to see here, folks..

Expressing connections to the band members, even speculative ones, are for some people simply another means of expressing their emotional experience of the music and its importance to them. Contemplation of personal lives, even speculative contemplation, can be springboard for things people want to express about themselves or a gateway to bigger ideas and questions, or to building relationships and history on the boards. There are a couple of you that in my opinion really have to wise up to how poisonous your bully routines are to certain kinds of conversation and certain classes of forum participants.