Were you ever mocked at school for liking Queen?

Not really in school....I got into them later on in1989 I was a Junior In HS. I actually got praised for liking a classic band at such a young age. I did get a few Gay comments. Back then people thought the whole band was Gay. For young men That's a big deal, not me though....Now, fast forward to 1993 when Grunge was in style. Everything was Nirvana, I always disliked that band, so would wear my Queen shirt and get a few confused stares. These days my girlfriend got me two Queen Shirts that I occasionally wear to the gym and people look at me like It's good too see someone who likes classic Rock, not this crap they play today. They get more respect these days. Part of it is because all the so called cool bands, Metallica, Gun N Roses, Nirvana were all influenced by them.

Basically the same story. Everyone was into rave and house music. I was into Queen.

Now they all have Greatest Hits in the car with their 10 kids. I do not have rave or house CDs in the car.

I won.

I'll probably get shit for this, but back in the mid to late 70's when I was a teenager, I believed that Freddie was straight, based on a People Magazine article that showed loyal Mary Austin hanging off his arm. Little did I know that Freddie had already told Mary that he was gay, and it was all a ruse.

Panchgani, That's true.....I have older siblings that were teenagers in the late 70's that thought It was all an act, and thought Freddie was straight, citing that blond Freddie was married to. Of course that blond was Mary.

I remember one summer getting into Bowie and coming into school proudly pronouncing that my gay music liking days were behind me and I was all about Bowie now.

'He's EVEN GAYER!!!' came the collective reply. It didn't even dawn on me.

Back to the drawing board. Even though looking back they were just repeating what they'd heard their dads spouting at the TV.

... but that's not true!!! Freddie is gayer because he did not sleep with Mick Jagger.

In the mid 90s during the grunge period, I cannot possibly quantify how uncool it was to like Queen where I grew up.

Wizard, you're from Canada right?

I got into Queen in UK about 1977

It was distinctly uncool to like Queen at that time, essentially because of the roasting they got from the music press, regardless of what music they were producing

Clear memories of being thoroughly embarrassed / nervous buying Mr Bad Guy and glad the 12" vinyl was carried home in a non see-through bag

That all changed after Live Aid of course

i don't really think it was related to the gay connotations, they were, for a time, a bit to corporate for the rugged music tastes of teenagers at that time

Queen were the antithesis of the music ethic in the late 70s early 80s...and, from a UK perspective, seemed to be chasing the American market with every release. (Hot Space anyone?)

I was always in peoples faces with my Queen T-shirts and i remember i had the Queen crest on the back of my coat and under that it said : QUEEN THE GREATEST ROCK BAND IN THE WORLD! Some kids in town shouted at me " you have got to be jokin!
I was so proud to be a Queen fan and i didnt care what folk thought about them, they made amazing music and had the greatest singer and guitarist ever!

I still have the comments in my yearbook saying"you're still gay"and one saying something like "i don't care what u say, Freddie mercury was a gay! "

As if it had some bearing on myself.

They weren't mean spirited "in my time" cause they came from inherited voices and through friends of mine. So. ....it was kinda just parroting things as the previous guy said

Growing up in the 70's there was a lot of finger pointing, he's a Queen fan. . So what!

I was aware of the Deep Purple Led Zeppilin thing, most people liked one or the other, but what I als noticed with the people I knew was that the Zeppilin fans were more willing to accept my liking of Queen.

The real dislike came with punk because the movement was so anti everything that had gone before and Queen and their fans were a target.

Yes Queen were even targets of discrimination even on BBC Top of the Pops, as they would ignore them even when they were going up in the charts and the nasty trick what they used to do is use Queens soundtrack to close the show, in other words stick two fingers up at Queen fans. The band were even snubbed at The British Rock & Pop Awards in the UK for years and years and it was only after Freddie died they then said they were going to put it all right and offer Queen The outstanding contribution to music award!
I was fuming mad because it took a member to die before the powers that be acknowledged the bands talents.

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In the mid 90s during the grunge period, I cannot possibly quantify how uncool it was to like Queen where I grew up.
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That's strange, we are quite the same age and i started being fond of Queen in 1993-1995 era and Queen was quite popular at school, kind of hype after Freddie Mercury death. I had a lot of friends who had the first GH and we were listening to Queen together. I'm a Nirvana fan too but it came much later, I had some friends who were Nirvana fans in 1993-95 and never had any problem with them.

By the way, I have a funny anecdote. I remember that I have first heard the GH in my friend's home and loved it (was maybe 1993, i was 11-12 years old). I was convinced that the band was a modern band, I had no idea Mercury was dead since 2 years and that they had been existing since the 70ies and had a huge career. When my aunt (28 years old at the time) asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I told her "You certainly don't know this band (because you're too old?) but I would like a Queen disc". I can tell you she laughed a lot (and felt a bit old). But still she offered me the CD. :P

Grew up in the late nineties and never had a problem being mocked because I called myself a Queen fan. People at my school liked Queen and Freddie. I can't remember anyone being mocked because of what music they liked. It was a time of discovery so we we're all interested to explore different kinds of music. The only jokes that were ever made about Freddie to me were from my friends who, whenever I brought up that I liked Queen, used to ask me whatever happened to their singer? The joke being that they knew perfectly well what happened since I used to talk a lot about everything Queen. Just silliness between friends, nothing more.
In fact, when Greatest Hits III came out a lot of people asked me if I already knew about it because they knew I would be interested in news like that. One time when the Wembley concert was on the telly, several people phoned me within 10 minutes to let me know. Of course I was already watching it but I thanked them nonetheless..
So no, no mocking at all.