[Bohemenian Rhapsody] portrayed the sense of agony Freddie felt as an immigrant and as a minority, as a gay man. You were very close to Freddie when he was alive. Did you witness that agony and how he dealt with being a minority?
Yes, I think he had a dichotomy. In those days, things were very different and everything was hidden. I think he felt great confusion. He had some very good looking girlfriends because he had a very nice way about him, so yeah, he was very conflicted and I think that’s very accurate in the movie.
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My Lover at the times cousin hooked up with Freddie. John was a total bathhouse slut (his description) and said Freddie bottomed raw for hours. John subusquently passed from AIDS as did so many at the time. Soon after Freddie passed. We joked (gallows humor was a way of coping) that it was John that killed Freddie….
sswf
“if you know you have HIV & insist upon putting your fluids into another person, you are a murderer, drugs or not.”
except that if you did a little rudimentary research, you would know that being undetectable does indeed equate to being non-transmittable. That, along with the advent of PREP, makes the above statement rather silly sounding.
Lobby
sswf Unprotected sex should never be advocated for, even with the advent of prep. There is the likelihood of sex with individuals not taking their meds or the likelihood that the undetectable individual suddenly has unprotected sex with another detectable and re-infecting and transmitting the same. On PREP it still affects your liver and kidney, so its definitely harmful. HIV is still a serious disease as it was in the 80’s in the matter of anonymous sex. Its only manageable and better than those years, in the case of an ‘individual’ taking their meds and precautions. Remember even one with HIV can be re-infected with different strains of the virus or a resistant kind. So safe sex is still KING overall. Also the LGBT community has high rates of infection due to the bareback nonsense,extreme anonymous sex and prep delusion of your (Bulletproof).
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dbmcvey
You seem like a horrible person.
ingyaom
That’s rough.
Donston
This seems almost like an apology for borderline slighting that aspect of his life in that fairly basic, lame movie. However, while we know that Mercury had tons of homo sex for many years, surrounded himself with homosexual/sexually homo-leaning/homo-romantic/gay men for years and had a couple of legit same-sex relationships, we don’t really know much of anything about those relationships. And we will never get an anywhere near complete picture of the romantic, sexual, emotional, relationship contentment aspects of his orientation. Mercury never talked about it publicly, never wrote about it, and everyone close to him has stayed relatively hush when it comes to details.
Vince
That’s kind of what I thought since the band never seemed that cool on Freddies sexuality. Whitewash and all.
OzJosh
Yes, a totally self-serving, ass-covering comment in an attempt to cover the way the film totally re-wrote Mercury’s life. FM was in a relationship with a man for the last ten years of his life – that’s how “confused” and “conflicted” he was.
Archibald Meatpants
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dbmcvey
I really don’t think the heterosexual members of the band who spent years trying to deny he was gay are the ones who can tell us how he felt.