Is queen a gay band

Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor have opened up about Freddie Mercury's sexuality in a new interview.

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That simply doesn't reflect the complexity that shot through every element of Mercury's life and, of course, the band he once fronted. Watch Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' Video. Classmates at the St. Peter's Church of England School in Panchgani, India, an elite boarding school where the young Tanzania-born Farrokh Bulsara had begun school at age eight, apparently always suspected he might be gay.

Even the decision to call his band Queen was meant to provoke, to color everything they did with a whisper of mystery: Is he or isn't he? Queen never talked much about Freddie Mercury 's sexuality, and even less about the disease that eventually killed him.

The Queen frontman and rock icon was involved with both men and women but never publicly confirmed his sexuality, a decision that may have been prompted by the period he lived in. I knew a lot of his girlfriends, and he certainly didn't have boyfriends in those days, that's for sure.

It was a convenient little place to be. Queen’s Influence and Support for the LGBTQ+ Community Freddie Mercury’s impact on diversity and acceptance through music is an essential part of Queen’s legacy. Needless to say, times were different in Normally, it would have been, 'Oh, God, you know, it's just ghastly.

I think there was a slight suspicion but it never occurred to me that he was gay. His outfits were wildly androgynous; his onstage persona incorporated a theatrical sense of camp. May added that Mercury revealed to Queen that he also liked men only "years after it was obvious.

Some argue this shift was only a belated manifestation of feelings that were always there, rather than any kind of sudden realization. It worked: Questions about just how Mercury might be portrayed dogged the Queen docu-drama Bohemian Rhapsodyeven before it was released to theaters.

Still, Mercury's bandmates were confident of one thing: He couldn't be defined in some superficial, binary way. Mercury kept to himself, perhaps as a defense mechanism but also because he liked to cultivate a sense of mystery.

May, on the other hand, vehemently disagreed. His unapologetic expression of his sexuality and gender fluidity challenged stereotypes and inspired LGBTQ+ representation in the music industry. If anything, some say, Freddie Mercury was bisexual, long before that became such a commonly discussed thing.

But Freddie had this habit of saying, 'Well, I suppose you realize this, that or the other,' in this very offhand way — and he did say at some point, 'I suppose you realize I've changed in my private life? Tracks like "Bohemian Rhapsody," which so longed for an unreachable freedom, seemed to be hints as to what may have been deep inside his heart.

The Bulsaras eventually ended up in Middlesex, near London, after the family's homeland — then called Zanzibar — was consumed in a revolution in There, Farrokh Bulsara was permanently left behind for Freddie Mercury, though every contradiction was in place from the start.

At this point, the two were selling odds and ends at the famously bohemian Kensington Market, still hoping music could one day pay the bills. It was okay.