I get the issue of bi-erasure, but I don't think that's what's happening here. It's also odd that even though Winnie and Barbara were supposedly with Freddie around the same time, Winnie died of AIDS but she didn't. She didn't claim to have been with Freddie until after he died (like days after his death) and the time she claimed to be with him overlaps with his relationship with Winnie Kirchburger, even though she introduced Freddie and Winnie. Peters, it was a name he had already begun using in school. The only other reports of a female relationship are with Barbara Valentine, and I think that she was just riding on Freddie's fame coattails. Mercury, for his part, left behind the Farrokh identity to embrace his Freddie persona though according to classmates from St. He famously gave her his Garden Lodge mansion in his will and said, " In another life, we'd have been married and this would have been yours anyway." I think he loved her and continued to love her until his death because she accepted him for who he was and supported him without question, regardless of how much he may have hurt her by ending their engagement. The one where they try to conform to what their family wants them to be until the guilt and turmoil becomes too much. I have numerous gay friends that came from Byzantine Catholic families, and all of them had this relationship. I think his relationship with Mary Austin came when he was still struggling with his feelings. He cared so much about how they viewed him that his funeral was proceeded over by Zoroastrian priests even though he hadn't practiced the religion in decades. This kind of environment can really put you at conflict with yourself as you grow older and start to realize that you're attracted to the same sex, a "sin" which can get you permanently shunned from your family and community if you're discovered.īrian and Rodger as well as other people that were close to Freddie have talked about how he put a lot of effort into shielding his lifestyle from his parents. His parents practiced the Zoroastrian faith, a pre-islam religion that vehemently opposes homosexuality. leg of the tour that Freddie pursued his desire for gay sex in New York. He came from a strict religious upbringing. The book even narrows down the window of time in which Mercury may have been infected with HIV: It was during the U.S. Having been a fan since the early 90s and after watching every biography on Freddie/Queen that I have been able to get my hands on, I 100% believe without doubt that he was gay and not bisexual.
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