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TIL that Freddie Mercury swung both ways
He was all about those fat bottomed girls
It was a different time and she was more than likely a wig. Which pending I have my slang right (I'm thinking older school gay stuff where men used to marry women for society and then fuck around with men outside of the marriage) means she is a marriage of convenience. But really as far as I know she was basically his hag, and he loved her deeply. Gay remorse stuff - but sometimes people get tired of being "weird and different" and wish they could just be "normal" and things could just "work they way they were 'supposed' to work". And yeah, he could have been wickedly bisexual. And bisexuals - you have every right to exist (and I think there's more of you than are accounted for. But honestly, it used to be a constant back in the day and I have met a handful of actual wigs who love their gay ass husbands but understand that theirs are a marriage of convenience. At least, the majority of them do.
(p.s. - My gal and I actually think Robert Preston might have been bisexual. But only he *and anyone he slept with if he did sleep with both sides* would ever know. But he for sure was a swell advocate none-the-less. And I don't think being a song and dance man instantly makes you a sister. Likewise, he might just understand the idea of loving a man and a woman on equal terms as I always joke sexuality ends up having nothing to do with who you could fuck but more so who you could love. But that's my hot take. Also those two guys from ROPE(!) that Hitchcock flick were gay as hell. And I think they were billed as bisexual. And I think Hitchcock was probably of the lifestyle too, but eh. Who knows?)
(p.p.s. - Oh shit wifey said wigs is for dykes and beards is for gays. Hahahaha! She laughed her ass off at me =P!)
Freddie was 100% pan. It wasn't a relationship of convenience. That's on record, actually. I recall an interview where he said that she was probably of the greatest loves of his life.
Freddie wasn't gay, straight, bi, etc... He was Freddie.
there are some hints!
Gay men always sang in a straight way, hinted in a straight way did all sorts of stuff in a straight way because it's what sells, it was what was expected and it was what was normal. Have you seen a gay man's ass? They're far more fantastic than any woman's. They just do it right =P! Mind you, I'm a dyke, so this is me speaking out of love. But a simple place to point would be Labi Siffre. Who is also from the same time period and area abouts. He sang about women all the damn time, but that man had two partners he loved very dearly and neither were as such. While I can't point one way or another I will say not only was it a different time but even within the gay scene it was a different culture. People did what they needed to do, or thought they should do - in order to cope. And for sure when I came out I was still rolling through waves of it too. It's why I am glad queers nowadays (not as a whole but more so than ever before) can just be big old fagolas and what have you. But there's still more work to be done. I haven't really been a part of THE CULTURE for a min, so it's all kinda foggy. But I will say in general, for sure I have seen some real "cover-up" stories for people just trying to do what's right. But either way you're entitled to your opinion and I am entitled to mine. I don't really give a ploop about Freddie Mercury as a whole other than that man could sing. Cause he could. S'all.