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.

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.

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.

No he was gay. I knew him as gay for the longest time and then years later he choose to be straight. I didn't know you could do that, but he does apparently.

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Your angry reply is cute. I simply didn't know he was bi. Almost like this is a TIL thread. You can move along and stir a pot somewhere else, internet troll.

Oh sigh, I didn't catch it first go round because I didn't really care that much but I knew so many human beings who came out as "bisexual" first me included because being gay all the way would have been too risque. I was watching...I think it was Clerks. Yeah, for sure it was Clerks. And 1/2 the jokes in there were homophobic. And the reason why I say this was because at the time to be gay was to be deformed, perverse, you were a broken hell-destined human being. At least if you had one leg in the door you'd be okay. But at the end of the day idk? I am not Freddie Mercury. I wasn't raised in any which white way and I for sure did not listen to Queen or the Beatles until I was an adult. I have zero skin in the game and I don't really care to speculate about dead celebrities, let alone celebrities on any large or real scale. But I will say that there was a ton of things that people had to go through back in the day that I think people had to hide or overcome through non-traditional pathways that would be less of an issue nowadays. Although it still is to some point, and I'd say it's probably a ripple effect of culture x toxic-masculinity.