On 3/5/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Well "I'm as gay as a daffofil, my dear", in the NME (1974, the year
1. Yes but he was kidding!!!11! 2. Yes but gay meant bi!!!1!1! 3. No that interview was a conspiracy!111111111111111!!!!
of their breakthrough album) is pretty definitive. He was gay if you really needed to know, and if you didn't, he had a convenient girlfriend. If people want to quibble over "gay" and "bisexual" my observations are that (1) they need to get a life and (2) I've had sex with "straight" guys and I'm pretty sure that a lot of "gay" guys have sex with women.
Right. And I just don't see the problem with saying "Mercury was either bi, gay, or straight depending on who was asked, and when." in the article, possibly giving a few sources. Or even just avoiding the labelling and saying "It is uncontested that Mercury had sex with both men and women at various times". Similarly for the question of whether he was "Persian", just stating the facts then saying "Whether this makes him Persian is a question of definition that has often been disputed."
But some peope really lerve their labels.
Steve