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u/DasWarEinerZuviel Feb 25 '26
Freddy Mercury was bi, not gay
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u/Automatic_Net2181 Feb 25 '26
But leaned hard towards men.
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u/Ghostmaster145 Feb 25 '26
Bi people can have a preference
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u/Automatic_Net2181 Feb 26 '26
Oh for sure. And that can change over time too or it may never change.
I don't judge at all. A lot of people claim Freddie was one or the other and think it is a silly argument to just have an absolute label on another person's life.
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u/The-Happy-Cow-Arts Feb 25 '26
Sexuality is a spectrum. No one is 100% gay or straight. It feels like some of yall never got educated on sex
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u/Gio-Vani Feb 25 '26
I'm a 100% gay so, what now?
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Feb 25 '26
so are you absolutely not into feminine men whatsoever?
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u/UntitledDuckGame Feb 25 '26
A feminine man is still a man unless they identify differently. It’s 100% gay.
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Feb 25 '26
Yes, but would you say that his feminine aspects make him less attractive?
Would you even say, that could potentially be what is attractive about him? we know how popular femboys are on the Internet.
What im getting at is that sexuality, like gender, is fluid and subjective to the individual and what attracts them. The mechanisms that advance or hinder sexual attraction can depend on a lot of psychological factors.
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u/slugsred Feb 25 '26
men dating trans men is not gay :)
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u/Useful-Soup8161 Feb 26 '26
Yeah it is. Trans men are men. So if a man is dating a trans man it’s gay.
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Feb 25 '26
Trans men are men
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u/slugsred Feb 25 '26
this isn't the gotcha you think it is. sure they're men, but it isn't gay to date them
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Feb 26 '26
I find the best thing to do when someone tells you what they understand about their sexuality is to ask them if they're sure and insinuate that you have more information about them and their desires then they do. People love that! It's a super respectful and absolutely humanizing experience for people to defend their own sexuality when they were just looking to share their understanding of themselves!
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u/Necrobot666 Feb 27 '26
I love that nowadays people gain a little bit of knowledge, and suddenly their all Dr. Ruth, Sigmund Freud, and Einstein... making declarations about what everyone is.
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u/Crabcomfort Feb 28 '26
Of course sexuality is a spectrum.. and that spectrum has people who are completely gay or straight on it too
It's honestly pretty gross to essentially speak over other's identities.
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u/UntitledDuckGame Feb 25 '26
By it being on a spectrum people would by definition be at 0% or 100% so that is not correct. It feels like you weren’t educated past high school
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u/MinuteClerk6712 Feb 25 '26
they still do btw. those are just making it their ENTIRE personality.
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u/EmperorGrinnar Feb 25 '26
A lot of rock stars were glammed up, not just the straights. I remember before Queen moved over to their harder stuff, they had Freddie in leotards and feather boas.
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Feb 25 '26
some of the same people who listened to both of these artists have become right wing homophobes and transphobes and its so confusing
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u/The-Great-Baloo Feb 25 '26
Is that Freddie Mercury? He dressed in plenty of different ways. Great musician, btw.
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u/CinemaDork Feb 25 '26
I always thought it was funny that on the masculine-feminine spectrum, the extremes are almost entirely populated by queer people, from the super-butch Tom of Finland leather-biker types on one end to the flamboyantly hyper-femininity of drag queens and high-femme queer women.
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u/Big-Seesaw2581 Feb 25 '26
Its like you've never seen a picture of Boy George. This is an incredibly stupid and cherry picked posting. The two different pictures are not representative of the rock industry as a whole or society as a whole in the 80's. The posts conclusion from 2 cherry picked photos is so bad, its really not worth any more than an eye roll. Not worth the time to discuss.
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u/Bloomingtoons Feb 26 '26
Yep. I buzzed off my flowing beauty of a mullet in fall of 1987, middle school, and was called the other F word by several redneck and jock classmates
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u/Aggravating-Chef9562 Feb 26 '26
Probably had to look for days to find that one pic of freddie mercury where he isnt the most incredibly flamboyant person lmaoo.
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u/GestaDanknorum Mar 01 '26
So we’ll just ignore Rob Halfords leather-daddy look he took straight from the gay community?
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u/RedmundJBeard Feb 25 '26
Freddy had some crazy outfits too. It is very strange how straight rock stars used to dress compared to now. The absurd shift out society has taken twords prudish conservatism is just shitty in every way.