Queen’s Brian May says Freddie Mercury would not have liked queer label
Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor have opened up about Freddie Mercury’s sexuality in a new interview. On 19 June, music enthusiasts were treated to Adam Lambert’s new documentary, Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud, which premiered on ITV.
Through a series of candid interviews with MNEK, Erasure’s Andy Bell, and Skunk Anasie’s Skin, the former American Idol star dives into the decades-long fight British LGBTQIA+ artists have endured for equality in the music industry.
The synopsis adds: “Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud is a powerful tribute to the resilience and revolutionary spirit of LGBTQ+ artists who have transformed the music world while fighting for equality.” In addition to the aforementioned artists, the documentary also features an in-depth interview with Queen members May and Taylor, who spoke about Mercury’s incredible impact and how he would have reacted to being called queer. “The vocabulary has changed a lot.
Queer was a word you wouldn’t want to use. I would never have used it to Freddie, and he would have been upset if we had,” Brian explained to Lambert, per The Sunday Times. “He would have said: ‘I’m not queer, I’m normal, darling,’ because queer meant odd and weird.
