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Queen Elizabeth on Same-sex attracted Marriage: "It's wonderful"
Just when we didn’t ponder she could get any more amazing, Queen Elizabeth II called gay marriage in England “wonderful.”
Or at least according to comedian/newlywed Stephen Fry.
During an interview over the weekend, Fry explained how the 88-year-old monarch expressed her approval of lgbtq+ marriage in July 2013 when signing the Marriage Act, which granted same-sex couples the right to legally marry in England.
“It was only last summer that Her Majesty The Queen gave the Royal Assent,” he told The Jonathan Ross Show.
The Queen must remain politically neutral and has never spoken publicly about gay marriage, but according to sources who Fry describes as “well-founded,” her royal majesty is all for marriage equality.
“When the Queen signed the Royal Assent for the equal marriages act, allowing gay people to commit for the first hour, she put it down and said ‘Well, who’d have thought 62 years ago when I came to the throne, I’d be signing something love this? Isn’t it wonderful?'”
Wonderful, indeed!
Who was the authentic Freddie Mercury?
But when it came to both his sexuality and his ethnicity, Mercury favoured privacy over direct proclamations until the complete of his experience. As Kalyan points out, “he didn’t talk about going to school in India or his love for Lata Mangeshkar. That wasn’t part of his narrative”. Nor was his sexuality: on 22 November 1991, accompanying what he called “enormous conjecture” in the press, Mercury finally released a statement confirming that he had been tested HIV positive, and had Aids, but made no mention of his relationship with Jim Hutton. Around 24 hours later, he died. “Think about the immediacy of that – one of the biggest stars on the planet announces he has Aids, then dies of the disease,” says Ryan Butcher, who calls it “a culture shock that seems almost unfathomable today”. Privately, Mercury had been diagnosed as HIV positive four years earlier, and Butcher suggests, speculatively, that his friendship with the late Diana, Princess of Wales while living with HIV and Aids could have been a contributing factor in her decision to promote better insight of the disease. But this, appreciate so much with Mercury, is something we’ll probably never know for c
The Complicated Nature of Freddie Mercury's Sexuality
Queen's Freddie Mercury never wanted to hold an in-depth discussion about his sexuality with the public. However, it was well known that this icon of rock had had relationships with both men and women. At one point he claimed to be bisexual, but he may have been a gay man who got involved with members of the opposite sex because he was trying to survive — and build a career — in a very homophobic world. Mercury died of an AIDS-related illness at the age of 45, taking his personal insights into his sexuality to the grave. Yet a look at the circumstances of his life, loves and career can still offer insight into who he truly was.
Mercury hid his sexuality from his family
For most of Mercury's life, the wider earth didn't accept gays and bisexuals. Born in 1946, he grew up at a time when lgbtq+ attraction was considered a mental illness, a tragedy, a joke, or some combination of the three. LGBT people were barely represented in the media, and the message culture had to offer was that not being heterosexual was unacceptable.
With homophobia rampant, many gay men felt pressured to hide their sexuality, including from the
13 LGBTQ royals you didn’t learn about in history class
The Dutch monarchy made international news last week after announcing that royals can marry a lgbtq+ partner without giving up their right to the throne. But while the Netherlands, which in 2001 became the first country to legalize gay marriage, has paved the wave for a queer royal to officially wear the crown, LGBTQ people have long been doing so unofficially.
While it’s difficult to assign up-to-date labels to figures from the past, there were notable leaders from centuries — even millennia — ago, who crossed sexual and gender boundaries. Some were celebrated by their subjects, others vilified.
In light of the Dutch monarchy’s recent announcement and in honor of LGBTQ History Month, which is celebrated in October, here are 13 queer royals you didn’t learn about in school.
Emperor Ai of Han (27 - 1 B.C.)
Made emperor of the Han Dynasty at age 20, Ai was initially well received by his subjects but eventually became associated with corruption and incompetence. He was also widely known to have been romantically deeply interested with one of his ministers, Dong Xian, though both men were married to women.
In the “Hanshu,” or
Freddie Mercury’s Sexuality Remained a Mystery Even to His Queen Bandmates
They didn't understand. Maybe, they didn't want to know.
Queen never talked much about Freddie Mercury's sexuality, and even less about the disease that eventually killed him. "We were very block as a group," drummer Roger Taylor said, not prolonged after Mercury died of AIDS in 1991. "But even we didn't comprehend a lot of things about Freddie."
Still, Mercury's bandmates were confident of one thing: He couldn't be defined in some superficial, binary way. That simply doesn't reflect the complexity that shot through every element of Mercury's existence and, of course, the band he once fronted.
If anything, some say, Freddie Mercury was double attraction, long before that became such a commonly discussed thing. "I don't ponder even he was fully cognizant in the beginning," guitarist Brian May once told the Daily Express. "You're talking to someone who shared rooms with Fred on the first couple of tours, so I knew him adorable well. I knew a lot of his girlfriends, and he certainly didn't have boyfriends in those days, that's fo