that's one huge dangling modifier you got there, submitter

albo: that's one huge dangling modifier you got there, submitter

That catch is a bright spot in my increasingly crappy day. First time I smiled in about 3 hours.

albo: that's one huge dangling modifier you got there, submitter

I think submitter's just happy to see you.

That moustache wasn't so gay back in 1975.

/ok, maybe a little

It was the 70s. That's not really surprising.

Who?

Freddy Mercury was as gay as a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

albo: that's one huge dangling modifier you got there, submitter

*ding ding ding*
WIN!

"Wait? He's GAY?!" Fred Phelps told the Washington post. He continued, "But I love 'We Will Rock You'!".


/he'll have to burn his queen collection.

Yes, well, Brian was much too busy being the reincarnation of a Baroque composer and pondering the properties of quasars to notice.

The guitarist wasn't flamboyant or meterosexual or moustachioed? Them's some slanderous words there, Betty.

my gaydar is pre-soviet, fifties technology and rarely functions correctly and even i could smell the aids on freddie.

And the story had a sponsored ad from The Wiggles:



Nice . . .

Metrosexual? I remember seeing and interview once with someone who said he witnessed a parade of young men in sailor suits going into Mercury's dressing room and he said "That man was gay to level I'd never reach."

Elton John said that.

That said probably one of the greatest perfomers evar. Seeing him at Live Aid one of the great moments in rock history.

Yeah right! Next you'll tell me that Rob Halford is gay.

Hmm, a guy with a song titled "my Fairy king" ghey, Inconceivable!

My strongest memory of Brian May was some idiot on acid at a party trying to convince me that Brian May was the greatest guitarist that ever lived.

/unconvinced

It's hard to get any thinking done when you have a penis in your mouth...

djmed: my gaydar is pre-soviet, fifties technology and rarely functions correctly and even i could smell the aids on freddie.

Photoshop contest! Soviet gaydar!

I just figured he was a bit feminine.

To be fair, the mustache was quite widespread amongst all races and class at the time. My dad had a huge push broom.


/not that there's anything wrong with that

wh0mprat: Photoshop contest! Soviet gaydar!

DA!

Yes! Queen Thread!

Bohemian Rhapsody (new window)

I was only born in 1972, and I think I knew Freddie Mercury was gay when I was 10.

Dear Mr. May:





.... is not good for you.

"Queen"

need i say more?

Uh huh.

I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

DrForrester: My strongest memory of Brian May was some idiot on acid at a party trying to convince me that Brian May was the greatest guitarist that ever lived.

/unconvinced

And I STILL hold it to be true!
.
.
not really, but certainly one of themost under-rated of his era.

vernonFL: Yeah right! Next you'll tell me that Rob Halford is gay.

Rob Halford Gay?

Next you'll try to tell me Liberace was gay!

"Nobody thought I was gay, either"

DemoKnite: To be fair, the mustache was quite widespread amongst all races and class at the time. My dad had a huge push broom.


/not that there's anything wrong with that

I remember him telling me that when I was cinching up his leather pants.

Not news.

It was realized in the 1980s that Freddie Mercury was gay and the rest of the band just ignored it. With all the flack Elton John was getting, Freddie was terrified of the papparazi.

Brian May's mustache has been gone for some time, unless he grew it back within the last few months, which he should never have done.

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of an enormously popular rock band in the 70s and 80s. He was farking men, women, animals, inanimate objects; everything was fair game.

DemoKnite: To be fair, the mustache was quite widespread amongst all races and class at the time. My dad had a huge push broom.


/not that there's anything wrong with that

How huge was it?!

/hint, hint
//nudge, nudge

Brian May has to be yanking our chains.

Did anyone else find it hilarious at the time that Brian May's biggest solo song just after Freddie took his six-foot-snooze was called "Too Much Love Will Kill You"?

/Love = unprotected buttsecks with randoms

Well despite dressing like a gay biker, Judas Priest fans did not acknowledge that he was gay until Rob Halford announced it himself. Rob Halford said when he started dressing that way figuring he would get called out on it, instead metal fans started dressing like gay bikers. Thus the leather, chains, spikes, and studds look of heavy metal was born.

/ Judas Priest, greatest band evar!

wh0mprat: Freddy Mercury was as gay as a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

...gay as a bag of dicks.

That's what I get for trying to multitask and post. Please completely ignore the second sentence of my previous post as it's totally stupid.

Freddie grew the mustache because of a mandibular deformation. He looked into surgery to fix it, but was told it could change his singing voice, so he ixnay'ed that idea.

And of course, ALL flamboyant music stars of the 1970s HAD to be gay, like all of Kiss, the Rolling Stones, etc.

I have a Brian May Guild guitar and a Vox AC 30.

DrForrester: My strongest memory of Brian May was some idiot on acid at a party trying to convince me that Brian May was the greatest guitarist that ever lived.

/unconvinced

He's like Alex Van Halen on drums: Not the best, but you can instantly recognize his style.

The_Original_Roxtar: "Queen"

need i say more?

That is a good point. Maybe someone should raise it to Brian, I doubt he ever thought of that.

well...

"When I shared a room with him on tour in the early days I can assure you it was girls who generally stayed overnight."

so if he's banging away at girls...i think anyone would be hard pressed to think someone was gay. it's only recently that we point people out for being "metro" and label them as gay and call them 'deniers' if they still date girls.

DrForrester:My strongest memory of Brian May was some idiot on acid at a party trying to convince me that Brian May was the greatest guitarist that ever lived.

Frank Zappa once said he thought Brian May was the best rock guitarist around (Hendrix was dead at the time.) Brian May is quite the awesome player.

DrForrester: My strongest memory of Brian May was some idiot on acid at a party trying to convince me that Brian May was the greatest guitarist that ever lived.

/unconvinced

To be fair, Queen always sounded a lot better when I was on acid...Queen II was meant for tripping

He's like Alex Van Halen on drums: Not the best, but you can instantly recognize his style.

Plus that sound he got with the stereo, top boost, dimed AC 30 is pretty recognizable. I think he's a great musician. There's a lot more to music than virtuosity.