that in most of the documentaries that include paul gambaccini, they use his story when he asked freddie, “have you adjusted your behavior in light of the new disease?” and freddie answers, “darling, my attitude is ‘fuck it.’ i’m doing everything with everyone.” but they always CUT HIM OFF THERE.
he adds, “and i also thought, that even though he’s putting up this great front… probably in the back of his mind, he thinks it’s too late.”
but they never include that part. i wonder why. hmm, is it perhaps that they’re demonizing freddie’s sexuality & making it seem like he got aids because he was too indulgent?
fuckthat.
tens of millions of innocent people lost their lives not because they were careless, but because the government was careless. i’m sick of this homophobic shit.
it’s so unfair. there are a lot of instances of freddie discussing AIDS which i didn’t know existed until i read freddie mercury: his life in his own words. he was terrified of it and drastically modified his lifestyle in response. he wasn’t oblivious and he wasn’t cavalier.
“I pray I’ll never get AIDS. So many friends have it. Some have died, others won’t last much longer. I’m terrified that I’ll be the next. Immediately after I have sex I think, “Suppose that was the one? Suppose the virus is now in my body?” I jump in the shower and try to scrub myself clean although I know it’s useless.”
“I was totally devastated when I heard about my friends who have died from AIDS. It brought the seriousness of the illness home to me. I learnt the hard way. When you’re young it is so much harder. I was thinking the other day, we were lucky to have sown our wild oats when we did, but they are just starting out. It is something the young have got to get to grips with.”
“I used to live for sex but now I’ve changed. I’ve stopped going out, stopped the nights of wild partying. I’ve almost become a nun. It’s amazing, I thought sex was a very important thing to me but now I realize I’ve just gone completely the other way. Once, I was extremely promiscuous, it was excess in every direction, but now I’m totally different. I have stopped all that and I don’t miss that kind of life. Everything is fine.”
“You see, I’m one of those people that can go from black to white. I don’t like intermediary measures. It’s quite easy for me to completely give up things. I can give up alcohol at the drop of a hat. AIDS has frightened me to death and so I’ve just stopped having sex. I just like titillation now. I’m into titillation. It’s much more fun. What more can I do? I’ve stopped having sex and started growing tulips!”
“You can’t expect people to just abstain from sex forever. I think the message of safe sex is essential and crucial. Anyone who sleeps around should have an AIDS test.”
“It is a very, very serious thing we are dealing with. I think people have to wait now, better times are ahead. This thing about safe sex is all very worthwhile, but you can still have fun. You can’t expect people to just give up sex. People get freaked, they think they have AIDS and they shoot themselves, and then people find out that they didn’t have it after all. People should be careful, but not paranoid.”
“We’re living with it now and it’s there, on your doorstep, and you’d be a fool to say that you haven’t heard of it. You can’t get away from it. But if you get into the nitty-gritty of it, there are friends of mine who have died of AIDS. It’s devastating.”
“How much more can one harp on about it? I am not the saviour of the fucking thing! I like those television ads where it says everybody is equal with AIDS– like money doesn’t mean anything. AIDS is not prejudiced. AIDS is not prejudiced about who you are or what you do. It gets you!”
“Before, I was very greedy. I was promiscuous, that’s true, but I’ve stopped all that because practicality came into it. You know what I’m talking about. It’s up to the individual. Most people live by sex, but a lot of people can’t do without it. A lot of people just have it as a pastime. I don’t want to suddenly say that sex is boring or overrated because that would be farcical– having just said that I was very promiscuous, that would be a contradiction.”
HOW THE FUCK HAVE I NEVER HEARD ANY OF THESE QUOTES
THIS IS IMPORTANT. The media loves to characterize Freddie as this wild and uncontrollable sex machine, when all this time he was just a terrified and HUMAB LGBQT+ man. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
not being really overweight but not being thin is a weird place because you never look quite as good as your friends and you’re in that spot that everyone tells you “you’re not fat!” but doesn’t want to say you’re thin and no matter if your weight shifts you always sort of look the same to yourself and in some situations you can hide your appearance but in others its alarmingly obvious, and buying clothes is like a luck of the draw as to if you’ll look thin or huge because it feels like there isn’t an in between
if you don’t currently have any weed, you’re so fucking brave, hang in there, i’ve been where you are and i promise it gets better, you’ll have weed again soon, i’m blessing you all with that energy
stop making fun of things that people enjoy!!! let them find happiness in pumpkin spice lattes, ocs, boy bands, whatever!! let them live their lives without fear of someone taking away the things that make them happy!!!!
My absolute favorite thing about being a Capricorn is when people argue about which zodiac sign is the best. I remind them that in the history of mankind there has only been one human who was absolutely perfect in every way. They think about it, then concede saying “you’re right Jesus was a Capricorn wasn’t he?” And I say “yes he was, but I was referring to David Bowie”
