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HE'S GORGEOUS I CAN'T 😭😭😭

i think this might be my favorite brian outfit.

THE duo 🩵❤️‍🔥

the way john deacon is such a legend and i don't get how people don't really acknowledge that more???

like, my man wrote fire songs, could play more instruments than i have books in my apartment (i am a very avid reader) and also just couldn't be bothered™? he's never even close to giving a fuck, he tagged along with queen because he thought it would be fun and didn't expect them to blow up, he's actually freaky and had no qualms sharing that publicly on more than one occasion, finished his degree with basically standing ovations while playing for queen, fucked right off the face of the earth whenever he felt like it, had vibes going during every single queen concert (having the time of his life, dancing queen) in his own little universe.

love for john richard deacon, born on august 19th, 1951 cause he's THE icon and legend and moment 💕❤️

all pics from pinterest!

Y'all think Brian writing "You can get inside Freddie's mouth, if you so desire," was unintentionally awkward. I think it was a fully intentional dirty joke, we are not the same.

good old-fashioned loverboy

asyablumhagen

Queen: Brian May fanart

Freddie y John 🥰 y Brian

Queen in Japan

Another post I want to dedicate to deakys birthday my favorite part of liar when John sings the all day long part forever be iconic ❤️

Queen band fanart: Roger Taylor

They're glam 😏✨💅🏼

Roger “known for the hugeness of my gong” Taylor

there’s a crazy shitposting beatles community on this website that i appreciate reading but ive been disappointed at the complete lack of an insane queen community. like freddie mercury was a MESS he did so much bullshit like the time he wanted to get with jim hutton so he called jim’s apartment over and over again at the wee hours of the night until jim’s old lady landlord fucking evicted him and freddie invited jim to live at his big old london mansion… why aren’t people talking about this guy. rip freddie mercury you would’ve LOVED checking his snap score to see if he’s ignoring you.

(jim ended up living with freddie from 1985 until he died in 1991, they exchanged rings and were husbands) (here’s them on boxing day in their matching shirts) (so i guess being crazy works sometimes)

Queen Music Videos

↪ Keep Yourself Alive vs Liar

(But which is which?)

Is this a prince? 🥹🙏🏼❤️

Stockholm 1986. 📸 Göran Lindsjöö

It's A Hard Life!!!!

I finally watched the yellow submarine movie a few weeks ago! 🌈🎼✨☀️

Freddie Mercury was bisexual though

Nope, this is false! 🏳️‍🌈 Freddie was gay, there’s a lot of misinformation out there about his non-existent affairs with women, and much of it can be chalked up to a shit biographer named Lesley Ann Jones (aka my arch nemesis).

I've been deeply fascinated by Freddie Mercury and studying his personal life for years and years so excuse the following infodump (or jump in for a queer history lesson!)

Contrary to popular belief, Freddie was an out gay man. “Gay as a daffodil, my dear!” He’s clearly stated his sexuality in a handful of interviews; “I’ve done all that but I’m gay. Mary was my last woman.” (This interview was removed from youtube but you can find it mentioned in Freddie Mercury: A Life, in His Own Words which is a compilation of his actual quotes from interviews over the years.) Those statements got buried from the media in favor of promoting his more promiscuous quotes like "Darling, I'm doing everything with everybody." (Journalists LOVE to include this quote when talking about his AIDS...) He did purposely retain an aura of mystique around his sexuality, especially because it was much safer (trendy, even) for musicians to flirt with bisexuality than to be homosexual back then.

Here's a quote from Peter "Phoebe" Freestone, Freddie's personal assistant of twelve years, close friend, and "agony aunt" in his memoir, Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Knew Him Best:

"When the interview appeared, it was half the length that he imagined it would be. When confronted, Judy Wade said that it would have been impossible to have printed the whole text. She said she was holding back for his benefit, not for hers. Admissions such as, "I'm just going for a line and I'll be back in half-a-minute," would not have done anyone any good. However, she was fully prepared to underline in her second sentence that admission of being a fully 'out' gay man, although this does not lay the later myth which was popular which claimed that Freddie had never admitted his gayness."

Freddie's close friend Thor Arnold, a gay man and member of the "New York Daughters" (Freddie's gay friend group in NYC, of course Freddie was "mother!") corrected misinformation when fans on the Queenzone forum argued that Freddie was bi:

"Freddie NEVER tried to hide to his friends that he was TOTALLY gay. In his industry, he had to hide it to some extent although as I have said before, he certainly gave clues. This is the same man who came up with the name QUEEN for his band. This is the man who dressed very sexually, ambiguously 'glam' up until 1980. This is the man who threw an Easter bonnet party and had us all create Easter hats. This is the man who used the term darling (or Dahling) more than he used proper names, and renamed his friends with old actresses names. These things are doubtful for a straight or bi man. Many gays don't even act like this... I've never seen Freddie look twice at a woman but I have seen him look 3 or 4 times at an attractive man and say, 'Thor, Thor... Oh just look at him... Just gorgeous. I'd love some of THAT' We were genuine friends of Freddie and he would never hide that he was really bi. FREDDIE WAS A GAY MAN through and through...everyone...please get used to it."

LAJ, the biographer I previously mentioned, worked VERY hard to straight-wash Freddie in her book by erasing his gay relationships. She was obsessed with his relationship with Mary Austin and is the main reason modern journalists consider Freddie to have been in profound, romantic love with her his whole life. In reality, they dated for a few years in the 70s and remained close friends after they split up (because Freddie was having affairs with his boyfriend). However, he did rely on her as his "beard" to keep up with appearances for the press.

LAJ completely skipped over Freddie's first official boyfriend, saying it was "a covert fling with a young theatre." His name was David Minns. Freddie loved him so much he left Mary to be with him. They were in a serious relationship for three years.

If you're a Freddie fan, you're familiar with Mary's story of him coming out to her, saying "I think I'm bisexual," and her response, "I think you're gay." This story is probably not the truth. Mary has been very inconsistent with her story of how Freddie came out to her.

Another version she told for BBC Radio:

"I don’t know what sparked the conversation. But I remember standing in the kitchen and he was trying desperately to articulate how he was feeling, and his lifestyle and I just said, 'so you are telling me you're gay?' And he just smiled and 'we'll take it as a yes, you know, we'll leave it at that.' And that was it, it has been a long road getting to that point."

Honestly, I am a bit mistrustful of Mary Austin's intentions in general. If you're curious as to why, this post is a good primer on the ways she might have betrayed Freddie's wishes, namely being cruel to his chosen family after his passing.

Freddie only had one other girlfriend before Mary in college, Rosemary Pearson. When asked about Freddie on ITV's This Morning show, she said that he was more interested in her male friends than in her, and she suspected then that he was gay. This was in the 60s.

LAJ refers to his relationships with women throughout her book, but she doesn't list any names. That's because they don't exist. I could name at least seven of Freddie's boyfriends off of the top of my head. Minnsy. Joe Fanelli. Tony Bastin. Vince the Barman. Bill Reid. Winnie Kirchberger. And of course, his husband Jim Hutton, whom he spent the last six years of his life with.

There is one name that LAJ has chosen to platform and exaggerate her importance, and that's German pornstar Barbara Valentin. If you've heard of her, you might think she had a relationship with Freddie in the 80s, you might have heard the story where he had wild threesomes with her, that they lived together, that he even proposed to her. Not one word of it is true. Freddie hung around Barbara during his time in Munich because she was his 'in' to gay clubs and cocaine dealers. She also served as his English translator and conveniently, another beard for the press.

Not a single person in Freddie’s life has ever corroborated that Freddie and Barbara were anything but friends. As for the claim they lived together, according to Peter Freestone:

In the event, Freddie never actually lived there although Barbara fulfilled a huge role in Freddie’s life at that time… Freddie became very disillusioned when with more and more frequency articles were appearing in the German press’s gossip columns… about the relationship between him and Barbara… After one article claiming to have knowledge of him and Barbara getting married, Freddie concluded that it could only be Barbara who was providing the information.

(He was actually living with his Bavarian boyfriend of the time, Winnie Kirchberger.) Freddie stopped seeing Barbara after he found out she was gossiping about being his lover and these stories started appearing in the newspapers. Barbara continued these lies after Freddie's death, making up ludicrous lies like how Freddie tried to kill her by smothering her with a pillow?? She also claimed that he put her at risk of contracting AIDS by having sex with her after his diagnosis in 1987, which is the lie that burns the most. Freddie stopped having sex altogether before his diagnosis because he was terrified of contracting it. Before there was any information of how it was transferred, he showered compulsively. There is such a fucked up narrative that Freddie threw caution to the wind and wasn't careful during the epidemic, that it somehow fits this twisted narrative that his death was a result of his immoral lifestyle. That's the pervasive homophobia that stained the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic.

LAJ is one of those biographers who publishes their books after the celebrity has died, so they wouldn’t be able to deny the information being written in the book. So if there's anything to learn here, is that you can't always trust a biography!

Anyway, Freddie was gay as a daffodil my dears, and he deserved better.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Queen (Band) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jim Hutton/Freddie Mercury Characters: Freddie Mercury, Jim Hutton, Freddie Mercury's Cat Miko, Freddie Mercury's Cat Tiffany, Freddie Mercury’s Cat Oscar Additional Tags: Fluff, Love, Love Confessions, Husbands, Marriage Proposal, Wedding Rings, daffodils, Jim and Freddie Ruby Anniversary, Falling In Love, Romantic Fluff, Romantic Gestures, You're My Home, JimercuryRuby Summary:

Freddie carefully tries to surprise his husband, but Jim leaves him speechless.

Happy 40th Anniversary, Jim and Freddie 💕

Dedicated to @your-one-day-ecstasy.

Prompt: Red String of Fate

@jimercuryweek

One Year Of Love - Jimercury Ruby Anniversary

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64100578

I wrote it in my native language, I hope you don't mind :)

@jimercuryweek

QUEEN IN DRAG JUMPSCARE

Roger wearing bowtie, y'all

Roger and injuries

from when he started drumming to now

blisters on the fingers and bloody hands (probably looking like this)

(from Rufus’ IG (x) - thanks @bohemiansweede​

1960 (ca.) ‘During one long summer Roger was shot in the back of the leg as the gang scampered through fields pursued by a zealous farmer’s son. “It was only a pellet but it left a bit of a mark,” said Geoff (Moore).‘ ~ from Mark Hodgkinson’s book “Queen - The Early Years”. (thanks @quirkysubject​)

1967 (February) car accident in Cornwall (x)

1974 fell down the stage and knocked himself out (x)

1974 hit on the head with a full can of lager (x)

1974 (November) severely bruised his foot when in anger he tried to kick down the panel in the dressing room (x)

1975 (Hammersmith) “Roger Taylor was really sick – he looks pretty good, but he was feeling really bad. I think he threw up afterwards, but you wouldn’t know [from watching].” - Brian May [x]

1976 (March) cuts his foot after missing a step while getting off the stage. (x)

76-03-22 Tokyo (blood on Roger’s trousers???) (x)

1976 got blown off his drum stool while filming the video for TYMD… (x)

Not sure when those happened and if the black-out bit is the same as the TYMD accident.

Also, thanks @let-roger-get-a-lunch​ for mentioning the many car accidents. We are not sure if he ever got hurt though.

Can you all help me complete the list … please?

Happy 40th Anniversary, Jim and Freddie!

March 23rd, 2025 marks 40 years since the day Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton met at the London gay bar, Heaven! That makes this their

Ruby Anniversary!!

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We wanted to celebrate this special occasion with a little event! (Don't worry, the full Jimercury week will still be held in June!)

Prompts:

AU: Red String of Fate

Song: The Great Pretender

Quote: "There's no place like home."

Submit them here on Tumblr and tag us @jimercuryweek and use the hashtag #JimercuryRuby!!

Brian doing That™

Bonus:

Japan, 1976.

📷 Koh Hasebe .