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hey, you know what i

fucking hate?

you know what really

gets my goat??

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?

fuck that.

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.

sonnet59s

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.”

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HOW THE FUCK HAVE I NEVER HEARD ANY OF THESE QUOTES

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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.

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Little final note: Say one, ONE word to blame Freddie’s death and I will FUCKING BLOCK YOU.

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Go ahead and punch me in the heart

via rogerscarx on insta

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I’m just going to weep now.

pillowprincesslexa

Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.

Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.

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Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???

pillowprincesslexa

If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.

There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.

adhoption

One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states are along the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.

toebeens

very helpful and informative graphic

peediequeenie

Coming from a place where 40C for two months summer weather is normal, I can tell you that it is much more bearable than a 32C day in UK when your home is covered in carpet and has huge triple glazed windows exposed to South that only partially open at a 45 degrees angle and no AC.

Plus the fact that some people is more used to a certain weather doesn’t change the fact that a global climate change has severe effects beyond “This is uncomfortable for me”.

x5vale

Let’s add two cents from Southern Europe. We might be used to hot summers with average temperature of 30/32 degrees Celsius. We are not used to have 40 degrees for days, at least not in Central and Northern Italy. The Alps are suffering, the Mediterranean see as well. When the colder air comes in, we have actual storms and sometimes tornados that are not normal in our areas.

So would be nice if you stopped with this “America is the centre of the world” attitude because honestly it’s not.

radio-nano

Could not have said it better. @x5vale

debdarkpetal

Froger!!! ❤

#queen #freddie mercury #roger taylor #friends

moustachefreddie

Freddie Mercury is truly a descendant of the gods

#look at that back

#baby roger #now 70 #happy birthday #it's his day

🎈HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROGER 🎈

#roger taylor #birthday #it's his day

mercurialbi

radio-nano

His eyes. 💛

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“In 1984, when Ruth Coker Burks was 25 and a young mother living in Arkansas, she would often visit a hospital to care for a friend with cancer.

During one visit, Ruth noticed the nurses would draw straws, afraid to go into one room, its door sealed by a big red bag. She asked why and the nurses told her the patient had AIDS.

On a repeat visit, and seeing the big red bag on the door, Ruth decided to disregard the warnings and sneaked into the room.

In the bed was a skeletal young man, who told Ruth he wanted to see his mother before he died. She left the room and told the nurses, who said, "Honey, his mother’s not coming. He’s been here six weeks. Nobody’s coming!”

Ruth called his mother anyway, who refused to come visit her son, who she described as a "sinner" and already dead to her, and that she wouldn't even claim his body when he died.

“I went back in his room and when I walked in, he said, "Oh, momma. I knew you’d come", and then he lifted his hand. And what was I going to do? So I took his hand. I said, "I’m here, honey. I’m here”, Ruth later recounted.

Ruth pulled a chair to his bedside, talked to him

and held his hand until he died 13 hours later.

After finally finding a funeral home that would his body, and paying for the cremation out of her own savings, Ruth buried his ashes on her family's large plot.

After this first encounter, Ruth cared for other patients. She would take them to appointments, obtain medications, apply for assistance, and even kept supplies of AIDS medications on hand, as some pharmacies would not carry them.

Ruth’s work soon became well known in the city and she received financial assistance from gay bars, "They would twirl up a drag show on Saturday night and here'd come the money. That's how we'd buy medicine, that's how we'd pay rent. If it hadn't been for the drag queens, I don't know what we would have done", Ruth said.

Over the next 30 years, Ruth cared for over 1,000 people and buried more than 40 on her family's plot most of whom were gay men whose families would not claim their ashes.

For this, Ruth has been nicknamed the 'Cemetery Angel'.”— by Ra-Ey Saley

macaronsandfries

She’s 60 now, she’s still doing activist and advocacy work, and working on a memoir.

#the world need more of this kind of people #angel

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bohemian rhapsody (1975)

- celebrating the iconic music video which reached 1 billion views on youtube

radio-nano

Congrats to Queen. So well deserved guys. It's nice to see that for once it is not some stupid hit song of the moment.

Freddie would be so proud.

#queen #bohemian rhapsody

x5vale

Knebworth Park, August 9, 1986.

Last time Queen played together. Last time of Freddie on stage.

💔💖

#queen #💔

sunnnymercury

REBLOG IF YOURE A QUEEN BLOG

lately lots of the queen blogs that i follow stop being a Queen blog or they don’t reblog Queen stuff as much as they did before, so if you’re still a die hard fan/stan please reblog this, i need more Queen in my life.