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.
I NEVER HAVE HEARD OF THIS AND EVERYBODY NEEDS TO READ IT. I MEAN EVERYBODY.
I swear people that yell about Freeze Peach have no idea what it means. If you provoke someone and then they act on that provication, then it’s on you, not them.
ALWAYS REBLOG NAZIS GETTING PUNCHED OUT
Law does not equal morality. Laws are literally made up. It was illegal to protect Jews in Germany during ww2. Thankfully, people think outside of the law sometimes.
If you’re willing to deal with the consequences Anything is Possible even punching a Nazi
dude seeing these Mega high quality images of the surface of mars that we now have has me fucked up. Like. Mars is a place. mars is a real actual place where one could hypothetically stand. It is a physical place in the universe. ITS JUST OUT THERE LOOKING LIKE UH IDK A REGULAR OLD DESERT WITH LOTS OF ROCKS BUT ITS A WHOLE OTHER PLANET?
LIKE THIS JUST LOOKS LIKE IT COULD BE A PERSON’S BACKYARD. LIKE YEA A LITTLE DUSTY MAYBE THERE WAS A SANDSTORM BUT THAT’S COOL I’M JUST GONNA WALK DOWN TO THE STORE P S Y C H YOU’RE ON MARS BICH!
i hate to be rude and intrude on this post but we have decent pictures of the surface Venus too!
Not a single human footstep on mars, wish it would stay that way…
As U.S. President, George H.W. Bush, among other things, cut AIDS research funding, banned HIV-Positive people from entering the country, encouraged “behavioral change” to the exclusion of comprehensive sexual education, and extended/expanded many of the murderous AIDS policies of Ronald Reagan, for whom Bush served as Vice President. By the end of 1993, over 194,000 HIV/AIDS related deaths had been reported in the United States. Approximately 133,000 of which were during Bush’s one term as President. Between 1987 and 1992, the median age at death among men in the United States that died from HIV/AIDS related causes was 38; among women the median age was 34. George H.W. Bush died November 30th 2018 at the age of 94. May he rot in Hell alongside Ronald Reagan! 🖕
