Does it really matter at all...?

This may not really matter at all, but a strange news story appeared in the Sun this weekend. The headline read: FREDDIE MERCURY WAS GAY........ Which worryingly enough made me think: "was I the only one to have noticed this....?"

Further more, if this was so, then why and when was I fitted with a homosexual detector, and why hasn't everyone else got one installed too....? Luckily, on further reading the article, the story revelled that it was Brian May, the Queen guitarist who didn't know that Freddie was gay.....!! In fact he claimed that he thought his fellow band member was just flamboyant. Now is that not one of the same...?

You can only wonder to what planet May lived on. We all know of his interest and knowledge of the sky at night, and how he is good friends with Patrick Moore, who is also an astronomer, just in case May was unaware. He is also a doctor of the Milky Way, the galaxy and other far off chocolate bars in the astral plane. But on what planet was he living on in the seventies, and those heady days of sex, sequins and glam rock'n'roll, or was it that he had just inhaled too much hair spray during the glam rock years....?

So Brian, how did you not know, the signs were all there, apart from the fact that Freddie tragically died through aids. There was the way he minced around stage, and his love for the theatrical, which made Queen the band the success they were. He loved musicals and opera, as what else would inspire someone to write Bohemian Rhapsody. Then there was that moustache. If he wasn't the front man for Queen, then he wouldn't look out of place dressed as a dustman in the line up of Village People. Freddie’s liking for men over women may have been a further clue, though May described those days and Freddie’s behaviour as being metrosexual...whatever that maybe...? We will never know, but was this activity the inspiration for Roger Taylor’s classic, 'I'm in love with car'....?

Like the rest of the population of the world, I am a huge fan of Queen.  Freddie Mercury was undoubtedly, and still will be the best front man I have ever seen. I was there in July 1986 when he took control of the old Wembley stadium with one hand, and toyed with millions around the Globe with the other, as he strutted the stage at Live Aid like he owned it. This was Freddie Mercury's world and this was the way he was.  Maybe if Freddie wasn't that way inclined, would Queen have not been the hit of the day, or would the band have been a multi million selling rock band. If not would they be still be playing venues such as the Robin Hood 2 in Bilston.... So in the words of Freddie Mercury himself: "does it really matter at all...?"

Possibly not, as do we really notice the things we don't want to see....?  For an instance, when was the last time that you noticed someone with a disability or even a disabled child in a wheelchair...? They are out there, in fact it has been reported that there are over 70 thousand disabled kids in the UK, and of these 70 thousand, there are 70 thousand disabled kids that possibly don't have the correct chairs or mobility equipment that is suitable for their development, independence and needs.

It is possibly not that we don't notice, more like we don't understand and are totally unaware. So maybe Brian May was unaware in his interview and you have to forgive his ignorance to the life style of his fellow band member. I have that awareness of a disabled child through my involvement with a charity, one that does good work in providing customized mobility equipment for disabled kidz enabling them their independence, confidence and a better quality of life. The more we know, the more aware we become, and then we can make a difference, and then yes, it then really does matter......

10/2/2008