People are protesting that we must boycott the film Bohemian Rhapsody because, and I quote, “the trailer erases Mercury’s homosexuality by having him flirt with a woman and whitewashes him!” Which is funny, because these people are basically erasing Freddie Mercury’s bisexuality and his relationship with Mary Austin and whitewashing Rami Malek at the same time in order to back their shitty excuse of an argument.
Now, repeat with me:
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was
bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was
bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
Freddie Mercury wasn’t gay, he was
bisexual. Rami Malek is Egyptian.
This has been a PSA.
When the first snippet trailer was released there were rumors that they were making Freddie straight and ending the movie before the AIDS crisis.
These rumors turned out to only be based on the fact that neither of those themes were in the 30 second clip.
Since then the trailers clearly show him flirting with men and women and the writers have spoken out to say that part of Freddie’s motivation in the movie is he was recently diagnosed with AIDS. So yeah it’s brought up JUST A LITTLE
But biphobes will hate no matter how much googling you do for them so I guess I’ll just have to HAPPILY go watch this movie 70 consecutive times.
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