Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury came to fame through the pop band Queen who he was the lead singer. Queen first famous song was the 1975 smash hit Bohemien Rapsody which prepelled them to pop stardom. From 1975 through to the early 1990s, Queen were one of the most successful if not popular bands ever to have graced our radios. Freddie Mercury had released a solo album titled Mr Bad Guy and performed a duet with Montserrat Caballé for the song Barcelona. Freddie Mercury kept his private life to himself and had many girlfriends and boyfriends. One of his girlsfriends, Mary Austin he met and went out with until apparently he admitted he was bisexual to her and subsequetly split up but stayed the best of friends. Sometime in his life Freddie Mercury contracted the HIV virus and he knew his life would come to an end sooner than he would have liked. Towards the end of the 1980's, Freddie Mercury struggled with this disease and rumours started to surface if he had AIDS or not. He denied this upto the last days of his life where he made it public, that in fact he had AIDs and sadly passed away not long after on the 24 November 1991. If you would like a list of gay celebrities for your site use our RSS feed.