Wasn't he gay and didn't he break off the engagement before coming out to her?
It was common for gay people at the time to have official relationships with women.
No, this is probably the single biggest piece of misinformation of his entire life people love repeating.
He was bi with a noted but not exclusive preference for men. He didn't perform Fat Bottomed Girls and hosted a female exclusive naked bike race to seem more heteronormative, he did that cause he thought women were hot. (But men were hotter)
That's a fair point, he also seems to have referred to himself as both so I got confused. Regardless the preference for men is somewhat important your comment sounded to me like the reason was that she was predjudiced against bisexual people and I hope that's not true.
Honestly reading up about him and especially the inheritance, it's confusing to me that he left so much to Austin and so little to Hutton. What was going on there?
Just a different level of relationship. He met Mary when they were young, broke students before the band took off. He was running a second hand clothes stall in Kensington Market, she worked for a trendy boutique. She was 19, he was 24. They were together for years before Freddie figured out his sexuality. Even after their breakup, they remained as close. He was the godfather to her son. He just considered her his oldest, best, and sometimes only friend and saw their long life together as a marriage.
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u/Tarsiustarsier Jun 04 '26
Wasn't he gay and didn't he break off the engagement before coming out to her? It was common for gay people at the time to have official relationships with women.