Freddie Mercury

On the left, Freddie Mercury is topless and wearing red shorts, a towel round his neck, and signing into a microphone. On the right, an art dealer with Mercury's baby grand Yamaha piano.

Music
Sep 07

Freddie Mercury items sell for millions at auction – a testament to queer star’s enduring legacy

Freddie Mercury. (Steve Jennings/WireImage)

Music
Sep 05

13 incredible, brave and bold queer moments from Freddie Mercury, the greatest showman of all time

UK
Apr 26

Freddie Mercury’s best friend is selling his most intimate belongings in a huge auction

Freddie Mercury wears a white outfit as he sings on stage during a performance with the band Queen

Education
Apr 24

Teacher barred over homophobic Freddie Mercury slur: ‘Shame he was a f****t’

Singer Lady Gaga wearing a green dress and necklace. A rat nibbling on a biscuit.

Music
Nov 20 2022

Rats love dancing to Lady Gaga’s gayest hit, according to science

Freddie Mercury wears a white outfit as he sings on stage during a performance with the band Queen

Music
Oct 13 2022

Queen releases long-lost Freddie Mercury song 30 years after icon’s death: ‘Goosebumps’

Hugo Boss has released a collection celebrating the legendary Freddie Mercury.

Style
Jun 21 2022

Hugo Boss releases a Pride Month collection celebrating queer icon Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury George Michael

Music
Dec 24 2021

Queen’s Roger Taylor addresses rumours George Michael was going to replace Freddie Mercury

Brian May of Queen attends the press conferenc

Music
Nov 25 2021

Brian May says Queen would be ‘forced to have trans person’ if starting now in bizarre rant

Freddie Mercury performing at the Milton Keynes National Bowl in 1982.

Culture
Nov 24 2021

The cruel way newspapers treated Freddie Mercury’s death will chill you to the bone

Freddie Mercury. (Steve Jennings/WireImage)

Culture
Nov 24 2021

How Freddie Mercury’s tragic passing saved lives in the fight against HIV and AIDS

Freddie Mercury

Culture
Nov 24 2021

10 of the most inspiring, affirming and charismatic Freddie Mercury quotes to live your life by

Freddie Mercury: Elton John tells tearful story about singer's final days

Music
Nov 24 2021

Elton John shares tear-jerking story about Freddie Mercury’s final days: ‘I was overcome’

Freddie Mercury Queen

Culture
Nov 24 2021

How Freddie Mercury’s selfless final act changed the lives of HIV and AIDS patients the world over

Queen's Freddie Mercury performs onstage during The Game Tour at Joe Louis Arena, 20 September 1980

Culture
Nov 24 2021

Freddie Mercury remembered as ‘kind, generous and loving’ 30 years on from his tragic death

Culture
Nov 02 2021

JoJo Siwa lands in Dancing with the Stars’ bottom two despite serving Freddie Mercury excellence

Freddie Mercury and Elton John

Culture
Jul 13 2021

Freddie Mercury read Elton John to absolute filth backstage at Live Aid

Sacha Baron Cohen was set to play Freddie Mercury in an early version of the biopic, and wanted it to be "outrageous".

TV
Feb 20 2021

Sacha Baron Cohen wanted an ‘outrageously’ gay Freddie Mercury in his canned version of Bohemian Rhapsody

Freddie Mercury wearings a rainbow jacket and Elton John

Culture
Feb 19 2021

Elton John reflects on Freddie Mercury’s funeral as he tells It’s a Sin’s Olly Alexander: ‘He was just like you’

Rami Malek starred as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody

Culture
Feb 15 2021

Bohemian Rhapsody gay kisses blurred out by TV channel because they ‘could make families uncomfortable’

Dave Chappelle AIDS Freddie Mercury SNL

TV
Nov 09 2020

Dave Chappelle mocks Donald Trump with hurtful jokes about AIDS and Freddie Mercury, because apparently it’s still the 1980s

Matt Hancock Therese Coffey Karaoke

UK
Sep 03 2020

While Matt Hancock and Therese Coffey spend their week defending homophobia, here they are ‘singing’ about gay sex at karaoke

Luke Evans and the Welsh National Opera

Pride
Sep 01 2020

Beauty and the Beast star Luke Evans joins Welsh National Opera for an emotional Pride performance like no other

Entertainment Weekly's upcoming Pride month edition has attracted criticism online for its bizarre inclusion of the Stonewall brick. We suspect the gay intern her. (Entertainment Weekly/Twitter)

Culture
May 14 2020

Entertainment Weekly put the ‘first brick thrown at Stonewall’ on its Pride cover and people have thoughts – lots of thoughts

Brian May of British rock band Queen. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Music
Apr 17 2020

Brian May on music being a ‘great healer’ and why he’s still writing songs during coronavirus – just like Freddie would

Adam Lambert George Michael

Music
Mar 20 2020

Adam Lambert wants to play George Michael in a film about his life

Queen commemorative coin

Music
Jan 20 2020

Queen make history – again – as first band to be celebrated with their own commemorative coin

Freddie Mercury. (Steve Jennings/WireImage)

Music
Jan 09 2020

Freddie Mercury’s ‘best friend’ claims singer cut him out of his life during final battle against AIDS

Singer Freddie Mercury (1946 - 1991) of Queen attends Fashion Aid at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with Mary Austin, 5th November 1985. (Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

Music
Oct 23 2019

Freddie Mercury’s ex buried his ashes in a secret location – and people still don’t know where to this day

The video for Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow features a romance

Music
Sep 05 2019

This official new Freddie Mercury music video serves as an unashamedly queer tribute

Freddie Mercury. (Steve Jennings/WireImage)

Music
Sep 05 2019

13 unashamedly queer moments from Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury: Elton John tells tearful story about singer's final days

Music
Sep 05 2019

Elton John shares tear-jerking story about Freddie Mercury’s final days