the best part of that story in context is that before they pull out their dicks, hemingway spends the better part of a chapter physically describing fitzgerald in great detail, claiming to be grossed out by him but obviously, obviously uncomfortably attracted
oh my god, it got better. I just went to find an excerpt and
Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and pretty. He had very fair wavy hair, a high forehead, excited and friendly eyes and a delicate long-lipped Irish mouth that, on a girl, would have been the mouth of a beauty. His chin was well built and he had good ears and a handsome, almost beautiful, unmarked nose. This should not have added up to a pretty face, but that came from the coloring, the very fair hair and the mouth. The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more.
ernest hemingway calm down and control your thirst a little
“The mouth worried you until you knew him and then it worried you more“ is a hell of a line
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.
And to all y’all in the notes calling for a boycott because this movie ‘erases his death by AIDS’: this is not an I Walk The Line type biopic that spans decades. It specifically deals with the era of one particular song (guess which one). Do some research before you start with this nonsense.
Where the fuck is this coming from? Is it the outrage lifestyle community seizing an opportunity to be angry and wrong? Is it the stan community going so hard for him they’ve come full circle?
Freddie Mercury, like many people in the sexual alphabet soup, had relationships with people of different genders during the course of his life. He hooked up with female and male groupies. He had male and female long-term partners. He called Mary Austin the “love of [his] life” and left her almost everything when he died; by then, he’d been in a committed relationship with a man for years. (He was also named in the will, so it wasn’t an accident.) According to his bandmates, he didn’t like to talk about his sexuality, but he didn’t try to hide it from them. He enjoyed leaning into the campy ambiguity that was in style at the time.
The ambiguity ended when he contracted HIV and very publicly succumbed to AIDS. He suffered the consequences of actually being queer, unlike the straight musicians who appropriated its trappings to sell records. (I’m looking at you, Prince and David Bowie! Yeah, I fucking said it! Show me your ragey think pieces about that actual representation issue, you hypocrites.)
One thing’s for damn sure: NO ONE IS LABORING UNDER THE IMPRESSION FREDDIE MERCURY WAS STRAIGHT. When people think of him, they think of A) Bohemian Rhapsody, and B) AIDS. The ghoulish fascination with his illness and death, and the steady stream of biographical works that sensationalized those things, became so rampant in the 90s that it threatened to permanently eclipse everything else about his life, achievements, and cultural impact.
So, yeah, it’s okay that the TRAILER for this movie didn’t put a spotlight on him being into dudes. Don’t @ me.
*writes I LIKE GIRLS on every other page of my journals so future historians don’t try to insist that I’m straight”
Future straight Historians: “we see several examples of her prioritizing a sisterly bond with the women around her, for example on page 12 she says ‘I like girls’ and throughout the text she references loving women and preferring their company. This is not to say she prioritized above her romantic relationships because on page 78 she mentions talking to a man one time in her life. It’s hard to know just how much she valued her sisterly bond with women due to this one reference of men and the ambiguity of early 21st century slang. For example on page 12 when she said she liked women, the passage continues ’…in a lesbian way. I want to kiss girls, they are so pretty, I’m so gay.’ Now it’s difficult to understand just what that sentence means. We know that in the early 21st century kissing on the cheek in greeting had gone out of vogue but the word gay, a word with an archaic meaning of happiness gives the contextual clues that perhaps she is references that old fashioned practice.
Going back to the nameless man that is mentioned once on page 78 for one sentance…”
“Now, given that she wrote on page 12, ‘Just to be clear: I’m sexually and romantically attracted to women exclusively,’ one may be tempted to read this literally, but we can’t rule out sarcasm.”
It may seem like @vilesbian is joking, but she really isn’t.
I don’t know if this is weird or not, but I totes read Mulan as a trans woman! I tend to read all “women who pretend to be men” stories as very similar to my experience. In contrast, I’ve never imagined that a character presented to the audience as male was actually a trans woman.
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