I've been reading this book about Freddie Mercury, Somebody to Love by Matt Richards and Mark Langthorne. It largely covers his battle with AIDS, which they believe he contracted during the Hot Space tour at a gay sex club in New York shortly before said clubs (and bathhouses etc.) were shut down by the city council.
During the last years of his life, he constantly denied two rumours frequently bandied round by the press:
1. that he was gay, and;
2. he had AIDS.
Of course, both were true (although Freddie wasn't "exclusively" gay, but that's another story). The press would take pictures of him leaving AIDS clinics, at least once misidentifying his chauffeur as a boyfriend. He wouldn't even reveal he was HIV positive to his bandmates until it got impossible to hide, and he allegedly did so by putting his leg on the table and showing them the oozing lesion on his ankle...
The history of AIDS, as unusual as it sounds, interests me. So it was a fascinating read both because it concerned that topic and one of my favourite singers.
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~Zinc Alloy aka. Russell~
WP's most sparkling member.
DX classic autism 1995, AS 2003, depression 2008
~INFP~