Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

My name is Eli.

I'm Alice.

I'm Irene.

And today we're talking about the frontman of Queen, Freddie Mercury.

Before we get started, we have some content warnings for this episode. We're going to discuss

homophobia, bifobia, and AIDS-related death. We're also going to discuss the objectification

of women, press harassment, and include brief mentions of sexual content, racism, violence,

and drug use, including people andknowingly being given or taking drugs.

We also wanted to know that December the 1st was World AIDS Day and December as a whole

serves as AIDS Awareness Month.

AIDS is an incredibly important part of recent queer history, but it is of course not just history.

There are a lot of great organisations working to raise funds and awareness to combat AIDS today,

and we've included links to some of

them in the description, including the Phoenix Mercury Trust, which was set up by Queen following

Freddie's death. If you'd like to get involved with a fundraiser or with an educational program,

there are some really great resources there to help you find one. If you don't have time to do that,

that's fine, but it's still very worthwhile to become more educated as an individual.

So it's still encouraging to check those links out.

The other thing that I wanted to say, before we start this episode proper, is just how

weird it was to do an episode on someone who died in the 90s.

Yeah.

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