Would Queen be as popular now if they weren't gay?

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Yeah. I should have known I was wasting my time answering someone like you.

Have a nice hateful Life.

Not sure about White Male Privilege myself, think it is an oversimplified term when people mean White Class Privilege, as in jobs for the boys and etc., which often doesn't extend down to the fast disappearing middle-class.

As for the homeless they're all probably war veterans that the different Governments over the decades have ignored once they returned home, plus maybe some of the emergency workers who got ill after 9-11 and got no help from those same Governments. Maybe some of the factory workers who lost their jobs because it was easier to turn a profit using robotic manufacturing equipment, even the Coal Mine companies sacked thousands to automatise the factories. Even the trucks and what not in those places and other mining interests are being replaced with self-driving ones and workers laid-off, especially in the ‎Minerals and Resources sectors down here in Australia

Edit: Tin-Foil Hat On.

Basically the War Veterans and Emergency Workers are there because they don't get any privileges, they just get used like they are cattle that can be replaced and put to one side once their usefulness is up. In some ways the Governments and Corporations target and use the people with the mind set to join up in a very similar way to Religious Cults, they're just a means to an end.

Excellent band and yeah who gives a toss, who wants to go back to the days where the likes of Rock Hudson, James Dean and etc., had to hide their sexually, best day will be when no-one has to come out of the closest because no-one cares any more (sadly at 58 now I won't see it).

When I saw Bohemian Rhapsody the entire audience was in it through all the ebbs and flows and the reactions where fantastic. In the scene where Freddie is being hounded by the press about his sexually, most of the audience groaned and when he said "we have a record out you know, talk about that" half the audience applauded and others said yes loudly (showed a difference between the public then and now). Even I was well into it and it wasn't until after it was over that the way the timeline was played with it started to play around in my mind as how overly sensationalised it was. Basically as a movie that took you on a journey and kept your attention it was fantastic, in the end it was like taking a sugar hit where the come down hits you later (ye olde saying of it left a sour taste in my mouth in other words), not a film for repeated viewing for mine really.

Queen have put themselves out there in the USA with appearances on American Idol, X-Factor, various other USA TV shows and since 2004 toured the USA first with Paul Rodgers taking Freddie's place; then Adam Lambert. Then there's the Roger Taylor and Brian May put together Queen Extravaganza cover band touring and the stage play *We Will Rock You which toured North America in 2013 while also playing in Las Vegas for 3 months in 2004.

*According to Wikipedia:

The North American leg on the We Will Rock You tour covered nearly the whole of the US, corners of Canada and a sold out run in Mexico City at the Auditiorio Nacional. In all, the North American leg of the WWRY World tour included 298 performances, 30 cities, 23 States/Territories, 3 Countries, over 30,000 miles traveled and over a half-a-million people in attendance.

So yeah I believe young people in the USA know Queen via all that work and people doing their songs on The Voice etc., (including The Voice Kids), before becoming part of Queen Adam Lambert was known, so he alone would have peaked interest. See I'm not sure people can be pinned down as much these days, if say the "Talent Shows" have people doing their songs then I believe younger people seek out the originals now via YouTube or Spotify or whatever. Plus you have to throw-in the artists they follow talking up Queen, like say Lady Gaga has over the years to name but one, honestly I think this movie has had a slow build of interest growing since 2004 (basically since they reestablished themselves in the USA).

What will be interesting to see is how the Elton John bio-pic Rocketman goes when it hits cinemas early next year, as I would think Elton John is very well known with interest having been there continuously over his entire career (even if only for spats with Madonna).

My children are 28 and 31 and they have Queen's CD's in their cars. So yes they do.

You said:

"It's shoehorned into every movie and TV show. It feels like sexual harassment."

And now you're talking about people being fired? How are gays on "every TV show" causing men to get fired from their jobs exactly??

Your nuts Thrillhouse, if men get fired for this comic, it's because it can be lude! Keep your lude at home.