Specifically, the film that will depict the 15-year period between Queen’s formation as a band and their iconic performance at Live Aid located at Wembley Stadium in 1985 had a teaser released and following it the movie received some criticism from writer and producer Bryan Fuller for not paying full attention to his bisexuality. He took Twitter to say: “Anyone else mildly annoyed (enough to tweet about it) that the #BohemianRapsody (sic) trailer features gay/bi superstar Freddie Mercury flirting with and twirling with a woman but no indication of his love of men?” adding “I feel what the trailer is doing is queer-erasure. If they were out and proud with his bi-sexuality they would have indicated he was bi-sexual.” later finishing by stating “Showing him romantic with a woman, but not a man (3 frames don’t count) is not a celebration of bi-sexual identity. It’s hiding it.”
However, Malek made sure to stick up for the film saying that “It’s a shame that people are making remarks after a minute teaser where you just wanna see the music. It’s difficult,” said Malek. “First, let me say that I don’t think the film shies away from his sexuality or his all-consuming disease, which is obviously AIDS. I don’t know how you could avoid any of that, or if anyone would ever want to. It’s a bit absurd that anyone’s judging this from a minute trailer.” I guess we will have to wait and see the whole film when it drops on the 24th of October.
