RuPaul, Elton John, Freddie Mercury, and Judy Garland are among the many UK’s favorite homosexual icons. (Getty/BBC/Canva)
New analysis has unveiled the UK’s prime ten favorite LGBTQ+ icons to mark Delight month, and the record is made up nearly completely of musicians.
Maybe unsurprisingly, it’s queer musician and Queen singer Freddie Mercury who takes the highest cease because the UK’s most beloved homosexual icon.
The “Bohemian Rhapsody” hitmaker, who died from AIDS-related problems on the age of 45 in 1991, has offered greater than 300 million information worldwide as a part of Queen.
Along with offering continuous rock bops for the gays and cis-hets alike, the music famous person additionally offered numerous unapologetic queer moments which have made him a hero for the LGBTQ+ group to at the present time, greater than 30 years on from his loss of life.
Nearly 4 in ten UK adults voted for Freddie Mercury because the nation’s greatest homosexual icon, based on analysis from condom model Durex.
Coming in second place is fellow queer music legend and “Tiny Dancer” singer Elton John, who secured a 3rd of the general public vote.
John got here out as bisexual again in 1976 at age 29, earlier than later confirming to Rolling Stone in 1992 that he’s homosexual. The singer has been in a relationship together with his now-husband David Furnish since 1993.
Regardless of not being British, RuPaul’s Drag Race host and Supermodel of the World RuPaul takes the bronze medal because the UK’s third favorite homosexual icon, securing greater than a fifth of the general public vote.
RuPaul’s public profile within the UK has grown massively in recent times following the wildly profitable launch of Drag Race UK again in 2019, which has created a legion of celeb drag queens within the nation, together with The Vivienne, Tia Kofi, and Baga Chipz.
Late musician George Michael is available in fourth place, whereas US singer and bisexual “Poker Face” icon Woman Gaga is in at fifth.
David Bowie, Madonna, Cher, Dolly Parton, and Judy Garland spherical off the remainder of the highest ten – regardless of a couple of of them figuring out as allies reasonably than members of the LGBTQ+ group.
Along with figuring out who the British public imagine to be the best LGBTQ+ star of all time, the analysis uncovered that simply six per cent of the inhabitants’s queer group had learnt about LGBTQ+ relationships in school.
Quite the opposite, almost half of these surveyed felt that LGBTQ+ icons like Freddie Mercury and Elton John offered them with a greater understanding of LGBTQ+ intercourse schooling than their education had.
Earlier this week, to mark Delight month, publication The Unbiased launched its annual Delight Record 2024, with Physician Who star Ncuti Gatwa – who got here out as queer final 12 months – topping the record.
Soccer pundit and associate to musician Jess Glynne, Alex Scott, got here in second place, whereas Victoria McCloud, the UK’s first trans choose, got here in third place.
All of Us Strangers actor Andrew Scott and Labour politician Wes Streeting rounded off the highest 5.