Freddie Mercury. . Freddie didn' t announce publicly that he had
AIDS until the day before he died in 1991. Although he was
flamboyant electric front man on par  Freddie Mercury  Freddie
didn' t announce publicly that he had AIDS until the day before
he died in 1991. Although he was flamboyant electric front man
on par with Bowie and Jaggerjax was an Intensely private man
offstage. But Freddie told me he had AIDS soon after he was
diagnosed in 1937. I was devastated. Pd seen what the disease
had done to so many of my other friends. I knew exactly what it
was going to do to Freddie. As did he. He knew death, agonizing
death, was coming. But Freddie was incredibly courageous. He
kept up appearances, he kept Queen, and he kept being the funny,
outrageous, and profoundly generous person he had always been.
As Freddie deteriorated in the late and early it was almost too
much to bear. It broke my heart to see this absolute light unto
the world ravaged by AIDS. By the end, his body was covered with
Kaposi' s sarcoma