A member of Queen said he was “ambushed and completely stitched up” after his remarks about cancel culture and the transgender community.
A journalist misreported Brian May’s words, the guitarist said. The iconic band’s lead guitarist remarked how Queen would look in 2021, given all the inclusivity culture demands not to be canceled.
“I’m sure … we would be forced to have people of different colors and different sexes and a trans person — but life doesn’t have to be like that,” May reportedly said. “We can be separate and different. Our generation made a lot of mistakes, but not everybody in our generation was wrong, and not everybody in this generation is right. A lot of people from our generation who are being called out have actually done a lot of good in their lives.”
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“I worry about cancel culture. I think some of it is good, but it also brings bad things and injustices. We think in different ways, but they weren’t necessarily worse ways. For instance, Freddie came from Zanzibar — he wasn’t British, he wasn’t white as such — nobody cared. Nobody ever, ever discussed it. He was a musician, he was our friend, he was our brother,” he continued. “We didn’t have to stop and think, ‘Oh, now, should we work with him? Is he the right color? Is he the right sexual proclivity?’ None of that happened, and now I find it frightening that you have to be so calculating.”
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May was “ambushed,” he said, noting his words were taken out of context.
“I was ambushed and completely stitched up by a journalist at the recent ITV event. And it’s led to a whole mess of press stories making it look like I’m unfriendly to trans people,” he wrote on Instagram. “Nothing could be further from the truth. My words were subtly twisted. I should have known better than to talk to those predatory Press hacks. Sincere apologies to anyone who has been hurt by the stories. My heart is open as always to humans of all colours, all creeds, all sexes and sexualities, all shapes and sizes — and all creatures.”
The U.K. BRIT awards ditched its gendered male and female categories for a nongendered option, prompting May’s comments, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.
