{"id":1062839,"date":"2021-11-28T19:43:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062839"},"modified":"2021-11-28T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:44:07","slug":"brian-may-accuses-reporter-of-twisting-comments-on-art-diversity-and-queen-hiring-trans-band-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brian-may-accuses-reporter-of-twisting-comments-on-art-diversity-and-queen-hiring-trans-band-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May Accuses Reporter of &#039;Twisting&#039; Comments on Art, Diversity, and Queen Hiring Trans Band Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrian-may-accuses-reporter-of-twisting-comments-on-art-diversity-and-queen-hiring-trans-band-members%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1062839&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-74292127-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Brian May, the guitarist for the legendary British rock group Queen, blasted the \u201cpredatory\u201d press for \u201csubtly twisting\u201d his criticism of left-wing cancel culture to make it seem that he opposes transgenderism.<\/p>\n<p>In a Sunday post to Instagram, May slammed the British press for misleading fans about the point he was making last week when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/3am\/celebrity-news\/queens-brian-blasts-woke-culture-25539442\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke<\/a> to the <i>Daily Mirror<\/i> about the recent changes eliminating \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d categories for the British Record Industry Trusts (BRIT) Awards show. According to the BRIT announcement, all recording artists will be treated equally in competition for award categories and the awards will not be separated out into male and female groupings.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>May said he felt \u201cambushed\u201d by the \u201cpredatory Press hacks\u201d of the <i>Mirror<\/i> and in no way intended to make it look like he was \u201cunfriendly to trans people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes \u2013 I was ambushed and completely stitched up by a journalist at the recent ITV event,\u201d May wrote on his November 28 Instagram post. \u201cAnd it\u2019s led to a whole mess of press stories making it look like I\u2019m unfriendly to trans people. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSincere apologies to anyone who has been hurt by the stories. My heart is open as always to humans of all colors, all creeds, all sexes and sexualities, all shapes and sizes \u2013 and all creatures. We all deserve respect and an equal place in this world. And my grateful thanks to all of you who stepped up to defend me in the last couple of days. It means so much that you have faith in me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CWztZHEK-wH\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.2625\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>May\u2019s doubling back on the interview came after he told the paper that he thought the effort to eliminate \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d categories was a foolish example of cancel culture wokeism, and the decision was made \u201cwithout enough thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it was his casual insertion of transgenderism that caused a ruckus.<\/p>\n<p>May told the paper that Freddie Mercury \u2014 a bi-sexual man from Africa\u2019s Zanzibar who died of AIDS in 1996 \u2014 would have found today\u2019s woke cancel culture \u201cdifficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreddie came from Zanzibar, he wasn\u2019t British, he wasn\u2019t white as such \u2013 nobody cares, nobody ever, ever discussed it,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was a musician, he was our friend, he was our brother. We didn\u2019t have to stop and think: \u2018Ooh, now, should we work with him? Is he the right color? Is he the right sexual proclivity?\u2019 None of that happened.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Queen - Killer Queen (Top Of The Pops, 1974)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2ZBtPf7FOoM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>May added that today his own famed band would not be considered diverse enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find it frightening that you have to be so calculating about everything,\u201d May exclaimed. \u201cWe would be forced to have people of different colors, and different sexes, and we would have to have a trans [person]. You know life doesn\u2019t have to be like that. We can be separate and different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of things work quite well and can be left alone,\u201d May added. \u201cI get so sick of people trying to change things without thinking of the long-term consequences. Some of these things are an improvement, some of them are not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the guitarist bemoaned the \u201catmosphere of fear everywhere because people are afraid to say how they really think,\u201d and concluded saying that, \u201cso many people are feeling \u2018hang on, this isn\u2019t quite right.\u2019 But they don\u2019t dare say anything. Eventually there will be some kind of explosion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian May, the guitarist for the legendary British rock group Queen, blasted the \u201cpredatory\u201d press for \u201csubtly twisting\u201d his criticism of left-wing cancel culture to make it seem that he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}