Aimee Walker
Brian May has hit out at a journalist for ‘subtly twisting’ comments he made about the BRITs axing gendered categories.
The Queen guitarist took to Instagram to apologise to anyone ‘who was hurt by the stories’ and claimed he was ‘ambushed and stiched up’ while attending the ITV Palooza in London.
The 74-year-old said: “I was ambushed and completely stitched up by a journalist at the recent ITV event.
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“And it’s led to a whole mess of press stories making it look like I’m 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.”
He continued: “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.”
Finishing off the statement, May said everyone ‘deserves respect and an equal place in this world,’ adding: “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.”
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The musician was originally quoted telling The Sun: “I feel very uncomfortable about some of the decisions that are being made, often out of fear because people are so afraid of being called out.
“I get so sick of people trying to change things without thinking of the long-term consequences, some of these things are improvements and some are not.
“Some of them are depriving people.”
The publication also reported that he said he believes Queen wouldn’t be diverse enough in today’s society.
He was quoted saying: “I am sure if Queen started now we would be forced to have people of different colours and different sexes and a trans [person], but life doesn’t have to be like that.
“We can be separate and different.
“Our generation made a lot of bad mistakes but not everybody in our generation was wrong and not everybody in this generation is right.”
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