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Queer Icon Freddie Mercury Gets New Life Through Polish-Born Performer

by Michael Musto

Kuba Ka has optioned the rights to Lesley-Ann Jones' book An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury, and it doesn't take a genius to see why; when made up properly, the Polish-born performer is a dead ringer for Mercury, the wiry icon who rocked out on hits like "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Are The Champions." (Mercury--who grew up in Zanzibar, India, and England--sadly died of AIDS in 1991, but the songs of his group,…

SOURCE: Out at 2:26pm on April 3, 2017