May was criticised this week for slamming the BRIT Awards' removal of gendered awards, and saying Queen would have had to have a transgender member to be successful now.
May was criticised this week for slamming the BRIT Awards’ removal of gendered awards, and saying Queen would have had to have a transgender member to be successful now.
This week, the BRITs announced details of their 2022 ceremony, including the news that Artist of the Year and International Artist of the Year awards are replacing the traditional Male and Female categories from previous years.
The BRIT Awards then responded after non-binary singer Sam Smith spoke out about their plans to keep gender-based categories for the 2021 ceremony.
In his interview with The Mirror, May said the decision was emblematic of a “frightening” trend, adding that he believes that Queen would not have been considered diverse enough nowadays to win their four BRIT Awards, saying: “We would be forced to have people of different colours and different sexes and we would have to have a trans [person]
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