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I’ll Have a Bohemian Rhapsoda, Thanks

This isn't so much Jewish, but The Advocate (via Muslim LGBT organization Al-Fatiha) reveals the fairly awesome fact that Zanzibar has a Freddy Mercury-themed restaurant, along with the far less awesome news that the owner has been prevented from throwing an AIDS fundraiser for what would have been Mercury's 60th birthday due to anti-gay protests.

This is a pretty depressing story. But the article points out what might be a larger humanitarian issue:

"Few on Zanzibar are aware of Queen or Freddie Mercury, who was born Farrokh Bulsara on the main island of Unguja to ethnic Persian parents on September 5, 1946." Forget gay rights, religious tolerance, or AIDS in Africa — Freddy Mercury-awareness is a cause worthy of all of our support. I'm calling Bono ASAP.

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