{"id":117664,"date":"2026-01-30T18:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117664\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:35:06","slug":"queens-brian-may-wont-come-to-the-dangerous-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/117664\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen’s Brian May won’t come to the “dangerous” U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many world and business leaders and would-be Orlando vacationers, Queen guitarist Brian May is thinking twice about crossing the pond these days. Amid mounting state violence, threats of immigrant detention, and civilian executions, May tells the Daily Mail<\/a> that touring the States again has given him pause because \u201cAmerica is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account.\u201d Since July, masked state agents have been involved in eight fatalities<\/a>, including the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti, Ren\u00e9e Good, and Keith Porter earlier this year. Meanwhile, the Trump administration\u2019s masked police force has arrested more than 352,000 people<\/a>, cramming them in inhumane detention centers<\/a>, before shipping detainees, including children, to countries they\u2019ve often never been to before. Particularly in cities such as Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and Portland, ME, things continue to escalate, and today, they began arresting journalists<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America and we love it, but it\u2019s not what it was,\u201d May says. \u201cEveryone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.\u201d Since 2009, May and Queen drummer Roger Taylor has toured with singer Adam Lambert under the name Queen + Adam Lambert. They last played America in 2023.<\/p>\n

May didn\u2019t speak to any particular reason why he feels America is becoming a dangerous place, though an increasingly violent secret police force that\u2019s hostile to immigrants seems as good a reason as any to avoid a country. The guitarist\u2019s personal politics have drifted left over the last few decades, particularly as the U.K.\u2019s Conservative Party moved toward the isolationism of Brexit. He\u2019s particularly engaged with animal welfare, and per Stereogum<\/a>, refused to play Glastonbury Festival because, he claims, its founders \u201clike killing badgers, and they think it\u2019s for sport and that\u2019s something I cannot support because we\u2019ve been trying to save these badgers for years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like many world and business leaders and would-be Orlando vacationers, Queen guitarist Brian May is thinking twice about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-117664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}