Freddie lived in New York City in the early 80's and he and his friends went out to the gay bars together. He made up girl names for everyone and he called himself their mother.
That is the EXTREMELY simplified explanation.
If you are interested in learning more, two of the ny daughters, Thor and Lee, have a forum under General Forums. They are awesome people
Yeah Freddie loved calling his friends by girl names. Even the band had girl names, Brian was Maggie May John was Belisha Deacon Roger was Liz Taylor
Elton was Sharon and Rod Stewart was Tracey !
I would head over to the Thor threads for MUCH for info!
He had amazing drag names for his friends but I think my favorites are Phoebe, Lauren Hutton (Jim) or Sharon (Elton)