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COMMANDO : WAS BEN GAY?
Perhaps ’s the character’s visual prentatn, or somethg more, that has ed speculatn for 30 years over Bent’s sexual orientatn—whether or not he was homosexual, and whether or not he was secretly love wh John Matrix. ” The image of one man puttg somethg another man and then turng , McDermott argu, has obv homosexual nnotatns. Bent is a walkg, talkg, stereotypil embodiment of the macho, puranil Reagan era’s utter terror of homosexualy, gripped wh the fear that the slightt chk the mascule armor will stantly rult a trip to the YMCA and a purchase of a pair of chaps and a tube of KY jelly.
Commando director Mark Lter, however, flatly ni that Bent is gay, statg the DVD mentary:. Souza mentns that “the wardrobe on Vernon Wells has led to a lot of njecture that Vernon had a csh on Arnold’s character, ” and Commando -star Rae Dawn Chong is upont about the homosexual unrcurrent:.