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Workg whout the approval of Whney Hoton’s fay or accs to her songs, The Chi creator Lena Wahe tri to tell the story of her secret gay relatnship wh Robyn Crawford through allegory and alln. The film is visually rich and strikg, but ’s too timid, and the lack of mic hurts the story. Streamg on Netflix now.

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ONE OF THE MOST UNR-EXAMED DIMENSNS OF WHNEY HOTON’S LEGACY IS HER STAT AS A GAY IN

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And pecially as a gay man. Many queer people – and particularly gay men – see slic of their own stggl and aspiratns reflected the beloved superstar’s life and work, and her prence ronat throughout queer culture. (Remember that charmg dance sequence the 2018 g-of-age movie “Love, Simon, ” about a closeted gay teen?

“I do not thk that anyone would dispute Hoton’s gay inicy, ” the French amic Ge-Cl Guilbert wr his 2018 book, “Gay Ins: The (Mostly) Female Entertaers Gay Men Love. How did Hoton bee, and rema, a gay in?

INSI WHNEY HOTON’S SECRET TORMENT FOR BEG GAY, FALLG FOR A WOMAN

“When I go to llege Los Angel, I’ll be gay and proud, ” he promis. As he sticks a poster of Hoton on his imaged dorm room wall, the sger’s 1987 smash “I Wanna Dance Wh Somebody (Who Lov Me)” – a mt-play at gay bars and queer dance parti – kicks . Simon envisns what would be like to make through high school and live a full and happy life as an out gay man, prancg around mp.

Kennedy went on, sayg of the release of 1998’s “My Love Is Your Love” and “It’s Not Right but It’s Okay” (that a remix of the latter is a gay anthem is beyond dispute), “I remember that was the moment when I, a Black queer boy growg up the Midwt, which was super opprsive, felt ee. We were one: That’s how felt…We never talked labels, like lbian or gay. Together that summer, they sunbathed at the Jersey Shore, went to gay clubs, and ma out a rental r before beg told to move along by a p.

WAS WHNEY HOTON GAY? EXPLORG THE LEGENDARY SGER’S SEXUALY

“They were partners a tradnal sense but never had a real nversatn about labels — lbian, gay, bisexual, girliend, ” Kennedy wr. The church and the rerd dtry were both so homophobic, Whney knew the affair had to end when Clive Davis gave her a rerd al.

THE WHNEY HOTON BPIC IS A BIG, GAY MASTERPIECE

“Was she gay? Their partnership ma sense: Bobby need to class up his bad boy image and Whney need to pe the gay mors.

WATCH: WILL THE NEW WHNEY HOTON BPIC ADDRS HER LONG-MORED GAY ROMANCE?

And yet, four years after they wed, Katie Couric asked Whney about Robyn and the gay mors once aga.

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