WATCH: Will the new Whney Hoton bpic addrs her long-mored gay romance? - Queerty

Contents:

• ONE OF THE MOST UNR-EXAMED DIMENSNS OF WHNEY HOTON’S LEGACY IS HER STAT AS A GAY IN
• INSI WHNEY HOTON’S SECRET TORMENT FOR BEG GAY, FALLG FOR A WOMAN
• WAS WHNEY HOTON GAY? EXPLORG THE LEGENDARY SGER’S SEXUALY
• THE WHNEY HOTON BPIC IS A BIG, GAY MASTERPIECE
• WATCH: WILL THE NEW WHNEY HOTON BPIC ADDRS HER LONG-MORED GAY ROMANCE?

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

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? “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.

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

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. “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. “Was she gay?

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

Their partnership ma sense: Bobby need to class up his bad boy image and Whney need to pe the gay mors. And yet, four years after they wed, Katie Couric asked Whney about Robyn and the gay mors once aga.

Was Whney Hoton gay?

We never talked labels, like lbian or gay. Kennedy went on to say, “They were partners a tradnal sense but never had a real nversatn about labels — lbian, gay, bisexual, girliend.

THE WHNEY HOTON BPIC IS A BIG, GAY MASTERPIECE

At that time, the church and the rerd dtry were both homophobic. All of them wanted to know, “Was she gay?

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

Nearly 4 years after her marriage to Bobby Brown, Katie Couric asked Whney Hoton about Robyn Crawford and the gay mors once aga. Lena Wahe’s attempt to honor Hoton’s secret gay relatnship across as too timid for what ’s dog.

While she’s ozen there, her md leaps back time, through a montage that se her at church, at a gay club, and lyg romantilly the arms of Jasme (Aleyse Shannon). Half an hour or so to the new Whney Hoton bpic, I Wanna Dance wh Somebody, two bros stg next to me asked, “Why is gay Whney Black Panther?

Lemmons and cematographer Barry Ackroyd shoot the scen gray close-ups, sometim behd furnure, remiscent of Bce Surte’s merawork the 1976 blaxploatn mil Sparkle (one of Hoton’s favore films, wrten by gay Hollywood director Joel Schumacher). Hoton’s father flips, shoutg homophobic accatns agast Crawford, but Hoton is the sger, not her father. Queer directors have created many great d gay films (everythg om the ovre of Vcent Mnelli to John Waters’s crime edi e to md), but few great Hollywood films about beg queer.