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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.

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

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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.

But was clear few uld agree when me to Hoton’s sexualy, pecially her relatnship wh long-time iend and openly gay woman Robyn some kd of lost diary surfac, fans will never hear om Whney directly. The relatnship eventually end bee of homophobic are still very few openly queer black women the public eye, and while I want to make very clear that homophobia wh the black muny is not greater than or a larger societal problem than homophobia wh whe muni or otherwise, there is a generatnal feel to . If her dghter had been gay, Cissy Hoton said, she wouldn’t have ndoned .

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

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” Crawford says she and Hoton, "never talked about labels, like lbian or gay. ”Both 2017's "Whney: Can I Be Me" and 2018's "Whney" highlight the faial homophobia that surround Hoton, as well as the prsure she felt om a homophobic, racist, patriarchal society and entertament bs.

Now, as a black and openly gay woman, she's reclaimg who she is, and who Hoton was to her. But what Crawford allows to mate on is how others have been able to dictate a culture of homophobia.

WHNEY HOTON'S GAY LOVER TELLS ALL NEW BOOK

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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.

WHERE HEATHER GAY STANDS TODAY WH WHNEY ROSE’S HBAND, JT

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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?

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

 WAS WHNEY HOTON GAY? NEW BOOK CLAIMS LIVG A CLOSETED LIFE STROYED LEGEND

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And yet, four years after they wed, Katie Couric asked Whney about Robyn and the gay mors once aga. Crawford says her memoir that she and Whney “never talked about labels, like lbian or gay, ” but stead jt lived their liv. Even the Village People shied away om their queer origs when they h big wh their licly gay anthem “YMCA.

Whney was already grdg toward her reer, but take that off the table and you have a teenage girl experiencg a same-sex romance right at the onset of AIDS, an epimic that would be met not jt wh blatant homophobia disguised as moral panic but msagg rooted shame. Now we have Frank Ocean, Kehlani and Janelle Monáe progrsg R&B wh their sounds while centerg their sexualy; Lil Nas X was able to bee the first gay rapper to top the pop charts; shows like “Empire” and “Pose” and queer creators like Lena Wahe and Ja Mock have shifted the way Black queer characters are reprented film and on televisn.

HEATHER GAY AND WHNEY ROSE TOOK THEIR “BAD WEATHER” TO THAILAND ON ‘RHUGT’ SEASON 3

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Black queer artists lived openly, even as they risked persecutn for engagg homosexual acts. Her protégé, and mored paramour, Bsie Smh, sang about sexual eedom much to the ire of her abive hband and beme the hight-paid Black entertaer of her time; Gladys Bentley gaed populary for her cross-drsg performanc before later claimg to be “cured” of her homosexualy; 1935, Lucille Bogan rerd “B. The liberatn they found their bodi and their embracement of queer fans ma them all gay ins at a time when even allyship om mastream artists was nsired risky.

The tolerance extend to queer artists was still few and far between, as pop mic was rife wh homophobic gatekeepers. The chatter ma s way to prt journalists, who eventually started askg every terview, Is Whney gay? But there was also a flippant nial: “Anyway, whose bs is if you’re gay or like dogs?

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” Surely Whney didn’t tend on lkg homosexualy wh btialy Time magaze or to downplay her clost iend as the help or the years of aggrsive nials that were sometim wrapped bigoted language.

'RHOSLC'S HEATHER GAY 'SHOOK' BY FALLOUT WH WHNEY ROSE 'TUMULTUO' SEASON 3 (EXCLIVE)

This isn’t to exonerate the harm that me wh the bigoted thgs she said, but Whney was a young woman, a Black one, risg to the top durg a time when state-sanctned homophobia was the norm. She didn’t see herself as gay, and we didn’t talk about sexual fluidy wh the ease we do now. This was very much a time when you were gay if you had sex wh the same sex, perd.

'RHOSLC' STAR HEATHER GAY'S FURY TOWARDS WHNEY ROSE LABELED 'PETTY AND DISPROPORTNATE'

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. At that time, the church and the rerd dtry were both homophobic.

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