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- ROCKETMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE IS A BIG STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN
- ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN’S REAL-LIFE ROLLER-COASTER RELATNSHIP WH JOHN REIDTARON EGERTON AND RICHARD MADN PORTRAY JOHN AND REID’S STEAMY ’70S ROMANCE—THE FIRST RELATNSHIP ELTON JOHN HAD WH A MAN.BY JULIE MILLERMAY 31, 2019ELTON JOHN KISSG HIS MANAGER JOHN REID ON CHEEK, 1979.BY RICHARD YOUNG/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEELTON JOHN WOULD NOT SACRIFICE SEX FOR A PG-13 RATG—NOT LIFE, AND NOT ROCKETMAN, THE MIL BPIC STARRG TARON EGERTON. “EVERYONE KNOWS I HAD QUE A LOT OF [SEX AND DGS] DURG THE ’70S AND ’80S,” JOHN EXPLAED THE GUARDIAN THIS MONTH. “SO THERE DIDN’T SEEM TO BE MUCH POT MAKG A MOVIE THAT IMPLIED THAT AFTER EVERY GIG, I’D QUIETLY GONE BACK TO MY HOTEL ROOM WH ONLY A GLASS OF WARM K AND THE GION’S BIBLE FOR PANY.”FOLLOWG LAST YEAR’S BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY—WHICH DOWNPLAYED FREDDIE MERCURY’S NOTORLY PROLIFIC SEX LIFE—ROCKETMAN’S UNAPOLOGETIC LOVE SCENE BETWEEN ELTON JOHN AND HIS FIRST BOYIEND, JOHN REID (RICHARD MADN), LIGHTED CANN FILM FTIVAL DIENCE MEMBERS. AND EVEN THOUGH JOHN AND REID END UP HAVG A NASTY, PUBLIC FALLG-OUT—MORE ON THAT LATER—JOHN HIMSELF WAS THRILLED TO SEE HIS FIRST MAJOR SEXUAL ENUNTER, AT THE AGE OF 23, RE-CREATED ONSCREEN.“I WAS A VIRG UNTIL THEN,” JOHN HAS EXPLAED OF THE 1970 ENUNTER WH REID, WHO WOULD BEE HIS MANAGER. “I WAS SPERATE TO BE LOVED AND SPERATE TO HAVE A TACTILE THEY TEAR THEIR CLOTH OFF THE MOVIE, THAT WAS HOW HAPPENED. IT WAS SAN FRANCIS.... I’M SO GLAD ’S THERE, BEE I AM A GAY MAN AND I DIDN’T WANT TO AIRBSH UNR THE RPET. THIS IS WHO I AM, AND I WAS SO JOYO. WHEN HE IS LYG MY ARMS AND I’M STG BACK WH A SE, I’M THKG, ‘AH, I’M NORMAL, I’VE HAD SEX’.... THAT NIGHT WAS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT PART.”TOM DOYLE, WHO WROTE THE BOOK CAPTA FANTASTIC, ABOUT JOHN’S REER THROUGH THE ’70S, FURTHER EXPLAED: “IT TOOK REID TO NFIRM ELTON’S SEXUAL PROCLIVI. RETURNG OM A HIGHLY SIGNIFINT NIGHT WH THE ST SAN FRANCIS, HE ADMTED TO [MIC PRODUCER] STEVE BROWN, ‘I’M FELY GAY’.... IT WAS WHOLLY LIBERATG FOR ELTON, AT THE RELATIVELY LATE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE, TO FALLY ACCEPT THE TE NATURE OF HIS SEXUALY. BRAVELY, HE DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO KEEP HIDN OM THOSE CLOST TO HIM.”IN REAL LIFE, THE CHEMISTRY HAD NOT BEEN AS IMMEDIATE FOR JOHN AND REID—A STTISH MIC WUNRKD WHO HAD FIRST N TO JOHN, ACRDG TO DOYLE, AT EMI’S LONDON OFFICE, WHERE JOHN WAS “CHEEKILY SCROUNG[G] EE VYL PI OF THE LATT RELEAS.” REID LATER TOLD THE STTISH DAILY MAIL ABOUT HIS FIRST IMPRSN OF JOHN: “I REMEMBER THIS HIP, SHY YOUNG MAN,” HE RELLED. “THERE WAS A GAWKY SWEETNS ABOUT HIM.”AFTER THE SAN FRANCIS TRIP, JOHN AND REID MOVED TO A FLAT LONDON TOGETHER. “HE WAS MY FIRST GREAT LOVE, AND I WAS HIS,” REID SAID. JOHN’S PRODUCER G DUDGEON EXPLAED TO VH1’S BEHD THE MIC THAT THE TWO WERE “ MANY WAYS THE PERFECT [WERE] VERY UP FOR SPENDG MONEY, PARTYG, HAVG A REALLY GOOD TIME.”REID HAD SIGNED ON TO BE JOHN’S MANAGER, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ADMTEDLY EXPERIENCED THAT AREA OF THE DTRY. ACRDG TO CAPTA FANTASTIC, JOHN’S BOSS AT DJM SAW THE PERK OF THE ARRANGEMENT: “WHO ELSE N WE RELY ON TO GET ELTON OUT OF BED THE MORNG THAN THE GUY HE’S BED WH?” REID WAS NFINT AND HAD KILLER STCTS, HOWEVER: THE FOLLOWG YEAR, HE LNCHED HIS OWN MANAGEMENT PANY, AND WENT ON TO NEGOTIATE UNPRECENTED ALS FOR JOHN. (LATER, THE MANAGER WOULD REPORTEDLY LAMENT HOW EXCSIVE THEY WERE—WONRG WHETHER HE HELPED MAKE THE MIC DTRY “MORE VULGAR.”)BUT BOY, DID JOHN AND REID KNOW HOW TO SPEND MONEY. ACRDG TO A 1974 ROLLG STONE VER STORY, JOHN BOUGHT REID AN APPALOOSA RACEHORSE AND A POWERBOAT FOR HIS 25TH BIRTHDAY. FOR JOHN’S BIRTHDAY, REID SAID HE RECIPROTED BY WALKG TO A PARIS JEWELER AND PICKG OUT THE LARGT EMERALD RG HE ULD FD—ALLEGEDLY WORTH A LN ANCS.GIVEN THAT JOHN AND REID WERE SEPARABLE AND LIVG TOGETHER, THERE WAS PUBLIC SPECULATN ABOUT THE NATURE OF THEIR RELATNSHIP. BUT WHEN JOHN WAS ASKED POT-BLANK BY ROLLG STONE 1974, HE CLAIMED REID WAS “JT MY MANAGER.... I HAVE A CLOSE CIRCLE OF IENDS WHO JT AREN’T THE PUBLIC—SORT OF LIKE ELVIS AND HIS...MOTORBIKE PEOPLE. THEY WERE THE PEOPLE WHO FIRST GAVE BERNIE [TP] AND ME ENURAGEMENT. IT’S VERY MUCH A FAY. THAT’S WHY ’S SO CTUO SOMETIM.”REID WAS FIERCELY LOYAL TO JOHN, BUT ALSO A B OF A HOTHEAD—WH ROLLG STONE VOTG A PARAGRAPH TO REID’S HISTORY OF VLENT ANTICS: “HE TOSSED A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AT A MAN FOR NOT HAVG ENOUGH LIQUOR AT A RECEPTN FOR ELTON; SLAPPED A WOMAN JOURNALIST WHO SLD HIM AND REPORTEDLY LLED HIM A ‘POOF’ (MEANG A GAY); AND HE BEAT AND KICKED ANOTHER JOURNALIST WHOM HE SAID HE HEARD HAD THREATENED ELTON.” HE WAS ALSO SENTENCED TO A MONTH PRISON 1974 FOR ASSLTG A JOURNALIST NEW ZEALAND.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJOHN AND REID’S ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP FIZZLED OUT 1975—WH BOTH MEN CLAIMG THE RELATNSHIP END FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. ACRDG TO REID, JOHN “NEVER HAD A SEXUAL ADOLCENCE. HE NEED TO GO OFF AND PLAY THE FIELD.” BUT ACRDG TO CAPTA FANTASTIC, JOHN SAID THAT REID HAD BEEN “MORE UNFAHFUL THAN I LIKED.”THEIR WORKG RELATNSHIP NTUED UNTIL 1998—THE SAME YEAR THAT JOHN’S DORS DISVERED A £20 LN GAP HIS ACUNTS, AND SHORTLY BEFORE JOHN SUED BOTH PRICEWATERHOECOOPERS AND ANDREW HAYDON, THE FORMER MANAGG DIRECTOR OF JOHN REID ENTERPRIS. SPEAKG ABOUT HIS EX, JOHN SAID, “I TSTED HIM...I NEVER THOUGHT HE WOULD BETRAY ME, BUT HE HAS BETRAYED ME.” WHILE REID SETTLED WH JOHN OUT OF URT, A HIGH-URT HEARG EXAMED JOHN’S EXCSIVE SPENDG OVER THE YEARS—WH A JUDGE ULTIMATELY SIDG WH PRICEWATERHOECOOPERS AND HAYDON.“SIR ELTON’S DIFFERENCE TO THE TAILS OF FANCIAL AND BS MATTERS WAS FOR A LONG TIME POUND BY THE FACT THAT HE HAD SER PROBLEMS WH ALHOL AND DG ABE,” THE JUDGE TERMED, ACRDG TO THE GUARDIAN. DURG THE LEAD-UP TO THE JUDGMENT, THE URT HEARD HOW JOHN SPENT NEARLY £40 LN DURG A 20-MONTH PERD, AND £293,000 ON FLOWERS ALONE. REID ALLEGED, MEANWHILE, THAT LIVG WH JOHN WAS LIKE “TRYG TO HOLD BACK A VAST LEAPS STYLE WERE EXHSTG. HE WOULD GO OUT ONE DAY WH BROWN HAIR AND RETURN THE NEXT WH PK. ONE DAY HE DROVE OFF HIS ESRT, AND I SAID WASN’T VERY ROCK AND ROLL. HE RETURNED THAT AFTERNOON WH A PURPLE ASTON MART.” (IN ROCKETMAN, SHOPPG IS THE ONE ADDICTN JOHN PS TO HAVG NOT OVERE.)RICHARD MADN HAS SAID THAT, WHILE PREPARG TO PLAY REID, HE REACHED OUT TO VAR IENDS OF THE NOW-RETIRED MANAGER—CLUDG DONATELLA VERSACE. (MADN TOLD ELLE THAT THE SIGNER TOLD HIM, “THE THG ABOUT JOHN REID WAS THAT HE WAS NEVER WRONG.”) BUT REID, WHO IS REPORTEDLY LIVG ATRALIA UNR THE RADAR THE DAYS, REMAS SOMETHG OF AN ENIGMA TO MADN.SPEAKG TO THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD, MADN EXPLAED: “EVERYONE HAS A VERY DIFFERENT TAKE AND A VERY DIFFERENT STORY ABOUT HIM.... YOU’VE GOT SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF HIM, BEE HE’S THIS MAN WHO LOV TO FIRE PEOPLE AND THERE’S THIS FORCE, AND THEN OTHER PEOPLE SAYG HE IS THE MOST FUN PERSON YOU ULD POSSIBLY GET, AND IF YOU GET A NIGHT OUT WH JOHN REID, YOU’RE GOG TO HAVE THE BT TIME.” THE NTRADICTORY REPORTS, MADN EXPLAED, “GAVE ME LIBERTY TO PLAY LOTS OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF HIM. THIS MAN THAT PEOPLE LOVE BEG AROUND, BUT ALSO THIS MAN THAT PEOPLE ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF; I GOT TO PLAY WH THE SPECTM OF THAT BEE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT ANECDOT I GOT.”IN AN INTERVIEW NVERSATN WH JOHN, MADN SAID, “THERE’S LOTS ABOUT JOHN REID THAT’S NOT VERY LIKABLE. IT WAS REALLY FUN TO PLAY WH THAT AND BE A CUNT SOMETIM.” JOHN ADD, OF THE TASK OF PORTRAYG HIS EX: “YOU HAVE TO BE BOTH TENR AND A BASTARD.”MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHIN SPE OF THE RELATNSHIP’S UPS AND DOWNS, REID HAS SEEMED REMORSEFUL ABOUT S CLIMACTIC FAL ACT. “IT’S VERY SAD THAT THE LONG RELATNSHIP I HAD WH ELTON HAS END THIS WAY,” REID TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2001, SHORTLY AFTER THE URT LG. “I FEEL THAT THE QUTN MARK THAT HAS BEEN HANGG OVER MY TEGRY FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS HAS BEEN REMOVED, AND THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THG TO ME THIS SE. IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE E TO TRIAL. IT WAS ILL ADVISED.” IN THE YEARS SCE, REID APPEARED BRIEFLY AS A JUDGE ON THE X FACTOR ATRALIA, AND TOLD IENDS OF A PLAN TO WRE A MEMOIR. SEVERAL YEARS BACK, ACRDG TO THE STTISH DAILY MAIL, REID EVEN MA MENTS SUGGTG HE MIGHT BE OPEN TO A RENCILIATN WH JOHN. “I’M FOND OF ELTON, AND PROUD OF THE WORK I DID WH HIM,” HE SAID. “ONE DAY I’LL BUMP TO HIM AND THERE MAY BE HUGS AND KISS. OR MAYBE NOT.”JULIE MILLER
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OBVLY, THEN, HE'S GOG TO BE THE BT LTLE HBAND AND FATHER WHEN HE GROWS UP, RIGHT? BUT JOHN REID KNEW DIFFERENTLY, EVER SCE THE AGE OF ELEVEN WHEN HE FIRST WONRED WHY HE LIKED LOOKG AT THOSE BOXERS SPORTS ILLTRATED. HE KNEW, BUT HE WOULD MAKE SURE NO ONE ELSE EVER DID:"I WOULD SOMEHOW PE. I WOULD SOMEHOW ENJOY HOUR AFTER HOUR OF SMIC PRSN, DAY AFTER DAY, YEAR AFTER YEAR... YOU WOULD NEVER TCH ME ELECTG ART STEAD OF SCIENCE, PLAYG HAMLET STEAD OF PLAYG TENNIS... [OR LOOKG] AT THE 'HO', DRAWER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RD TALOG... DO YOU UNRSTAND? I WASN'T HOMOSEXUAL; I JT SPERATELY WANTED TO BE WBOYS WH CHIP OR WH TOMMY." THE BT LTLE BOY THE WORLDJOHN REID IS, Y, A HEALTHY HOMOSEXUAL. HIS TOBGRAPHY IS THE ONLY "SE HISTORY" I HAVE EVER READ THAT HAS REAL SIARI WH MY OWN EXPERIENCE; FACT, SEVERAL OF THE CINTS HE SCRIBED ALMOST KNOCKED ME OFF MY CHAIR.THE OVERALL TAILS ARE QUE SIAR AND UNEXCG. WE BOTH GREW UP CLOSE, LOVG FAI WH SIBLGS WHO TURNED OUT STRAIGHT. WE BOTH DID WELL SCHOOL AND END UP THE IVY LEAGUE: HE AT YALE, I AT PRCETON. WE BOTH PRETEND TO BE STRAIGHT AS UNRGRADUAT, AND WE BOTH "ME OUT" SOON AFTER GRADUATN.AND WE BOTH RRIED OUT THE CEPTN VERY WELL. REID DID BETTER, BEE HE WAS VERG UP THE FACT THAT HE KNEW HE LIKED MEN; I WAS VERG UP THE FACT THAT I DIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE SEXUAL FEELGS RELATN TO PEOPLE AT ALL. TH, I ALMOST NEVER DATED; I PRETEND TO BE TOO BY. REID DATED EXTENSIVELY, AND EVEN STAYED OVERNIGHT ONCE ( A HOTEL) SO HE ULD WALK THE NEXT MORNG AND HAVE HIS ROOMMAT SEE HIM NONCHALANTLY UNSHAVEN, WEARG THE SAME CLOTH HE MA SURE HE WAS SEEN THE NIGHT BEFORE WH HILDA. HILDA HERSELF HAD BEEN REFULLY SELECTED; SHE WOULD LET HIM PUT HIS HAND ON HER SHOULR, BUT WOULD RIST EVERY TIME HE TRIED TO MOVE DOWN TO HER BREAST. SHE WAS JT ENOUGH OF A P TO LET REID SHOW EVERYONE ELSE WHAT A MOVER HE WAS WHOUT EVER HAVG TO ACTUALLY DO ANYTHG TO (WH?) HER. LATER, HILDA TOLD REID THAT SHE ULDN'T LET HIM GO VERY FAR BEE HE SEEMED TO BE TERTED ONLY HER BODY. OF URSE, NOTHG ULD HAVE BORED REID MORE. BUT A SENSE, SHE WAS RIGHT--REID WAS TERTED HER AS A THG, TO SHOW OFF TO THE OTHER GUYS.LATER, BOTH OF WENT THROUGH THE EVABLE HOW-DO-I-FD-OUT-WHO'S-GAY-WHOUT-RISKG-BEG-FOUND-OUT CRISIS. REID'S SOLUTN STCK HOME WH IGHTENG PRECISN. HE PLANNED TO DRAW UP A "SEXUAL PREFERENCE QUTNNAIRE," PLETELY ANONYMO, AND SEND AROUND TO ALL HIS IENDS, WHO WOULD THK WAS FOR SOME SOCLOGY THIS, FILL OUT, AND RETURN TO A POST OFFICE BOX. REID WOULD LLECT THE REPLI AND THEN INTIFY WHICH IEND FILLED OUT WHICH QUTNNAIRE BY THE ULTRAVLET K HE HAD PREVLY D THEM WH. HE NEVER ACTUALLY DID THIS, OF URSE, BUT THEN AGA NEHER DID I; I HAD PLANNED TO INTIFY THE RETURNED QUTNNARI WH NSPICUO PENCIL DOTS. I RECENTLY TALKED TO A GRADUATE OF LOWELL HOE WHO SAID THAT HE PLANNED TO E SLIGHTLY TORN OR DOG-EARED RNERS. IF YOU'RE READG THIS WH YOUR HEART SKG DOWN TO YOUR TT, JT REMEMBER THAT YOU WOULDN'T REALLY HAVE DONE EHER; THERE ARE VERY FEW NEW IAS THIS WORLD.THE NEXT STAGE IS THE GOD-DO-I-WANT-TO-MEET-THAT-GUY-BUT-IF-I-DID-THEN-I'LL-KNOW-I'M-REALLY-GAY CRISIS. FOR REID, HAPPENED NEW YORK CY. HE WAS WALKG HOME OM WORK, AND SAW ONE OF THOSE UNBELIEVABLE RAVG FAGS: PURSE, APPROXIMATELY PK HAIR, BOOTS UP OVER THE KNE, POODLE, AND SO ON. HIS REACTN WAS DISGT. BUT THEN HE NOTICED THE GUY HE WAS TALKG TO: DARK HAIR, BLUE EY, SIBURNS, BLUE JEANS, FLANNEL SHIRT--UNBELIEVABLY HUNKY. WELL, CLEARLY, THE POODLE GUY WAS... BUT IF HE WAS TALKG TO HIM, THEN HE MT BE, TOO, BUT... GOD, IS THAT GUY HANDSOME!... SHOULD HE GO OVER AND TRODUCE HIMSELF?... BUT THEN EVERYBODY ELSE WOULD... AND OF URSE REID FALLY WALKS RIGHT BY, AND HAS ALWAYS REGRETTED DOG SO.WH ME, HAPPENED SOPHOMORE YEAR. ONE OF MY ROOMMAT AND I LIKED SLEEPG NU, AND ONE NIGHT I ULDN'T SLEEP AND WENT TO THE LIVG ROOM TO READ. TWENTY MUT LATER, MY ROOMMATE FOLLOWED, STILL NU. NOW KEEP MD THE FACT THAT THIS GUY ED TO BE A WRTLER AND WAS BUILT LIKE A DYNAMO; HE WAS STANDG JT ACROSS THE ROOM, READG A MAGAZE ON THE BAR, PLETELY STARKERS, AND PROFILE VIEW. I QUICKLY SHIFTED MY POSN TO SHIELD MY CROTCH OM ANY STRAY GLANC, AND I STARTED GOG BANANAS. I BEGAN TO SHAKE UNNTROLLABLY--ARMS, LEGS, STOMACH--BEE I WAS THE GRIP OF TWO NTROLLABLE FORC. ONE: DON'T GIVE YOURSELF AWAY. TWO: ATTACK HIM. IF WERE POSSIBLE TO GET A HERNIA WHILE STG DOWN, I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ONE. AFTER ABOUT FIVE MUT OF THIS, I GOT UP, TOOK A LD SHOWER, AND WENT BACK TO BED WH PAJAMAS. I MIGHT AS WELL SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE: DIDN'T HELP.REID PRENTS HIMSELF WH REMARKABLE HONTY, WARTS AND ALL; THE ADULT REID IS NO DOUBT AWARE OF THIS OR THAT IMMATURY, THIS OR THAT BLDNS. SOME WILL POUNCE ON THE FACT THAT "JOHN REID" IS A PSDONYM; YOU MAY AS WELL KNOW THAT "CHARL BONNELL" IS, TOO. REID DO TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD NTACT WH HIM; I E MY REAL NAME AT MEETGS LIKE THOSE OF THE HARVARD-RADCLIFFE GAY STUNTS ASSOCIATN. IN NTRAST, SOME OF ALLEN GSBERG'S PARTNERS HAVE LATER FOUND THE PAG OF PLAYBOY ALL THE TAILS OF WHO DID WHAT WH WHOM WHEN; THAT'S A RULT OF TTH.REID'S STORY ANSWERS A LOT OF QUTNS, AND STROYS A FEW MYTHS HELD BY MANY (GAY MEN CLUD). HE HAS NEVER HAD ANAL TERURSE, HE PREFERS NOT TO HAVE ORAL TERURSE, AND HE DLY DISLIK KISSG. WHAT'S LEFT? THE QUTN BETRAYS A MECHANIL OUTLOOK TOWARDS LOVEMAKG. REID'S FIRST EXPERIENCE DIDN'T EVEN VOLVE ASM, BEE HE WAS HAVG SO MUCH FUN HE DIDN'T NOTICE OR RE ABOUT NOT HAVG ONE. THIS IS AN ATTU MORE PEOPLE (GAY MEN CLUD) SHOULD BE AWARE {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTIN SHORT, REID'S BOOK IS GOOD NOSTALGIA FOR THOSE OUT OF THEIR CLOSETS, A GOOD TN FOR THOSE WHOUT CLOSETS, AND HOPEFULLY A GREAT RELIEF TO THOSE OF YOU STILL YOUR CLOSETS. IN THIS LAST SE, THE BT LTLE BOY THE WORLD N HELP BRG FAST FAST FAST RELIEF.CHARL BONNELL IS A STUNT AT THE HARVARD LAW {FONT-SIZE:16.5PX;LE-HEIGHT:26PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;MARG:1EM TO;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;}WANT TO KEEP UP WH BREAKG NEWS? 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- HOMOSEXUAL GOP RAD HOST ASSS REPUBLIN SUG ANOTHER REPUBLIN FOR CALLG HIM A "GAY DEMOCRAT"
ROCKETMAN'S GAY SEX SCENE IS A BIG STEP THE RIGHT DIRECTN
* is john reid gay *
Reid grew up a workg-class suburb of Glasgow, and, at the age of 18, moved to London, claimg he was "tired of beg the only gay the village.
" His reer the mic bs started at a UK Motown label that worked wh The Suprem, Marv Gaye, Stevie Wonr, and The Temptatns.
At a dner meetg wh Freddie Mercury 1975, Reid told the ontman he was gay. "Half my life I'm around liberal, pro-gay people who n't believe that they're talkg to a nservative Republin, " Reid says.
ROCKETMAN: ELTON JOHN’S REAL-LIFE ROLLER-COASTER RELATNSHIP WH JOHN REIDTARON EGERTON AND RICHARD MADN PORTRAY JOHN AND REID’S STEAMY ’70S ROMANCE—THE FIRST RELATNSHIP ELTON JOHN HAD WH A MAN.BY JULIE MILLERMAY 31, 2019ELTON JOHN KISSG HIS MANAGER JOHN REID ON CHEEK, 1979.BY RICHARD YOUNG/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEELTON JOHN WOULD NOT SACRIFICE SEX FOR A PG-13 RATG—NOT LIFE, AND NOT ROCKETMAN, THE MIL BPIC STARRG TARON EGERTON. “EVERYONE KNOWS I HAD QUE A LOT OF [SEX AND DGS] DURG THE ’70S AND ’80S,” JOHN EXPLAED THE GUARDIAN THIS MONTH. “SO THERE DIDN’T SEEM TO BE MUCH POT MAKG A MOVIE THAT IMPLIED THAT AFTER EVERY GIG, I’D QUIETLY GONE BACK TO MY HOTEL ROOM WH ONLY A GLASS OF WARM K AND THE GION’S BIBLE FOR PANY.”FOLLOWG LAST YEAR’S BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY—WHICH DOWNPLAYED FREDDIE MERCURY’S NOTORLY PROLIFIC SEX LIFE—ROCKETMAN’S UNAPOLOGETIC LOVE SCENE BETWEEN ELTON JOHN AND HIS FIRST BOYIEND, JOHN REID (RICHARD MADN), LIGHTED CANN FILM FTIVAL DIENCE MEMBERS. AND EVEN THOUGH JOHN AND REID END UP HAVG A NASTY, PUBLIC FALLG-OUT—MORE ON THAT LATER—JOHN HIMSELF WAS THRILLED TO SEE HIS FIRST MAJOR SEXUAL ENUNTER, AT THE AGE OF 23, RE-CREATED ONSCREEN.“I WAS A VIRG UNTIL THEN,” JOHN HAS EXPLAED OF THE 1970 ENUNTER WH REID, WHO WOULD BEE HIS MANAGER. “I WAS SPERATE TO BE LOVED AND SPERATE TO HAVE A TACTILE THEY TEAR THEIR CLOTH OFF THE MOVIE, THAT WAS HOW HAPPENED. IT WAS SAN FRANCIS.... I’M SO GLAD ’S THERE, BEE I AM A GAY MAN AND I DIDN’T WANT TO AIRBSH UNR THE RPET. THIS IS WHO I AM, AND I WAS SO JOYO. WHEN HE IS LYG MY ARMS AND I’M STG BACK WH A SE, I’M THKG, ‘AH, I’M NORMAL, I’VE HAD SEX’.... THAT NIGHT WAS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT PART.”TOM DOYLE, WHO WROTE THE BOOK CAPTA FANTASTIC, ABOUT JOHN’S REER THROUGH THE ’70S, FURTHER EXPLAED: “IT TOOK REID TO NFIRM ELTON’S SEXUAL PROCLIVI. RETURNG OM A HIGHLY SIGNIFINT NIGHT WH THE ST SAN FRANCIS, HE ADMTED TO [MIC PRODUCER] STEVE BROWN, ‘I’M FELY GAY’.... IT WAS WHOLLY LIBERATG FOR ELTON, AT THE RELATIVELY LATE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE, TO FALLY ACCEPT THE TE NATURE OF HIS SEXUALY. BRAVELY, HE DIDN’T ATTEMPT TO KEEP HIDN OM THOSE CLOST TO HIM.”IN REAL LIFE, THE CHEMISTRY HAD NOT BEEN AS IMMEDIATE FOR JOHN AND REID—A STTISH MIC WUNRKD WHO HAD FIRST N TO JOHN, ACRDG TO DOYLE, AT EMI’S LONDON OFFICE, WHERE JOHN WAS “CHEEKILY SCROUNG[G] EE VYL PI OF THE LATT RELEAS.” REID LATER TOLD THE STTISH DAILY MAIL ABOUT HIS FIRST IMPRSN OF JOHN: “I REMEMBER THIS HIP, SHY YOUNG MAN,” HE RELLED. “THERE WAS A GAWKY SWEETNS ABOUT HIM.”AFTER THE SAN FRANCIS TRIP, JOHN AND REID MOVED TO A FLAT LONDON TOGETHER. “HE WAS MY FIRST GREAT LOVE, AND I WAS HIS,” REID SAID. JOHN’S PRODUCER G DUDGEON EXPLAED TO VH1’S BEHD THE MIC THAT THE TWO WERE “ MANY WAYS THE PERFECT [WERE] VERY UP FOR SPENDG MONEY, PARTYG, HAVG A REALLY GOOD TIME.”REID HAD SIGNED ON TO BE JOHN’S MANAGER, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS ADMTEDLY EXPERIENCED THAT AREA OF THE DTRY. ACRDG TO CAPTA FANTASTIC, JOHN’S BOSS AT DJM SAW THE PERK OF THE ARRANGEMENT: “WHO ELSE N WE RELY ON TO GET ELTON OUT OF BED THE MORNG THAN THE GUY HE’S BED WH?” REID WAS NFINT AND HAD KILLER STCTS, HOWEVER: THE FOLLOWG YEAR, HE LNCHED HIS OWN MANAGEMENT PANY, AND WENT ON TO NEGOTIATE UNPRECENTED ALS FOR JOHN. (LATER, THE MANAGER WOULD REPORTEDLY LAMENT HOW EXCSIVE THEY WERE—WONRG WHETHER HE HELPED MAKE THE MIC DTRY “MORE VULGAR.”)BUT BOY, DID JOHN AND REID KNOW HOW TO SPEND MONEY. ACRDG TO A 1974 ROLLG STONE VER STORY, JOHN BOUGHT REID AN APPALOOSA RACEHORSE AND A POWERBOAT FOR HIS 25TH BIRTHDAY. FOR JOHN’S BIRTHDAY, REID SAID HE RECIPROTED BY WALKG TO A PARIS JEWELER AND PICKG OUT THE LARGT EMERALD RG HE ULD FD—ALLEGEDLY WORTH A LN ANCS.GIVEN THAT JOHN AND REID WERE SEPARABLE AND LIVG TOGETHER, THERE WAS PUBLIC SPECULATN ABOUT THE NATURE OF THEIR RELATNSHIP. BUT WHEN JOHN WAS ASKED POT-BLANK BY ROLLG STONE 1974, HE CLAIMED REID WAS “JT MY MANAGER.... I HAVE A CLOSE CIRCLE OF IENDS WHO JT AREN’T THE PUBLIC—SORT OF LIKE ELVIS AND HIS...MOTORBIKE PEOPLE. THEY WERE THE PEOPLE WHO FIRST GAVE BERNIE [TP] AND ME ENURAGEMENT. IT’S VERY MUCH A FAY. THAT’S WHY ’S SO CTUO SOMETIM.”REID WAS FIERCELY LOYAL TO JOHN, BUT ALSO A B OF A HOTHEAD—WH ROLLG STONE VOTG A PARAGRAPH TO REID’S HISTORY OF VLENT ANTICS: “HE TOSSED A GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE AT A MAN FOR NOT HAVG ENOUGH LIQUOR AT A RECEPTN FOR ELTON; SLAPPED A WOMAN JOURNALIST WHO SLD HIM AND REPORTEDLY LLED HIM A ‘POOF’ (MEANG A GAY); AND HE BEAT AND KICKED ANOTHER JOURNALIST WHOM HE SAID HE HEARD HAD THREATENED ELTON.” HE WAS ALSO SENTENCED TO A MONTH PRISON 1974 FOR ASSLTG A JOURNALIST NEW ZEALAND.MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHJOHN AND REID’S ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP FIZZLED OUT 1975—WH BOTH MEN CLAIMG THE RELATNSHIP END FOR DIFFERENT REASONS. ACRDG TO REID, JOHN “NEVER HAD A SEXUAL ADOLCENCE. HE NEED TO GO OFF AND PLAY THE FIELD.” BUT ACRDG TO CAPTA FANTASTIC, JOHN SAID THAT REID HAD BEEN “MORE UNFAHFUL THAN I LIKED.”THEIR WORKG RELATNSHIP NTUED UNTIL 1998—THE SAME YEAR THAT JOHN’S DORS DISVERED A £20 LN GAP HIS ACUNTS, AND SHORTLY BEFORE JOHN SUED BOTH PRICEWATERHOECOOPERS AND ANDREW HAYDON, THE FORMER MANAGG DIRECTOR OF JOHN REID ENTERPRIS. SPEAKG ABOUT HIS EX, JOHN SAID, “I TSTED HIM...I NEVER THOUGHT HE WOULD BETRAY ME, BUT HE HAS BETRAYED ME.” WHILE REID SETTLED WH JOHN OUT OF URT, A HIGH-URT HEARG EXAMED JOHN’S EXCSIVE SPENDG OVER THE YEARS—WH A JUDGE ULTIMATELY SIDG WH PRICEWATERHOECOOPERS AND HAYDON.“SIR ELTON’S DIFFERENCE TO THE TAILS OF FANCIAL AND BS MATTERS WAS FOR A LONG TIME POUND BY THE FACT THAT HE HAD SER PROBLEMS WH ALHOL AND DG ABE,” THE JUDGE TERMED, ACRDG TO THE GUARDIAN. DURG THE LEAD-UP TO THE JUDGMENT, THE URT HEARD HOW JOHN SPENT NEARLY £40 LN DURG A 20-MONTH PERD, AND £293,000 ON FLOWERS ALONE. REID ALLEGED, MEANWHILE, THAT LIVG WH JOHN WAS LIKE “TRYG TO HOLD BACK A VAST LEAPS STYLE WERE EXHSTG. HE WOULD GO OUT ONE DAY WH BROWN HAIR AND RETURN THE NEXT WH PK. ONE DAY HE DROVE OFF HIS ESRT, AND I SAID WASN’T VERY ROCK AND ROLL. HE RETURNED THAT AFTERNOON WH A PURPLE ASTON MART.” (IN ROCKETMAN, SHOPPG IS THE ONE ADDICTN JOHN PS TO HAVG NOT OVERE.)RICHARD MADN HAS SAID THAT, WHILE PREPARG TO PLAY REID, HE REACHED OUT TO VAR IENDS OF THE NOW-RETIRED MANAGER—CLUDG DONATELLA VERSACE. (MADN TOLD ELLE THAT THE SIGNER TOLD HIM, “THE THG ABOUT JOHN REID WAS THAT HE WAS NEVER WRONG.”) BUT REID, WHO IS REPORTEDLY LIVG ATRALIA UNR THE RADAR THE DAYS, REMAS SOMETHG OF AN ENIGMA TO MADN.SPEAKG TO THE SYDNEY MORNG HERALD, MADN EXPLAED: “EVERYONE HAS A VERY DIFFERENT TAKE AND A VERY DIFFERENT STORY ABOUT HIM.... YOU’VE GOT SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF HIM, BEE HE’S THIS MAN WHO LOV TO FIRE PEOPLE AND THERE’S THIS FORCE, AND THEN OTHER PEOPLE SAYG HE IS THE MOST FUN PERSON YOU ULD POSSIBLY GET, AND IF YOU GET A NIGHT OUT WH JOHN REID, YOU’RE GOG TO HAVE THE BT TIME.” THE NTRADICTORY REPORTS, MADN EXPLAED, “GAVE ME LIBERTY TO PLAY LOTS OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF HIM. THIS MAN THAT PEOPLE LOVE BEG AROUND, BUT ALSO THIS MAN THAT PEOPLE ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED OF; I GOT TO PLAY WH THE SPECTM OF THAT BEE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT ANECDOT I GOT.”IN AN INTERVIEW NVERSATN WH JOHN, MADN SAID, “THERE’S LOTS ABOUT JOHN REID THAT’S NOT VERY LIKABLE. IT WAS REALLY FUN TO PLAY WH THAT AND BE A CUNT SOMETIM.” JOHN ADD, OF THE TASK OF PORTRAYG HIS EX: “YOU HAVE TO BE BOTH TENR AND A BASTARD.”MOST POPULARRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE: THE 6 BIGGT CHANG FROM BOOK TO MOVIEBY SAVANNAH WALSHIN SPE OF THE RELATNSHIP’S UPS AND DOWNS, REID HAS SEEMED REMORSEFUL ABOUT S CLIMACTIC FAL ACT. “IT’S VERY SAD THAT THE LONG RELATNSHIP I HAD WH ELTON HAS END THIS WAY,” REID TOLD THE GUARDIAN 2001, SHORTLY AFTER THE URT LG. “I FEEL THAT THE QUTN MARK THAT HAS BEEN HANGG OVER MY TEGRY FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS HAS BEEN REMOVED, AND THAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THG TO ME THIS SE. IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE E TO TRIAL. IT WAS ILL ADVISED.” IN THE YEARS SCE, REID APPEARED BRIEFLY AS A JUDGE ON THE X FACTOR ATRALIA, AND TOLD IENDS OF A PLAN TO WRE A MEMOIR. SEVERAL YEARS BACK, ACRDG TO THE STTISH DAILY MAIL, REID EVEN MA MENTS SUGGTG HE MIGHT BE OPEN TO A RENCILIATN WH JOHN. “I’M FOND OF ELTON, AND PROUD OF THE WORK I DID WH HIM,” HE SAID. “ONE DAY I’LL BUMP TO HIM AND THERE MAY BE HUGS AND KISS. OR MAYBE NOT.”JULIE MILLER
"And then the other half, I'm around very nservative people, some of whom never thought that they would engage wh an openly gay guy.
As gay, as a Republin. It wasn't Reid's orientatn as gay that surprised him, Crosby says: "The revelatn for me was when he went to work for Gee Allen.
Reid rells a blog that aimed to out gay Republins workg on Capol Hill and their boss as hypocr.
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OBVLY, THEN, HE'S GOG TO BE THE BT LTLE HBAND AND FATHER WHEN HE GROWS UP, RIGHT? BUT JOHN REID KNEW DIFFERENTLY, EVER SCE THE AGE OF ELEVEN WHEN HE FIRST WONRED WHY HE LIKED LOOKG AT THOSE BOXERS SPORTS ILLTRATED. HE KNEW, BUT HE WOULD MAKE SURE NO ONE ELSE EVER DID:"I WOULD SOMEHOW PE. I WOULD SOMEHOW ENJOY HOUR AFTER HOUR OF SMIC PRSN, DAY AFTER DAY, YEAR AFTER YEAR... YOU WOULD NEVER TCH ME ELECTG ART STEAD OF SCIENCE, PLAYG HAMLET STEAD OF PLAYG TENNIS... [OR LOOKG] AT THE 'HO', DRAWER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY RD TALOG... DO YOU UNRSTAND? I WASN'T HOMOSEXUAL; I JT SPERATELY WANTED TO BE WBOYS WH CHIP OR WH TOMMY." THE BT LTLE BOY THE WORLDJOHN REID IS, Y, A HEALTHY HOMOSEXUAL. HIS TOBGRAPHY IS THE ONLY "SE HISTORY" I HAVE EVER READ THAT HAS REAL SIARI WH MY OWN EXPERIENCE; FACT, SEVERAL OF THE CINTS HE SCRIBED ALMOST KNOCKED ME OFF MY CHAIR.THE OVERALL TAILS ARE QUE SIAR AND UNEXCG. WE BOTH GREW UP CLOSE, LOVG FAI WH SIBLGS WHO TURNED OUT STRAIGHT. WE BOTH DID WELL SCHOOL AND END UP THE IVY LEAGUE: HE AT YALE, I AT PRCETON. WE BOTH PRETEND TO BE STRAIGHT AS UNRGRADUAT, AND WE BOTH "ME OUT" SOON AFTER GRADUATN.AND WE BOTH RRIED OUT THE CEPTN VERY WELL. REID DID BETTER, BEE HE WAS VERG UP THE FACT THAT HE KNEW HE LIKED MEN; I WAS VERG UP THE FACT THAT I DIDN'T SEEM TO HAVE SEXUAL FEELGS RELATN TO PEOPLE AT ALL. TH, I ALMOST NEVER DATED; I PRETEND TO BE TOO BY. REID DATED EXTENSIVELY, AND EVEN STAYED OVERNIGHT ONCE ( A HOTEL) SO HE ULD WALK THE NEXT MORNG AND HAVE HIS ROOMMAT SEE HIM NONCHALANTLY UNSHAVEN, WEARG THE SAME CLOTH HE MA SURE HE WAS SEEN THE NIGHT BEFORE WH HILDA. HILDA HERSELF HAD BEEN REFULLY SELECTED; SHE WOULD LET HIM PUT HIS HAND ON HER SHOULR, BUT WOULD RIST EVERY TIME HE TRIED TO MOVE DOWN TO HER BREAST. SHE WAS JT ENOUGH OF A P TO LET REID SHOW EVERYONE ELSE WHAT A MOVER HE WAS WHOUT EVER HAVG TO ACTUALLY DO ANYTHG TO (WH?) HER. LATER, HILDA TOLD REID THAT SHE ULDN'T LET HIM GO VERY FAR BEE HE SEEMED TO BE TERTED ONLY HER BODY. OF URSE, NOTHG ULD HAVE BORED REID MORE. BUT A SENSE, SHE WAS RIGHT--REID WAS TERTED HER AS A THG, TO SHOW OFF TO THE OTHER GUYS.LATER, BOTH OF WENT THROUGH THE EVABLE HOW-DO-I-FD-OUT-WHO'S-GAY-WHOUT-RISKG-BEG-FOUND-OUT CRISIS. REID'S SOLUTN STCK HOME WH IGHTENG PRECISN. HE PLANNED TO DRAW UP A "SEXUAL PREFERENCE QUTNNAIRE," PLETELY ANONYMO, AND SEND AROUND TO ALL HIS IENDS, WHO WOULD THK WAS FOR SOME SOCLOGY THIS, FILL OUT, AND RETURN TO A POST OFFICE BOX. REID WOULD LLECT THE REPLI AND THEN INTIFY WHICH IEND FILLED OUT WHICH QUTNNAIRE BY THE ULTRAVLET K HE HAD PREVLY D THEM WH. HE NEVER ACTUALLY DID THIS, OF URSE, BUT THEN AGA NEHER DID I; I HAD PLANNED TO INTIFY THE RETURNED QUTNNARI WH NSPICUO PENCIL DOTS. I RECENTLY TALKED TO A GRADUATE OF LOWELL HOE WHO SAID THAT HE PLANNED TO E SLIGHTLY TORN OR DOG-EARED RNERS. IF YOU'RE READG THIS WH YOUR HEART SKG DOWN TO YOUR TT, JT REMEMBER THAT YOU WOULDN'T REALLY HAVE DONE EHER; THERE ARE VERY FEW NEW IAS THIS WORLD.THE NEXT STAGE IS THE GOD-DO-I-WANT-TO-MEET-THAT-GUY-BUT-IF-I-DID-THEN-I'LL-KNOW-I'M-REALLY-GAY CRISIS. FOR REID, HAPPENED NEW YORK CY. HE WAS WALKG HOME OM WORK, AND SAW ONE OF THOSE UNBELIEVABLE RAVG FAGS: PURSE, APPROXIMATELY PK HAIR, BOOTS UP OVER THE KNE, POODLE, AND SO ON. HIS REACTN WAS DISGT. BUT THEN HE NOTICED THE GUY HE WAS TALKG TO: DARK HAIR, BLUE EY, SIBURNS, BLUE JEANS, FLANNEL SHIRT--UNBELIEVABLY HUNKY. WELL, CLEARLY, THE POODLE GUY WAS... BUT IF HE WAS TALKG TO HIM, THEN HE MT BE, TOO, BUT... GOD, IS THAT GUY HANDSOME!... SHOULD HE GO OVER AND TRODUCE HIMSELF?... BUT THEN EVERYBODY ELSE WOULD... AND OF URSE REID FALLY WALKS RIGHT BY, AND HAS ALWAYS REGRETTED DOG SO.WH ME, HAPPENED SOPHOMORE YEAR. ONE OF MY ROOMMAT AND I LIKED SLEEPG NU, AND ONE NIGHT I ULDN'T SLEEP AND WENT TO THE LIVG ROOM TO READ. TWENTY MUT LATER, MY ROOMMATE FOLLOWED, STILL NU. NOW KEEP MD THE FACT THAT THIS GUY ED TO BE A WRTLER AND WAS BUILT LIKE A DYNAMO; HE WAS STANDG JT ACROSS THE ROOM, READG A MAGAZE ON THE BAR, PLETELY STARKERS, AND PROFILE VIEW. I QUICKLY SHIFTED MY POSN TO SHIELD MY CROTCH OM ANY STRAY GLANC, AND I STARTED GOG BANANAS. I BEGAN TO SHAKE UNNTROLLABLY--ARMS, LEGS, STOMACH--BEE I WAS THE GRIP OF TWO NTROLLABLE FORC. ONE: DON'T GIVE YOURSELF AWAY. TWO: ATTACK HIM. IF WERE POSSIBLE TO GET A HERNIA WHILE STG DOWN, I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN ONE. AFTER ABOUT FIVE MUT OF THIS, I GOT UP, TOOK A LD SHOWER, AND WENT BACK TO BED WH PAJAMAS. I MIGHT AS WELL SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE: DIDN'T HELP.REID PRENTS HIMSELF WH REMARKABLE HONTY, WARTS AND ALL; THE ADULT REID IS NO DOUBT AWARE OF THIS OR THAT IMMATURY, THIS OR THAT BLDNS. SOME WILL POUNCE ON THE FACT THAT "JOHN REID" IS A PSDONYM; YOU MAY AS WELL KNOW THAT "CHARL BONNELL" IS, TOO. REID DO TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD NTACT WH HIM; I E MY REAL NAME AT MEETGS LIKE THOSE OF THE HARVARD-RADCLIFFE GAY STUNTS ASSOCIATN. IN NTRAST, SOME OF ALLEN GSBERG'S PARTNERS HAVE LATER FOUND THE PAG OF PLAYBOY ALL THE TAILS OF WHO DID WHAT WH WHOM WHEN; THAT'S A RULT OF TTH.REID'S STORY ANSWERS A LOT OF QUTNS, AND STROYS A FEW MYTHS HELD BY MANY (GAY MEN CLUD). HE HAS NEVER HAD ANAL TERURSE, HE PREFERS NOT TO HAVE ORAL TERURSE, AND HE DLY DISLIK KISSG. WHAT'S LEFT? THE QUTN BETRAYS A MECHANIL OUTLOOK TOWARDS LOVEMAKG. REID'S FIRST EXPERIENCE DIDN'T EVEN VOLVE ASM, BEE HE WAS HAVG SO MUCH FUN HE DIDN'T NOTICE OR RE ABOUT NOT HAVG ONE. THIS IS AN ATTU MORE PEOPLE (GAY MEN CLUD) SHOULD BE AWARE {DISPLAY:BLOCK;MARG:0PX TO;WIDTH:100%;MAX-WIDTH:100%;BACKGROUND:TRANSPARENT;PADDG:10PX 0PX;} {FONT-FAY:'COLABORATE LIGHT','LUCIDA SANS UNI',SANS-SERIF;LOR:#333333;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;FONT-SIZE:0.7EM;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;DISPLAY:BLOCK;} {WIDTH:-WEBK-F-NTENT;WIDTH:-MOZ-F-NTENT;WIDTH:F-NTENT;MARG:0PX TO;TEXT-ALIGN:CENTER;}ADVERTISEMENTIN SHORT, REID'S BOOK IS GOOD NOSTALGIA FOR THOSE OUT OF THEIR CLOSETS, A GOOD TN FOR THOSE WHOUT CLOSETS, AND HOPEFULLY A GREAT RELIEF TO THOSE OF YOU STILL YOUR CLOSETS. IN THIS LAST SE, THE BT LTLE BOY THE WORLD N HELP BRG FAST FAST FAST RELIEF.CHARL BONNELL IS A STUNT AT THE HARVARD LAW {FONT-SIZE:16.5PX;LE-HEIGHT:26PX;BOX-SIZG:NTENT-BOX;MAX-WIDTH:600PX;PADDG:0PX 20PX;MARG:0PX TO;MARG:1EM TO;} A{LOR:#7B1B18;}WANT TO KEEP UP WH BREAKG NEWS? 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"But if you see me at a gay bar you n ask me a qutn, " he said, "bee I'm a very iendly guy. There are dance numbers, Bryce Dallas Howard, floatg dienc, a leral rocket man, a much olr Bryce Dallas Howard who aged sudnly, and then, of urse, gay sex.
If a mil about the life of Elton John were created whout any of the parts, wouldn't have been a proper mil about the man's 's that last part—the gay sex—that is important to discs. Happened, or an unted chara of what gay sex might be.
Gay sex isn't somethg that Hollywood typilly picts, stead the dtry relegat to nuendos and close ups of men wcg pa. But the Elton John mil tak a moment to reimage how gay sex uld be picted. It often across like a straight man directg two straight men a gay sex scene.
HOMOSEXUAL GOP RAD HOST ASSS REPUBLIN SUG ANOTHER REPUBLIN FOR CALLG HIM A "GAY DEMOCRAT"
And yet, Rocketman manag to pict a realistic-enough sex scene whout turng the act of terurse or the gayns behd to a villa.
It may not be the first time a film stud has featured a gay sex scene, but do feel like the first time a major motn picture stud took the time to make look like the kd of sex you'd actually want to have. “I’m so glad ’s there bee I am a gay man and I didn’t want to airbsh unr the rpet, ” John told The Irish Mirror of the Rocketman scene.