Was It Good For The Gays: ‘My Own Private Idaho’ | Decir

Contents:

• ON THIS GAY DAY: REMEMBERG ACTOR RIVER PHOENIX
• GAY PHOENIX
• WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO’

ON THIS GAY DAY: REMEMBERG ACTOR RIVER PHOENIX

Michael "Mikey" Waters is a gay htler sufferg om narlepsy, and right before he falls victim to random bouts of sleep, he is burned by disjoted dreams of his mother and his childhood. [quote]and river says somethg like "I n't picture havg sex wh a man, I have nothg agast but jt don't attract me"He was a Hollywood star, a teen idol, and obvly uld not e out as bi or gay. She said he seemed openly "gay" but he uld have been bi.

R16 Not believg he was gay, there is far to many stori about him beg wh women.

GAY PHOENIX

My iend said that the time around his ath, River was nng around wh gay men, kissg them clubs, no women 's possible he was a gay phase of his bisexualy, but I believe Anonymoreply 18May 13, 2018 1:29 PM. Anthony Clark is gay and was reportedly pretty vorac back the Anonymoreply 25May 13, 2018 2:24 PM.

To me, he me across as VERY feme and gay. There was a short Brish documentary broadst the mid-90s, I thk, about how important Phoenix was to young gay people at the time.

WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO’

Did River's dick my mouth make me look gay du? "In 1991, even 14 years before Brokeback Mounta, the nventnal Hollywood wisdom was that was reer suici for a leadg man to be intified as gay, " Gav Edwards, thor of Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behd, tells BBC Culture. The homoerotic tensn mounts as Van Sant ptur the moment of tellg your bt iend you are love wh them wh the same theatril tensn as guns beg drawn a Wtern.

Registerg as a reverential artefact their filmographi, My Own Private Idaho took s stars to plac where Hollywood wouldn't take s heartthrobs: to polil and artistic exprsn wh dg-dazed homosexual htlers.

In the film he played a gay street htler searchg for belongg. Back the early 90’s both Phoenix and Reev’ agents tried to dissua them om takg on the rol, advisg that playg a gay or bisexual character uld have a negative effect on their reers. In 2009 the actor shared that he was gay and said that he’d kept his sexualy a secret throughout most of his reer out of fear that would stop him gettg rol on the fay iendly TV shows he was bt known for.