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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.
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.
GAY PHOENIX
There was a short Brish documentary broadst the mid-90s, I thk, about how important Phoenix was to young gay people at the time. 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.
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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.
WAS IT GOOD FOR THE GAYS: ‘MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO’
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. Before Good Will Huntg and Fdg Forrter; before the ill-advised Psycho remake and the experimental Gerry; before the movi about Harvey Milk and Kurt Coba, Portland-based die tr G Van Sant ma My Own Private Idaho, an avant-gar drama starrg River Phoenix as a narleptic gay htler and Keanu Reev as his iend and film was part of a new wave of gay cema, and add to Phoenix's burgeong reputatn as a sensive, broodg actor, ma all the more tragic by his sudn ath two years later.
Van Sant was leavg ambiguo whether eher of the htlers was actually gay. But everyone Hollywood told him a story of gay htlers was too "niche" to get any tractn. I thk largely was the gay male htler aspect.
"Although "gay htler film" may seem like a cliche genre at this pot, when was origally released 1991, starrg River Phoenix and Keanu Reev the central rol, no one had ma a movie that addrsed the subject wh such blunt honty. Wh a new Blu-ray versn available om Crern--that clus extras such as a discsn between Van Sant and Todd Hayn, another filmmaker who tackled gay them his films to cril acclaim--'s time for a new generatn to disver one of the most groundbreakg queer films of the past 25 years and to appreciate how helped make other pivotal cema First, I wanted to say that My Own Private Idaho was the first "gay" movie I ever saw, sce somehow end up the ltle shop where we uld rent VHS tap on the Air Force Base Japan where I went to high Van Sant: Thanks, I hear a lot of different stori like that om certa generatns, this story about beg their first gay film. The character that River was playg was meant to be a straight character, not a gay character.