Gay unrcurrent trickl through great 'Red River'

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• GAY UNRCURRENT TRICKL THROUGH GREAT 'RED RIVER'
• QUEERG JOHN WAYNEWAS HE ‘MASCULE’—OR ACTG?JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·10 M READ·JUL 6, 2021--9SHAREWHAT DO PEOPLE MEAN BY THE WORD “MASCULE” — AND WHY IS JOHN WAYNE IS SO OFTEN ASSOCIATED WH THIS TRA? THE HOLLYWOOD ACTOR WASN’T EVEN NAMED ‘JOHN WAYNE’.HE WAS MARN MORRISON, LLED ‘DE’. HE WAS A CHS-PLAYER, A DANCER, A B FEMME HIS BEARG. HE WAS AN ACTOR WHO PLAYED A PART OF A WBOY LARGELY CREATED BY JOHN FORD, A CLOSETED GAY DIRECTOR OM MAE.HE’S KNOWN AS AN IN OF “MASCULY.”MANY SEEM NOT TO KNOW WAS AN ILLN, MERE MOVIEMAKG. WE N FOLLOW A YOUNG ‘DE’ WHO GREW UP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—AN ATHLETE, PLAYG FOOTBALL, SURFG.IS HE ULTRA-MASCULE?HIS LOOKS N CHANGE VERY UNEXPECTEDLY.THIS SEEMS TO BE A MAN WHO SANK TO THE ROL HE PLAYED, A SHAPE-SHIFTG BEG, A CHAMELEON. AN ACTOR.DE MORRISON WAS A DANCER.IN A 1997 STUDY, JOHN WAYNE’S AMERI, GARRY WILLS LGERS ON THIS POT, AND C A FEW UNEXPECTED FACTS. NOTG HIS SMALL FEET, KATHARE HEPBURN SPOKE OF THE “DANCER’S STEPS HE TOOK WH THEM.” A WOMAN WHO KNEW WAYNE PARED HIM TO NUREYEV, THE GREAT (GAY) BALLET DANCER.RICHARD WIDMARK RELLED THE ACTOR JOHN WAYNE TELLG HIM ON THE SET OF THE ALAMO: “GODDAMM, BE GRACEFUL — LIKE ME!”IT MIGHT NOT BE AN EFFECT THE DIENCE WOULD PROCS. BUT AS MUCH AS NUREYEV ON STAGE, ‘JOHN WAYNE’ WAS A LEAPG FIGURE OUT OF A DREAM.RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHS RUDOLF NUREYEV 1961; JOHN WAYNE ADVENTURE COMIC (FEBARY 1952)THE MERA WAS EVER WORKG TO BUTCH HIM UP.
• FILM REVIEW; GLIMPS OF THE GAY LIFE: A HOLLYWOOD PERSPECTIVE

GAY UNRCURRENT TRICKL THROUGH GREAT 'RED RIVER'

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QUEERG JOHN WAYNEWAS HE ‘MASCULE’—OR ACTG?JONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED ???????????·10 M READ·JUL 6, 2021--9SHAREWHAT DO PEOPLE MEAN BY THE WORD “MASCULE” — AND WHY IS JOHN WAYNE IS SO OFTEN ASSOCIATED WH THIS TRA? THE HOLLYWOOD ACTOR WASN’T EVEN NAMED ‘JOHN WAYNE’.HE WAS MARN MORRISON, LLED ‘DE’. HE WAS A CHS-PLAYER, A DANCER, A B FEMME HIS BEARG. HE WAS AN ACTOR WHO PLAYED A PART OF A WBOY LARGELY CREATED BY JOHN FORD, A CLOSETED GAY DIRECTOR OM MAE.HE’S KNOWN AS AN IN OF “MASCULY.”MANY SEEM NOT TO KNOW WAS AN ILLN, MERE MOVIEMAKG. WE N FOLLOW A YOUNG ‘DE’ WHO GREW UP SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA—AN ATHLETE, PLAYG FOOTBALL, SURFG.IS HE ULTRA-MASCULE?HIS LOOKS N CHANGE VERY UNEXPECTEDLY.THIS SEEMS TO BE A MAN WHO SANK TO THE ROL HE PLAYED, A SHAPE-SHIFTG BEG, A CHAMELEON. AN ACTOR.DE MORRISON WAS A DANCER.IN A 1997 STUDY, JOHN WAYNE’S AMERI, GARRY WILLS LGERS ON THIS POT, AND C A FEW UNEXPECTED FACTS. NOTG HIS SMALL FEET, KATHARE HEPBURN SPOKE OF THE “DANCER’S STEPS HE TOOK WH THEM.” A WOMAN WHO KNEW WAYNE PARED HIM TO NUREYEV, THE GREAT (GAY) BALLET DANCER.RICHARD WIDMARK RELLED THE ACTOR JOHN WAYNE TELLG HIM ON THE SET OF THE ALAMO: “GODDAMM, BE GRACEFUL — LIKE ME!”IT MIGHT NOT BE AN EFFECT THE DIENCE WOULD PROCS. BUT AS MUCH AS NUREYEV ON STAGE, ‘JOHN WAYNE’ WAS A LEAPG FIGURE OUT OF A DREAM.RICHARD AVEDON PHOTOGRAPHS RUDOLF NUREYEV 1961; JOHN WAYNE ADVENTURE COMIC (FEBARY 1952)THE MERA WAS EVER WORKG TO BUTCH HIM UP.

"Still, unlike Brokeback Mounta, whose claim to art and entertament rts on s gayns, the bety of a movie like Red River is that has somethg for everyone.

FILM REVIEW; GLIMPS OF THE GAY LIFE: A HOLLYWOOD PERSPECTIVE

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