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- GAY HISTORY – REMEMBERG BISEXUAL ACTOR BRAD DAVIS WHO FOUGHT FOR WORK AND DIGNY WHILE BATTLG AIDS
- #BORNTHISDAY: ACTOR & GAY IN, BRAD DAVIS
GAY HISTORY – REMEMBERG BISEXUAL ACTOR BRAD DAVIS WHO FOUGHT FOR WORK AND DIGNY WHILE BATTLG AIDS
Instead, languished, due somewhat to homophobia — his bisexualy was generally known if not always acknowledged — and more directly due to his own dg and alhol abe. In 1983, he took a profsnal risk playg a gay sailor Raer Werner Fassbr’s Querelle (which flopped), and a dyg man of AIDS Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart. You are here: Home / LBGTQ / Bisexual / #BornThisDay: Actor & Gay In, Brad Davis.
His volvement gay-themed projects was not always a good reer move the late 1970s.
It never really bounced back om the hallucatg Querelle (1983) or his stage work wh gay playwrights. The speculatn about his own possible gayns worked very much agast him, spe his spectacular actg talent. Along wh those gay mors, Davis ro dgs and sex to an early ath om HIV.
#BORNTHISDAY: ACTOR & GAY IN, BRAD DAVIS
Davis’s bt iend, wrer Rodger McFarlane, an openly gay man, said:. “Jt bee Brad had sex wh men don’t mean he was a homosexual. His widow San Blute Davis, an Emmy Award wng stg director, claims that she knew that he worked a gay htler bar and lived wh a drag queen before makg big, but she wrote her memoir After Midnight: The Life and Death of Brad Davis (1992):.
“I don’t know why everyone wants to believe Brad was gay. I want to believe that Davis was gay bee he was so very nvcg all of the gay rol that he played durg his 20 year reer. Davis had to live wh all those mors about his sexualy durg his life, but sce he has been gone, he has bee a Gay In.
Anyone who ever had a buddg gay libido, cludg me, saw him on the screen and projected all their post-adolcent fantasi onto him. Davis teased wh the shower scene a Turkish prison Midnight Exprs (1978), and the gay sailor Querelle wearg a tank top and whe jeans so tight that the film’s gay director Raer Werner Fassbrclared that the troers “revealed what relign Davis wasn’t”. Querelle was one of the first films wh an unabashed gay theme to have box-office succs.