EXCLUSIVE. Whney Hoton's clost iends believe she was bisexual and a gay relatnship wh her assistant Robyn Crawford. One even believ g out uld have saved her life.
Contents:
- ONE OF THE MOST UNR-EXAMED DIMENSNS OF WHNEY HOTON’S LEGACY IS HER STAT AS A GAY IN
- INSI WHNEY HOTON’S SECRET TORMENT FOR BEG GAY, FALLG FOR A WOMAN
- WAS WHNEY HOTON GAY? EXPLORG THE LEGENDARY SGER’S SEXUALY
- WAS WHNEY HOTON GAY? NEW BOOK CLAIMS LIVG A CLOSETED LIFE STROYED LEGEND
- WHNEY HOTON'S GAY LOVER TELLS ALL NEW BOOK
ONE OF THE MOST UNR-EXAMED DIMENSNS OF WHNEY HOTON’S LEGACY IS HER STAT AS A GAY IN
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And pecially as a gay man. Many queer people – and particularly gay men – see slic of their own stggl and aspiratns reflected the beloved superstar’s life and work, and her prence ronat throughout queer culture. (Remember that charmg dance sequence the 2018 g-of-age movie “Love, Simon, ” about a closeted gay teen?
“I do not thk that anyone would dispute Hoton’s gay inicy, ” the French amic Ge-Cl Guilbert wr his 2018 book, “Gay Ins: The (Mostly) Female Entertaers Gay Men Love. How did Hoton bee, and rema, a gay in?
“When I go to llege Los Angel, I’ll be gay and proud, ” he promis. As he sticks a poster of Hoton on his imaged dorm room wall, the sger’s 1987 smash “I Wanna Dance Wh Somebody (Who Lov Me)” – a mt-play at gay bars and queer dance parti – kicks . Simon envisns what would be like to make through high school and live a full and happy life as an out gay man, prancg around mp.
INSI WHNEY HOTON’S SECRET TORMENT FOR BEG GAY, FALLG FOR A WOMAN
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Kennedy went on, sayg of the release of 1998’s “My Love Is Your Love” and “It’s Not Right but It’s Okay” (that a remix of the latter is a gay anthem is beyond dispute), “I remember that was the moment when I, a Black queer boy growg up the Midwt, which was super opprsive, felt ee. But was clear few uld agree when me to Hoton’s sexualy, pecially her relatnship wh long-time iend and openly gay woman Robyn some kd of lost diary surfac, fans will never hear om Whney directly.
The relatnship eventually end bee of homophobic are still very few openly queer black women the public eye, and while I want to make very clear that homophobia wh the black muny is not greater than or a larger societal problem than homophobia wh whe muni or otherwise, there is a generatnal feel to . If her dghter had been gay, Cissy Hoton said, she wouldn’t have ndoned .
WAS WHNEY HOTON GAY? EXPLORG THE LEGENDARY SGER’S SEXUALY
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” Crawford says she and Hoton, "never talked about labels, like lbian or gay. ”Both 2017's "Whney: Can I Be Me" and 2018's "Whney" highlight the faial homophobia that surround Hoton, as well as the prsure she felt om a homophobic, racist, patriarchal society and entertament bs.
Now, as a black and openly gay woman, she's reclaimg who she is, and who Hoton was to her. But what Crawford allows to mate on is how others have been able to dictate a culture of homophobia.
Together that summer, they sunbathed at the Jersey Shore, went to gay clubs, and ma out a rental r before beg told to move along by a p. “They were partners a tradnal sense but never had a real nversatn about labels — lbian, gay, bisexual, girliend, ” Kennedy wr.
WAS WHNEY HOTON GAY? NEW BOOK CLAIMS LIVG A CLOSETED LIFE STROYED LEGEND
The church and the rerd dtry were both so homophobic, Whney knew the affair had to end when Clive Davis gave her a rerd al. “Was she gay? Their partnership ma sense: Bobby need to class up his bad boy image and Whney need to pe the gay mors.
And yet, four years after they wed, Katie Couric asked Whney about Robyn and the gay mors once aga. Even the Village People shied away om their queer origs when they h big wh their licly gay anthem “YMCA. Whney was already grdg toward her reer, but take that off the table and you have a teenage girl experiencg a same-sex romance right at the onset of AIDS, an epimic that would be met not jt wh blatant homophobia disguised as moral panic but msagg rooted shame.
WHNEY HOTON'S GAY LOVER TELLS ALL NEW BOOK
Now we have Frank Ocean, Kehlani and Janelle Monáe progrsg R&B wh their sounds while centerg their sexualy; Lil Nas X was able to bee the first gay rapper to top the pop charts; shows like “Empire” and “Pose” and queer creators like Lena Wahe and Ja Mock have shifted the way Black queer characters are reprented film and on televisn.