Lou reed gay
| Posted on Friday, September 22, 2006 - 07:01 pm: |
Things are getting a little slow around here, so it's time to start a potentially controversial thread that I reflect would be interesting. By the way, this is meant seriously, with no disrespect intended. If you have a problem with the topic, please don't post to it!
It seems like a lot of great music in the past few decades has come from openly gay/bi performers. Certainly, their perspective has been welcome, especially after all the stupid macho posing of the '60s and '70s. Of course, back in the '60s, no one dared come out. Then Bowie (who was probably straight or bi at most) did it, which launched or at least legitimized glam. Tom Robinson was the first openly (and honestly) gay performer that I can contemplate of who achieved significant mainstream success.
Then in the '80s, the stigma started to go away--even a mainstream performer favor Elton John came out. A lot of really successful American performers of that decade were openly gay--Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls, kd lang, Melissa Ethridge, Ani diFranco, etc., not to mention Brits enjoy Erasure, Frankie, Marc Almond, Pet
Re: Hayloft
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A neighbor had told Jimmy's mother that Jimmy had been seen dressed as a lady going into a local gay exclude called The Hayloft. When his mother told this to Jimmy at abode, he told her to sit at the kitchen table and wait while he left the room. When he reappeared, he was in drag. His mother later told a friend of Candy's that "I knew then... that I couldn't interrupt Jimmy. Candy was just too pretty and talented." - http://www.warholstars.org/stars/candy.html
After attending Catholic schools, Kikel entered St. John?s University in Queens, NY in 1960. On the outside, he was a conventional student majoring in English. He joined a fraternity and had a girl friend. But on weekend nights, he frequented male lover bars in nearby Jackson Heights and on Long Island. It was around this time that he brought his sister (his only sibling) to a gay bar called the Hayloft. - https://markthomaskrone.wordpress.com/c ... n-history/
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Ha ha. Fucking Lou Reed.
People constantly speculated about Lou Reed’s sexuality. He was an enthusiastic participant in the NYC gay underworld; the gay bars and bathhouses and S&M clubs. And he lived for 3 years with a drag queen partner. But he also married 3 women and had long-term relationships with women.
As a person Lou Reed was incredibly prickly, abrasive, arrogant, self-centered, narcissistic. In a typically grotesque scene in this bio, Reed is creature interviewed by a writer who is going to note the liner notes for a very prestigious boxed put of Lou Reed’s serve . During the course of the interview Reed has to go to his bank to earn some money from his ATM. Reed is waiting on line at the ATM when he notices a homeless guy sleeping in the vestibule. “THAT’S DISGUSTING!” says Lou Reed. He actually goes into the bank and tells the bank manager that he wants the homeless guy kicked out immediately.
The writer of this bio — who was otherwise a huge Lou Reed fan — was repulsed by this exchange. “No scrutinize the image of Lou Reed, of all people, kicking a needy person out of a bank into the freezing cold is like so
How Lou Reed Showed It’s OK to Be Gay
Barely over 40 years ago, being “outed” as gay, lesbian, or pretty much anything but a straight-up hetero could cost you your employment, your friends, and even your claim to be fully sane. Today, even a Fox News anchor can swan around Brand-new York with his boyfriend without raising anyone’s eyebrows—as Gawker discovered recently, when it tried to make an issue out of Shepard Smith’s apparent sexuality and got only a little remonstrative head-shaking from other media in response.
Those songs, especially when performed by a guy in dense mascara and leather pants, presented something shocking and new.
One of the catalysts behind this welcome societal sea-change is surely the art and example of the matchless Lou Reed. He may have been the world’s first openly out rock star; Mark Joseph Stern has a nice round-up of the anecdotes and evidence of Reed’s dalliances with other men. But the point isn’t really so much whether he was actually double attraction or pansexual or whatever—it’s that everyone thought he was. It was part of his deliberately transgresssive, drug-stabbing, weird-sex-having image. (The w