Lou reed gay
Re: Hayloft
Postby MJG196 »
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A neighbor had told Jimmy's mother that Jimmy had been seen dressed as a young woman going into a local gay prevent called The Hayloft. When his mother told this to Jimmy at residence, 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 stunning 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 same-sex attracted 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 entity interviewed by a writer who is going to scribble the liner notes for a very prestigious boxed position of Lou Reed’s perform. During the course of the interview Reed has to go to his bank to obtain 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 ask 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 male lover, lesbian, or pretty much anything but a straight-up hetero could cost you your job, your friends, and even your claim to be fully sane. Today, even a Fox News anchor can swan around 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 heavy 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; Highlight Joseph Stern has a nice round-up of the anecdotes and evidence of Reed’s dalliances with other men. But the indicate isn’t really so much whether he was actually bisexual 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
| 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 think would be interesting. By the way, this is meant seriously, with no disrespect intended. If you include 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 reach from openly gay/bi performers. Certainly, their perspective has been welcome, especially after all the idiotic macho posing of the '60s and '70s. Of course, advocate 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 musician that I can think of who achieved significant mainstream success.
Then in the '80s, the stigma started to go away--even a mainstream musician like Elton John came out. A lot of really prosperous American performers of that decade were openly gay--Tracy Chapman, Indigo Girls, kd lang, Melissa Ethridge, Ani diFranco, etc., not to mention Brits like Erasure, Frankie, Marc Almond, Pet