River phoenix was gay

Was river pheonix actually bisexual?

For some strange reason I maintain seeing posts on twitter by people claiming that River Phoenix was a 'bisexual icon', but is there any actual proof to this? I know about the bromance between him and Keanu reeves and when he was filming MOPI there was rumours that he was experimenting for his role. But I also found a video on YouTube from research footage that he made with a group of friends about male prostitution where they interviewed male prostitues, one of the prostitues was bisexual and recently fathered a child and was going into detail about sleeping with the mother of his child and stating that he had sex with men for money and drugs but only actually enjoys sex with women and river says something like "I can't picture having sex with a man, I have nothing against it but it just doesn't attract me" something along those lines???

by Anonymousreply 48July 12, AM

He's a bi boy as Mike in My Private Idaho.

by Anonymousreply 1May 13, PM

wow RiverI completely forgot about him. I was too little to remember him whe

The Untold Truth Of River Phoenix

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Fondly dubbed "the vegan James Dean" because of his similar brooding adj looks and on-screen intensity, River Phoenix was poised to be a face and voice of his generation. His soulful movie performances coupled with his real-life passion for animal rights advocacy foreshadowed the trend of celebrity social justice crusaders that's almost ubiquitous today. But tragically, Phoenix died just after his 23rd birthday on October 31, , leaving behind an unfinished legacy that continues to haunt Hollywood and his dedicated fans. For many youngsters, Phoenix's death was their first experience with the loss of a beloved movie star, and for some, it was their first encounter with death at all. "This is the death of our dream," one bereaved young fan told The Independent. 

However, River Phoenix's years on Earth, as brief as they might've been, were filled with music, art, and beauty as Phoenix cultivated his talents in the public eye. As an actor, dancer, songwriter, and guitarist, Phoenix

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We All Live Down River

by James A. Baggett

One reporter tries to make sense of the Phoenix he knew. Who cares if River Phoenix was gay or straight? I don't, and I knew him. Sort of. As the editor of a teen screen magazine during the overdue 80's, I was on a first-name basis with most of Hollywood's box-office boys : Johnny, Robert, Christian, Charlie, Val, Matthew, Dweezil, all the Coreys, all the Jasons, and � love every other flack-bombarded homo journalist in New York � River. Antimacho, quietly intense, physically gifted, politically correct, garage-band jamming, animal-rights activist, child of flower children, herbal-tea drinking River Phoenix.

Ever since the year-old actor dropped dead outside the entrance to the Viper Room on L.A.'s Sunset Strip last Halloween, Phoenix's sexuality has been the subject of cocktail conversation among both gays and straights across the country. Speculation soon lost touch with reality. "A excellent thing I try to hold in mind," Phoenix told me during our first interview, adj in , "is not to get lost. I try not to

The River Phoenix Pages

This documentary film, directed and produced by William Parry and shown on Channel 4 Television in the UK as part of the Celluloid Icons season, focussed on River as an icon for gay men, lesbians and bisexuals. River's relaxed attitude to sexuality coupled with his sensitive performance in "My Own Private Idaho" as a gay man looking for love rather than merely sex made him a role model for many gay people who feel he had integrity and sensitivity apart from the Hollywood norm.

The film featured contributions from four young people who identified with River, particularly in his role as Mike Waters in Idaho together with interviews with Mike Parker (the basis for the Mike Waters character) and Abigail Greenberg, River's personal assistant.

Particularly interesting was Mike Parker's explanation of how River re-wrote the famous Idaho campfire scene - River had asked Mike how he would have behaved in such a situation. Two days later he showed the new script he had written to Mike and asked him "Do you believe this is pretty close to how you feel?". Mik