River phoenix was gay

Hi there! :)

Yeah, I personally believe so. I can’t tell for sure that he got deeply interested with men as he did with women, or if he just experimented, but I undertake believe he was. Also, some people who were really close to him have already talked about it. I’ll quote some of them here so you can perceive better what I’m talking about.

Suzanne Solgot [Riv’s ex-girlfriend] said once in a interview that “If he loved somebody, male or female, he felt he should review it out.”

Gus Van Sant also talked about it. “River dropped clues about his sexuality, but I never really followed them up,” says Van Sant, who is homosexual. Phoenix asked relentless questions about Van Sant’s relationship with his boyfriend: “What, exactly, do you do in bed? which side perform you sleep on? Do you ever tell him to shut up? if you’re angry at him, do you still buy him an expensive birthday present?” Van Sant says, “I would laugh because these questions were so personal, and he’d say, What? What?’”

Mike Parker [whom Riv’s character in MOPI was based on] said that “Everybody has a level of cur

Out, February/March 1994
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 late 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 � like every other flack-bombarded homo journalist in Brand-new York � River. Antimacho, quietly intense, physically gifted, politically correct, garage-band jamming, animal-rights activist, youngster of flower children, herbal-tea drinking River Phoenix.
Ever since the 23-year-old actor dropped deceased 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 region. Speculation soon confused touch with existence. "A good thing I try to keep in mind," Phoenix told me during our first interview, early in 1988, "is not to get confused. I try not to get caught up in the whole scene and get carried away. It gets so intense out there som

Anonymous asked:
Where are the receipts that river was bisexual?
Here’s some:
“There is no doubt in my thought that River was bisexual. I spoke with someone who knew him through PETA functions and she said that, after some of the functions, they used to go swimming in a river and everyone would accept off their clothes including underwear. [River was a “boxers man”, by the way.] Then, they would get dressed and travel dancing, and she said River would always dance and tease with men. Women were flocking [to] him, trying to find into his pants, [but] he had no interest in them” - A source from In Search of River Phoenix (Biography)
“In late 1992, a gay filmmaker (not Van Sant) staying at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles heard a knock at midnight and discovered Phoenix outside, drunk and wanting to chat about his struggles with bisexuality. The filmmaker reassured him that it would all work out” - Esquire, March 1994
In 1993 he was asked about the rumours of his bisexuality and he didn’t deny them but said something like (and I don’t have the exact quote because the article seems to include been removed from the web), whether he wanted a male or a woman depended on which sid

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 homosexual 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 honesty 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 think this is pretty close to how you feel?". Mike said simply "Yes".
"Up until that point, the plan of actually loving another man was somethi