Was river pheonix actually bisexual?

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

wow River...I completely forgot about him. I was too little to remember him when he was alive but never heard anything about him being bi. I think it was all a part of those grunge years aesthetic to be sexually ambiguous. Industrial,grunge music had that component and MOPI prob paid a role into his image,but I always perceived him as being just like everybody else in those years... Keanu,Depp,Cobain and so on.

[quote]when he was filming MOPI there was rumors

Oh, dear.

[quote]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???

Oh, dear DEAR.

I think he had sexual issues from being in that pedo cult as a kid. Children of god or something?

After he died his former girlfriend Sue Solgot said he would sometimes talk about his bisexuality with he would explore having sex with both girls and guys he had feelings for.

What?

R5 I read about that she never actually said he had sex with men she said that River was very open and spiritual and he could have fell for anyone male or female.

Yes. At least twice.

The spelling is terrible. Anyway I have no idea if he was bisexual or not I know that bisexuals do use him as there "Icon"

R9 Mary!

[quote]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"

He was a Hollywood star, a teen idol, and obviously could not come out as bi or gay. The one who probably knows the truth about River is Keanu but we all know he's never gonna say anything.

R11 River didn't give a shit about being a teen idol. He told the whole world when he was at the top of his game that he got sexually abused when he was 4/5 in that sex cult his family was in.

R11 Don't know about River but fully believe Keanu is gay.

Maybe at some point Keanu will write his autobiography. Maybe in 10 years when some people have died. I like to hear about Hollywood during that period, River, and the whole circumcision story.

Still think he’s cool. I actually can’t wait for the Bill and Ted movie.

[quote]River didn't give a shit about being a teen idol

HE might've not cared but Hollywood did. He was doing Hollywood films up until his death, and was playing the normal PR game. Sure he was a bit edgier than your average Hollywood star but I'm sure he had his managers and reps telling him to behave.

A good friend of mine was there in Hollywood on Halloween 1993 and saw River all the time. She said he seemed openly "gay" but he could have been bi. She was at the Viper Club when RP overdosed and called me that night before it spread all over the news.

R16 Not believing he was gay, there is far to many stories about him being with women. Even years after he died. There was even a blind item about him banging Courtney love at one point. He could certainly be bi though.

My friend said that in the time around his death, River was running around with gay men, kissing them in clubs, no women around.

It's possible he was in a gay phase of his bisexuality, but I believe her.

damn I didn't know about the abuse/cult thing...

R28 he was going out with Samantha Mathis at the time of his death and she was there with him in the viper room when he died so there was girls around. Plus there was that whole thing where Martha plimpton came out a couple of years ago about having an abortion and the timeline was from when she was dating River. He could have been kissing men in clubs but don't buy he was gay.

I meant R18

[quote]I can't picture having sex with a man,

Well then it never happened.

The story goes that Anthony Clark activated his bisexuality on the set of Dogfight, supposedly the first time Phoenix had sex with a man.

R23 proof or it didn't happen

Just reiterating the story told many times on DL over the years, R24. Anthony Clark is gay and was reportedly pretty voracious back in the day.

r25, River let him give him a blowjob, that's all.

The bisexual troll is on a tear

He was an open and vigorous bisexual, but his character in MOPI was gay.

I was a baby when this guy was popular so i had no idea of his golden boy image back then or how popular he was. I knew of him. He never interested me or anything and i find it hard to watch him in movies for some reason. He turns me off. I don't get his appeal. I remember as a kid watching him in stand by me and indiana Jones. I just watched the final 24 about him and then watched interviews and stuff about him in youtube. To me, he came across as VERY feminine and gay. He looked like a lesbian. He seemed kind of dumb and pretentious. Condescending too sometimes. Soft spoken and weird like michael jackson. I don't know what happened to him and i don't get it. It's a mess. Sounds very sinister and scary. I don't understand why he just couldn't play that night. Sounds like some mean girls shit. Hate johnny depp and all the rest of that ilk. Martha Plimpton? That dog. Yea, definitely gay.

I was infatuated with River Phoenix when I was a teenager and he was in Jimmy Reardon. I just loved his beautiful face.

Nevertheless, he seemed harmless, sweet and beautiful. Didn't deserve to go out like that. And if some jealous bitches did some nasty evil shit, i hope they burn in hell.

There was a short British documentary broadcast in the mid-90s, I think, about how important Phoenix was to young gay people at the time. They spoke to several (including a young American dude) who spoke about how much they loved him, how inspirational he was to them and how his death affected them.

Here it is:

River was massively hung, I always heard that back in the 90s in LA when I lived there. I was living there when he died and it was such a huge deal; there were flowers all around the Viper Room, and you couldn't drive east on Sunset.

R33 thanks for posting that. It gave me a better sense of who he was to you teenagers back then. Wow. He was like a little trailblazer for you guys. Doing edgey material. It makes sense the lesbian would be attracted to him. He had that androgynous look going on. Once you do drugs people can always use that as a way to get rid of you. You just die looking like a druggy. Terrible. So sad. I forgot i saw him in private idaho a couple years back for the first time. I barely remember it. Thought it was slow and boring. I liked that clip. He was very sweet and sad and tender there. I should probably watch again now. I can't help but wonder though, would anyone care if he wasn't pretty? And that's sad too. This world man. Just terrible all around.

River I loved him! I have also seen on other blogs and gossip sites about him being hung I wonder who blabbed about it.

Whoa! Did River's dick in my mouth make me look gay dude?

do you think Joaquin Phoenix is a better actor then him or was River at the time really established. I can't tell what level of talent he had.

River is the better actor of the two and one of the most naturally gifted actors of all time. He wasn't technically brilliant, but just had incredible intuition.

What's the downlow about the feud between him and Judy Davis? Apparently she suspected he was on drugs during the movie they were shooting and flipped out.

thanks. shit what a waste of talent. I always thought Joaquin was a brilliant actor, I like him because he's like an outsider ,those actor that are always on the verge of making it but never really fully make it.

r40 There wasn't a feud, as such. She just didn't have much time for the way everyone around River mollycoddled him and enabled his self-destructiveness. She's apparently very upfront, direct and honest, which River seemingly wasn't used to and so there was an uneasiness between them. She advised him to get out of films for a while and do some theater work in New York, so he could learn the skills needed to portray a character without being dragged down by it. I think he really respected her. The real feud she had was with the film's director, who she thought was an exploitative asshole.

[quote]Maybe in 10 years when some people have died. I like to hear about Hollywood during that period, River, and the whole circumcision story.

Wait, what?

r42, love Judy! She didn't play that Hollywood bullshit. River's fans still accuse her of killing him, because apparently a few mean comments made him shoot up... please.

quote]but I'm sure he had his managers and reps telling him to behave.

I remember an interview with Martha Plimpton where she talked about how she couldn't go to premieres with him because his reps wanted him to be seen as single as to retain his young fans.  It's not hard to imagine them trying to control everything else about him.

My friend was in love with him. She had boyfriends but then surprised us all by falling in love with, and living with a woman for a decade.

I thought he was pretty but he didn’t interest me. He didn’t seem 100% straight to me.

OP, post that Youtube video.

Here it is, R47.