Great article about Elvis' sexuality

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I recently watched Girls! Girls! Girls! on Amazon Prime. Elvis gave off sexually ambiguous vibes in that movie. Like he wasn’t afraid to be seen as gay.

I used to love Elvis. But lately, I've been sick of hearing about him.

He was gay. Gay gay gay.

He couldn't fuck Priscilla? She was a hot little piece back then.

R3 How come? This is the most attention he’s gotten in over 20 years.

The new Elvis movie turned me into an Elvis fan. Before I was indifferent towards him.

He used to click those Blue Suede Shoes three times and say ‘There’s No Place Like Graceland!’

Look at how doughy and untoned and unmuscular Elvis's body is. No way in hell would a young male entertainer be allowed to have a body like this today. He would be ordered to muscle up.

Gen Xer here, and Elvis was my first crush. I remember seeing an old TV program about the early years of his career, and I distinctly remember feeling some kind of arousal, seeing him shake those hips. All these years later and Elvis still turns me on.

R9 I think the new Elvis movie did a great job of communicating how hot and scandalous that hip shaking was.

It really was r10. It's hard for us to imagine today, but his hip shaking had people in hysterics. It was basically pornographic by the standards of those times, if you can believe it.

R11 The audience reactions whenever Elvis moved his body are priceless.

The third picture from the top where he's in black is something I've never seen him wear.

I'd forgotten where I read that he secretly filmed young girls wrestling in white panties. Thanks OP.

Too bad he didn't have surgery to correct his foreskin.

This picture right here....its Lisa Marie. You cant deny shes his daughter.

Lisa Marie

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So he managed to fuck a woman once and impregnate her. So what!

He was embarrassed about his small, uncut dick. Can you imagine a woman's disappointment. One of the sexiest men of all time?

He had a serious oedipal complex.

An old friend had him, a female friend. She said he was nothing special size-wise and had no talent in the sack. What she found disturbing was that he had zits on his back and butt.

She was a professional entertainer that had many famous men in her bed. At that time in her life, was very beautiful and had a banging great bod.

Elvis may have been bi, but I know for a fact that he had relations with women.

Cybill Shepherd said he was a great and sexy lover, but she had to teach him how to eat pussy.

These weird sex stories are at odds with Elvis’s sex appeal. He had tons of it. Women loved him.

Rita Moreno said all she and Elvis would do is grind against each other’s bodies fully clothed and tenderly tussle on her living room floor.

Appeal doesn't mean much when your drawers are on the floor.

R21, must have been all those fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches causing the zits.

He wasn't gay or bi. He was transgressive, which was then and still is a big part of adolescent rebellion. It was de rigueur for rockers and still is for anyone trying to appeal to teens, since outraging authority figures enhances one's appeal.

Also he, like a great many young male stars, especially rock stars, had absolutely atrocious personal hygiene. He didn't bathe or shower. He occasionally wiped himself down with wet washcloths. Hence the backne and the boil (staph infection).

It goes to show how eager girls, even stars, were to score with Elvis and other famous unwashed that they put up with his stench in order to say they'd had him.

This is why they hate us.

Can tou imagine sucking that little stank dick? Especially when he weighed 300 pounds. Linda Thompson earned every cent, and every piece of tacky jewelry.

I thought all Americans were cut?

Not back then, when you were poor white trash.

R29 He wasn’t immediately fat when he got with Linda.

R27 Other people who knew Elvis circa the Comeback Special said he cared very much about his hygiene and appearance.

There's something about his mouth and his facial expression, at times (a bit of a shit-eating smirk effect, specifically about being aware that every woman in the room would kill their whole family to fuck him), that reminds me of (younger) Bill Clinton.

I get zero non-het vibes off this guy. None.

Same here. And the author of this "artcle" is desperately grasping like a whiny little bitch.

You guys need to watch Girls! Girls! Girls! I got serious gay vibes from Elvis in that movie.

There were three Elvises. One had blue eyes. The twin didn't die.

Actually, there were 14 Elvises. Eight came from a Soviet lab.

The ninth and eleventh Elvises were aliens. Not Grays. Greens.

Then there was the Elvis that was actually a bunch of squirrels in an Elvis costume.

And so forth...

triplets?

The OP's photo = Mr Sneer.

r40, there is someone who thinks there were the twins, another brother and then a much, much younger brother who played "Elvis". I only see evidence of three. Two of the brown eyed ones are clearly not the same person under close inspection and obviously the blue eyed one isn't them, either. It does seem that one died in the war, because he never shows up again afterward.

[quote]Goldman writes: “Elvis insisted on seeing it in terms of his grand obsession. It was a clear sign, he argued, that at the critical moment, his father’s body had become the vehicle for a higher being.” Elvis’ mother then worshipped him, and nurtured the idea of her son being a deity. Her faith went global.

From the end of the article at OP -- a very serious case of megalomania, aka Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

I've suffered through this with my mother - and so through therapy and a whole lot of reading, I've tried to learn what makes them tick. They're basically empty inside and like a child. Even a toddler. Toddler's don't have a defined sexuality. They just care about who's looking after them and tending to their every need.

Another thing I'd love to see researched is how many truly beautiful people end up loving the image in the mirror (and not capable of loving anything else.)

I used to think Oedipus complex, but I think that's wrong. I think it's severe NPD - even less adapted to a functional life than DJT. Marilyn had it too - very similar. I'll love you if you worship me - I mean, I'll think that I love you - I don't love anybody, not even myself, because I'm 2 years old, emotionally.

Just my weird two cents. He was hot! As an avatar or something. Would have hated to have a relationship of any kind with him.

* I have no idea why I put an apostrophe in Toddler's. Please forgive me.

r43, but he was sexually and romantically twisted up with his mother.

r45 like Bill Clinton. Not a political dig but reading some of the comments here... But they do share a few traits and it rather reminded me of the competition between Bill and his brother and their mother for other people's attention. And of course, she practically worshipped her sons, and they her. Also, his tendency to have flings with women that resembled his mother in some way.

But Priscilla looked like Elvis, not his mother. And he tried to get her to look more like him. I still see Narcissus looking down in that water at his own image.

And he didn't say his other was the deity - he said he himself was. Funny that he sees his divinity as coming from his father, not his mother - but I guess that jibes with God impregnating Mary and she was just the vessel.

He was so damned crazy. Crazier than Bill, not that there isn't psychological dysfunction with him too. Can you see Elvis managing to get a Rhodes scholarship lol?

* he didn't say his MOTHER was the deity

r47, which is weird, since he looked so little like his father it's difficult to believe that was really his father.

What the fuck would Elvis do with a Rhodes Scholarship? Those are for unattractive people.

That article reads like a senior thesis in gender studies from Evergreen College.

I'm interested to know if any of you wonderful gay men on DL thought Elvis was gay or bi. TIA

I think he was a messed-up heterosexual who was sexually abused by his mother as a child, which was part of why he never had a happy or loving relationship with a woman.

His father spent several years in jail, leaving little Elvis as his mother's only companion and solace.

I blame all that polyester for his back and ass acne. Yuck. I'm not sure I buy he had a tiny uncut penis that bled during intercourse. That's a salacious detail that sounds like an urban legend, much like Richard Gere and the gerbil.

Elvis was probably sexually fluid.

"Jailhouse Rock" is the gayest song ever written though

[quote]He couldn't fuck Priscilla? She was a hot little piece back then.

He did ONCE.

[quote]But Priscilla looked like Elvis, not his mother.

That's because of the Elvis makeover. She only "looked like him" after the black hair dye.