Was James Dean Gay?

Bi

Gay.

Bi.

Bi

He was only linked to one woman and they were put together to stop the gay rumors. He was gay.

Bi.

James Dean's bisexuality was on open secret just like Anderson Cooper's former glass closet

James loved the big ones. He knew how to take it like a little man. The word gay was not really in use in his day. He would have been identified as gay if it were. It wasn't until the early 1960's that gay was applied to homosexual men by other gay men. Straights didn't get into the act until the 70's.

I don't know if he was gay or bi, but was told by a close family friend he was in to pain. Said Dean came to work many times with cigarette burns all over his body.

I think he was bi.

R8 Was not gay in the sense you now understand it. He was homo. Sex with men. Who knows who he loved. Recent rumours claim he was was masochistically attached to Brando as a dom but there wasn't all that much sex happening, just emotional control of the pretty James.

I don't believe the rumors about Dean and Brando. Marlon never fucked James. Dean was a diva himself. He would never let anyone overshadow him. He was just using his admiration for Brando. James Dean was a sly weasel.

Gay.

Maybe he was intersex like Justin Bieber

Dean was not merely gay. Sorely to burst your bubble.

*sorry

Of course he was gay you stupid dumb fuck OP. Can't you read?

Wishful thinking. Dean was not gay. Bi, perhaps and that's all.

Gay men can like fast cars too. Being gay, and showing a bad boy, even risky, pre-Fonz persona, do not necessarily clash. He didn't choose to be a mechanic or a longshoreman for his young life's work; he chose acting/theatre and did the deeds to advance with it.

He certainly was aware of,public image as,a young actor, and he had talent that was quickly recognized. He was not just picked up and cultivated because he was hot, new meat for the bigwigs and predators in the industry. He only did 3+ movies prior to his tragic death, causing his image to be stuck in time.

Bump

He was bi.

'Gay' or 'Bi' is irrelevant when dealing with an actor. The relevant term is "Narcissist.' An ambitious actor will fuck the person who will do him the most good. The sex of the person is irrelevant. The sex itself is irrelevant. All that really matters is the attention.

He was pre-Franco.

R22, what was Dean's sexuality, in your opinion?

He only had sex with cigarettes.

Jimmy was kinky, alright.

r22 Sexuality also exists for actors.

Gay. But, the Hollywood machine insisted on bi, to offset being labelled homosexual.....when heterosexual was *way* too much of a stretch.

. . .

Binary

He was really into kink:

gay all dat long

As we turkeys say, "gobble gobble".

It seemed me that three were no homosexuals. If cornered the label 'bisexual " would be used to mitigate the damage. If you were labeled homosexual your career money etc. we're over.

Jimmy was gay but he couldn't very well go around saying that, could he? He was out as far as he could be. I read a biography from a little while back by the man who lived with James when he was just starting out that I can't remember the name of but detailed the semi-affair they kind-of had.

Gay with bi face.

Straight....not.

I wonder if there was sexual tension between James and Rock.

I bet Rock wanted to bang Jimmy's culo.

Hudson said later that he couldn't stand Dean, so in answer to your question, r39. there probably was.

Was that William Bast, R35?

This doesn't settle anything about Dean's sexuality, but a poster (R49) in another thread gave insight on life in Dean's hometown and things that were unspoken.

R42, i'm not R35, but yes that was William Bast.

I think that more teenagers of the same sex than we think experiment sexually with each other. The priest who 'molested' Dean was available for horny toad Jimmy and i'm pretty sure that it was not really molestation. James Dean was kinky from an early age. There was something kinky in his eyes, even when he was a child,ffs.

I think that Dean was just using men, in order to get along with the practical difficulties of life. Who do you think was paying the rent when he was living with James Dean...? What about the gay man who had connections in Hollywood and Jimmy used all the way? Jimmy Dean, was a manipulative person. I think emotionally he respected and loved women more, but he cared for his career too much, so he couldn't let an affair with a broad get into his way.

Gay. But women of DL, and everywhere, have an extremely vested interest in pushing the "men as bi, rather than gay" angle, so there you have it.

Tab Hunter who was and is gay said that James Dean was not gay, R45.

R46 I won't tell on you, if you don't tell on me?

Did he play with his gay co star, Sal Mineo ?

R47, that doesn't make sense. Tab Hunter said that Dean was not gay recently and not in the 50s.

R48 Dean knew that Mineo had a crush on him and as far as i remember, i read in one of Dean's biographies (i don't remember which one, because i have read several of them) that Jimmy groped Sal's ass once, as a joke.

R48 According to Mineo they didn't.

P/M/B/T

Aawww... Paul Newman and James Dean would have made the perfect Hollywood power couple in R37.

Didn't Elizabeth Taylor eventually say that during the filming of "Giant," she was trying to set up James with Rock, or that they were taking bets on how long it would take for them to hook up? Something like that.

I think that If Dean was gay, he could have made a good couple with Rudolf Nureyev. I don't think that he was compatible with Paul.

Was James Dean Gay? I don't know, darling, he never sucked MY dick. Oh, wait, yes he did.

He swung both ways

He never fooled around with Sal Mineo or Rock Hudson. In fact, Rock and Jimmy hated each other. The story goes that Rock hated the way James Dean tried to steal scenes. Rumor has it that early in Jimmy's career he was an extra in a Rock Hudson film. Rock hit on him, Jimmy rejected him and they never got along after that.

I looked up WIlliam Bast online and I'm sad to hear he passed away last year :( He had a funny relationship with Jimmy... if they had both let down their guard it may have turned into something more than it really was...

James Dean, Dennis Hopper

Yes. And as boring as you OP. Learn to fucking Google.

R50 Sal Mineo was the pretty one in that movie, not James Dean.

Hahahahahahahaha, R58. Nice joke.

It was Dean's bad eyesight that made him exempt from the military,not his alleged "favors" for a small town minister. The Fairmount insider is full of shit.

R59 James was never 'pretty'. Sal on the other hand was pretty and twinky.

Liz Taylor said Rock hated James. James confessed to his girlfriend, Liz Sheridan, that he was approached by a man on a train once and he "succumbed". Sheridan repeated the story to Larry King in front of a couple of James' alleged buddies from that time who were telling Larry that James was straight.

No he was not

Madonna is a HUGE Dean fan. Mamy of her boyfriends from her struggling days in NYC in the late 70s and 80s claim that Madonna idolized Dean and really identified with him, both grew up in the Midwest with a distant father after their mother's both died of cancer when they were just kids and both loved to shock people and provoke.

Madonna wrote the song "Jimmy Jimmy" on her True Blue album for James Dean and namechecks him in her Vogue rap. She has also claimed East of Eden is one of her favorite movies ever

I think Dean would of gotten a kick out of Madonna if he had lived and maybe even become friends or even date her, she dated Warren Beatty who was from that generation. The 80s and 90s Madonna, especially the S&M "Im interesting in shocking people and showing different sexualities and the darker side of life" Madonna of the early 90s

R63 Dean was bisexual

This has been confirmed countless times

Agree with R65 - countless men and women have claimed to have some sort of sex with James. While they all can not be confirmed, where there is smoke, there is fire. That said, I fucked MANY girls when I was young yet no longer have any interest in doing so now. He was pretty young when he passed - likely he would have gone one way or the other and most men who find themselves attracted to other men eventually go with men in the end (sexually that is - they might live a lie in a sham marriage).

A family member who knew him well in Fairmount claimed he wasn't, but I think she was blinded to it because of her attraction to him.

What about during this speech, when Liz confirms that Jimmy was gay? She doesn't say bi.

I think he was gay, but since he wasnt effeminate I think he was trying to convince himself he was straight but maybe curious..........It was complicated in the 50 s...........also it would have been a career killer if it became widely known............he had a lot of issues, lets face it.

R58 has it right

Jimmy Dean was fug and smelled vaguely of breakfast meats

Didn't that old yenta on Seinfeld claim to be engaged to him?

Since it was the 50's its hard to say considering almost no one admitted to being gay. So was he "bi" or gay and doing what most gay men of the era were doing which was bearding up with suspecting or unsuspecting women like society demanded.

He fucked men and women. He fucked Betsy Palmer aka Pamela Voorhies

Sal Mineo threw himself at James Dean. Alas, JD didn't take the bait.

I read somewhere that during his autopsy it was noted that his torso was covered by keloid scars as a result of guys extinguishing their cigarettes on his chest in back room gay bars. Pretty kinky.

He had an ongoing relationship with Rogers Brackett and Dean was the bottom. This seems to me more than selling his harms to get ahead in hollywood. IF that was the case he could have gotten a blow job here and there for parts. He also had some some of relationship with a reverend at a church in Indiana as a teenager. They spent a lot of time together and the preacher was gay. He gave Dean $250 when Dean was struggling in NYC> back then $250 was a lot of money. Dean seemed to have an emotional need for men.

Deans father was a horrible cold human being who disliked his son. That doesnt make for a well adjusted adult life.

He also had an off and on thing with fellow actor John GIlmore, altho they couldnt seem to have a satisfying sexual relationship.

My best guess from reading all the biographies is Dean leaned heavily to men, but due to his career had to give the illusion of being straight. He liked women but loved men and was sexually mostly just into men. Given the times its conceivable he might have tried marriage but its doubtful it would have lasted.

GAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!

What about Dick Davalos, his co-star in "East of Eden"?

Did he suck Dick?

"Surviving James Dean" by William Bast is great. Bast is more credible than Gilmore, imo.

He seemed like a very sexual person. Young and hormonal and aware of his sex appeal to both sexes and took advantage of that. There seems to be more evidence of him being gay or at least gay-leaning bisexual. Most of his relationships with women seemed puppy love-ish or friendships misconstrued as romances or just straight-up PR. I don't think persistent gay claims would exist without substance especially since they're made by people who were in close proximity to or friends and lovers themselves of Jimmy Dean. He was young hot guy who loved fucking and he had sugar daddies like Rogers Brackett.

Yes this is public knowledge Elizabeth Taylor outted him years ago.

Obviously, bi.

I have a family member who knew him at Fairmount High School and they claim he was not, but that could be a case of denial. I think he was open to new experiences.

If that’s true why wasn’t he in more musicals or center square in the Hollywood Squares???

As sexy and beautiful as Elizabeth Taylor was in her prime she would know if one of her close male friends was into women or not.

I'm surprised you needed to ask. Not only was he gay but each movie he appeared in was gayer than the next.

Is the Pope Catholic?

Wasn’t he in love with Pier Angeli, but she dumped him and married someone else?

I imagine had he lived, he would have come out the closet like Brando and Granger did. Dean was a hipster who thrived on being countercultural and bashed on the establishment.

We'll never really know.

Agreed we'll never know. I like to think he was just a horny young guy who loved sex with anyone he found attractive. Some people do not have a rigid sexuality. It seemed many agreed that he did sleep with older powerful men for money, shelter and film/TV/stage roles when he was starving actor in LA/NY. He was a farm boy from Indiana turned slutty hustler. He was short with bags under his eyes but still very sexy and seductive with beautiful lips, "fuck me" eyes and lush hair and a bubble butt.

Hey, James Dean was no goddamnit skin flute player, and I'm just the Dame who can prove it!

Jack

Alleged nude. I don't think it's him but it's hot nevertheless.

He may have been overrated an actor after his death but he definitely had presence, swag and it factor. He and Marlon both had influenced Elvis and the greaser subculture. The industry kept comparing every handsome young man with a squinty face, pouty lips and good hair as the next James Dean. I can see why he's a pop culture icon.

Jeeemie no era omossesuale e son io la dama per provarlo!

He non-binary.

His image in the public's mind is this tough masculine rebel but from all accounts his real-life personality was this neurotic, insecure, moody and clingy bookworm with a Napoleon complex. He wanted to get fucked by alpha males like Marlon Brando who I'm sure used Dean as a cumdumpster