Elvis Presley's gay love affair with Nick Adams

And more

That's what I read. Adams would turn tricks, too, to make ends meet.

Nick Adams is a sexy mofo!

Yup, from what I've heard, Elvis was bisexual.

He and Prissy-cilla were only married for six years. He fucked around on her most of that time. She acts like they were soulmates, but I highly doubt it.

They rarely had sex by her own admission and never after she had the baby.

He treated her like an employee yet she always speaks about how connected they were. I don't buy it. She pushes the me and Elvis bit because it keeps the money flowing to her.

Well who could blame her. It's better than being known for vagina jokes in The Naked Gun.

I remember Nick Adams from watching those terrible Japanese monster movies on Saturday afternoon TV. He was so sexy even in that dreck.

The King was a size Queen.

Colonel Parker offed Adams when Adams tried to blackmail Elvis. No one came between Parker and his cash cow.

He was a hoe. A cute, rich, talented hoe. Plastic surgeries didn't hurt, either.

I always thought the King was 6'4" or something because of his larger than life image. Disappointingly, he was only 5'10".

Wouldn't Elvis have surrounded himself with better looking men in the Memphis Mafia had he been into men as well as women?

He had to keep the bjs on the down low. Otherwise the rags would catch wind of his forbidden lust.

Didn't Cybil Shepherd basically go on tour once to tell the world that Elvis wouldn't perform oral sex on her?

Priss-cila said that Elvis wouldn't drink off of anyone else's cup. If offered a drink somewhere, he would always turn the handle toward his lips, knowing that was the safe place.

Guess who else was Nick's lover? NICK ADAMS, American actor (d. 1968); born Nicholas Adamschock, Nick Adams was a diminutive, blond actor who usually played neurotic or aggressive types and sometimes comic sidekicks (as Andy Griffith’s bespectacled pal, Ben, in No Time For Sergeants). He has been noted for his supporting roles in successful films during the 1950s and 1960s along with his starring role in the ABC television series, The Rebel. His story is a virtual template of mid-century Hollywood closeted life. And in the classic Gay character movie of the time, Adams died by his own hand at age thirty-six in 1968.

Hollywood rumor had it that, since big things come in small packages. Adams was a successful hustler while he and his roommate, James Dean were trying to break into acting. (In some versions of the story, it was actually Dean himself out hustling as well.) It is uncertain whether James Dean and Adams met before his service in the US Coast Guard (1952-1955) and subsequent role in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). In his 1985 gossip book about Gay Hollywood, Conversations With My Elders, Boze Hadleigh claimed actor Sal Mineo told him in 1972, "I didn't hear it from Jimmy (James Dean), who was sort of awesome to me when we did Rebel. But Nick told me they had a big affair." John Gregory Dunne confirms that "James Dean was bisexual, as were Nick Adams and Sal Mineo."

In his book Elvis (1981) Albert Goldman wrote, "Nick Adams ingratiated himself with James Dean precisely as he would do a year or so later with Elvis. He offered himself to the shy, emotionally contorted and rebellious Dean, as a friend, a guide, a boon companion, a homosexual lover -- whatever role or service Dean required."

In 2005 Byron Raphael and Presley biographer Alanna Nash claim Adams may have "swung both ways" like "Adams’ good pal (and Elvis’ idol) James Dean. Tongues wagged that Elvis and Adams were getting it on."

Earl Greenwood, author and biographer David Bret, and Adams' former fan mail secretary Bill Dakota made similar statements. Following James Dean's 1955 death in an automobile accident, Adams overdubbed some of Dean's lines for the film Giant (these are in Jett Rink's speech at the hotel) and dated co-star Natalie Wood (sort of the equivalent to being "a good friend of Liz Taylor’s" or "marrying Liza Minnelli"). At the time of his death Nick Adams was the lover of a movie actor rumored to have been Robert Conrad.

Person in the arts who rarely fucked his wife in "bisexual" shock.

This thread shows why straight men don't hang out with gay guys.

If they have even a brief association with a gay man, everyone will say they must be fucking. Even decades later, people willl say they were fucking.

Oh no, r19. Thinking someone is gay is just the absolute worst thing you can do to a poor innocent straight man.

^^ Assuming two people are fucking because one is gay and they're seen together hanging out is actually pretty shitty and homophobic, r20.

Even guys who might otherwise have progressive ideals or have the ability to shake off what others think would want to avoid that.

R19 Sure Jan.

When you can't think of anything intelligent to say on Datalounge, typing "Sure Jan," fills up this little blank field. Clicking "Post" sends it to the board.

Neat, huh?

Elvis was also a big pro wrestling fan. He loved watching sweaty men grab eachother.

I didn't know that everyone who watched pro-wrestling was gay. Thanks, r24!

Holy crap!!!

"WWE broadcasts to more than 180 countries in 30 languages and can be seen in 1 billion television households worldwide each week. WWE creates seven hours of original programming that is watched by approximately 11 million fans in the United States."

R23 Typing the words "FUCK OFF" also works.

Elvis was gay, get over it.

All that shit with the child bride and dating every woman in entertainment was a cover story. He had more fun with his entourage.

Priscilla had to divorce while she was still young enough to enjoy good dick.

Damn the fraus are really getting into a frenzy over Elvis being bisexual

R23

Right, r28?!

I can’t believe the fraus around here would dare to suggest we haven’t presented an avalanche of evidence.

I mean: Being photographed with an actor who was later rumored to be bisexual?!?! Watching TV wrestling?!? Hello?!!?!

TOTAL GAYFER ALERT!!!

I love not being a frau and doing non-frau things like this!!! SHrieeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!! Shrieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!

R30 = when fraus’ heads explode

I am a frau, as far as the rest of you are concerned, and I've long thought Elvis was gayer than a $3 bill.

Women were arm candy for his image.

^^ Well, clearly if you think it, r32, then it must be true.

Case. Closed.

Super hung Nick likely serviced tinymeat Elvis.

Gay erasure is a frau’s main purpose in life

Roseanne called pro wrestling gay porn in bathing suits. She wasn't wrong.

[quote]r7 He treated her like an employee

Typical Capricorn.

It's interesting that Elvis allegedly idolised Dean in Rebel and sought out his friends. That's pretty gay.

As everyone knows, young people in general in the 50s idolized and emulated James Dean. Elvis met Adams in the commissary of the Hollywood studio where they were both working.

Whatever the reality, I'm sure they enjoyed themselves, everyone has to be themselves, life is too short, fuck your brains out, you'll feel better, if it feels right, do it. Sex is awesome with the right person, it's meant to be enjoyed, don't waste time caring what other people think, just enjoy yourself, live life freely, and fully. Do what makes you happy. :-)

Rita Moreno said Elvis was too soft for her, that he was “sweet but boring.” Make of that what you will.

That's right, bitches. The King sucked cock.

[quote]Rita Moreno said Elvis was too soft for her

Well, it *was* before Viagra after all.

He didn't have normal sexual relationships with women.

Mom issues.

Elvis was hot back then, almost anyone would have fucked him.

I thought this was common knowledge...

'The author describes up to a dozen beautiful women who willingly gave their virginity to the rising rock and roll star.

One of these women, Joyce Bova, would later say “he was not a tiger in bed after all”.

Williamson writes of one affair: “He was a great kisser and very sweet, but not the stud she had expected.”

The woman, a young starlet by the name of Barbara Leigh, confessed that she had a brief affair with the singer but admitted the sex was highly overrated.

She added: “It was hard for him to be a natural man,” ascribing the difficulty to the copious amounts of drugs he was taking.

Although Elvis craved companionship, the thousands of teenage girls who lined concert halls and a marriage to Priscilla never seemed as though it was enough.

After the pair married and her virginity had been taken, he soon lost interest and the union fell apart when his new bride became pregnant.'

Looks like "The King" was a big, old QUEEN!

Nick was a cute YOUNG man. Older he isn't much.

R50 That makes him so unusual!

Elvis fell short in the sack according to Cybill Shepherd, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno...

You ain't nothing but a hound dog only makes sense sung to a gay man.

^faggot stole that song from me.

Big Mama Thorton would make for a good movie. Imagine all the shit she had to endure being a black lesbian.

What's the timeline of Adams' famous hookups? Dean, Presley, then Robert Conrad?

R47 I think elvis looks rather like miles teller in this pic

R55 Was she a lesbian?

The magic number for Elvis was 14 years of age. Doesn't that make him a predator?

From the information we have, it's clear his relationship with his mother completely screwed him over sexually, whether because anything actually happened or just because she really was The One Girl for Him (whatever that means in hillbilly). He was unable to have sex with Priscilla after she became a mother, and he told her that was the reason.

Whether that relationship also "made" him gay, who knows. It's enough by itself to explain his extremely odd relationships with women and the fact that he was more comfortable among a large group of guys.

That is what I heard, R58. Check this out. PING!

Ahem

Why is Elvis shirtless?

/ / His shirt fell off during passionate gay sex.

Neither of them ever fucked me.

I've recently begun digging into Elvis's catalogue and from the performances and interviews I can without a doubt conclude that Elvis was indeed inclined to not resist should a chance to engage in hot male-on-male action be in his orbit.

R66 That's a ton of bullshit even for DL. Nice job.

Just watched Viva Las Vegas with Elvis and Ann-Margaret. He couldn’t act even if someone held a gun to his head and she’s so ridiculously “sexy” and arch that I’ve laughed myself giddy. He’s more heavily made-up than she.is.

My grandfather was a strict parent. My Mom was beautiful and built like MM by the time she was twelve. One day grandpa drove by Mom's high school, only to find her wearing blue jeans that she had borrowed from a friend. All hell broke lose. Another big no-no, was Elvis Presley. Mom wasn't allowed to listen to his music because Elvis (the pelvis) was too, sexual in his concert performances. Mom always chuckled when telling me these stories so I always associate Elvis with Mom's borrowed, blue jeans.

R68 Check out King Creole. Elvis’s acting is quite good in that one.

But were they her blues jeans,?

The bouquet of evidence suggest some kind of problem with sex.

I have read that he was absolutely groomed up from childhood to be a star by local Jewish entertainment people. That essentially he was taken almost entirely out of real school for this and put into some kind of performer's dojo.

If true, like many other young people with unusual upbringings, perhaps he was sexually assaulted or at least did not get to have normal development in that area of his life.

[quote]I have read that he was absolutely groomed up from childhood to be a star by local Jewish entertainment people. That essentially he was taken almost entirely out of real school for this and put into some kind of performer's dojo.

? What would be the point?

Did they later get a cut from Col Tom Parker?

How many threads do we need on Nick Adams and Elvis?.........sigh....

I would have been happy to just have him sing to me. The guy had a great voice.

I've come to appreciate the big lug more and more over the years.