Burt reynold gay

When Burt Reynolds starred alongside Dolly Parton in the film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, there were rumors that the two were hooking up, despite Parton being married. How I Met Your Mother actor Neil Patrick Harris has revealed that it was a friendly kiss from Burt Reynolds that cemented the realisation that he was gay. Burt Reynolds Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. (February 11, – September 6, ) was an American actor most famous during the s and s.

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[3][4] He became well known in television series such as Gunsmoke (–), Hawk () and Dan August (–). Their closeness as characters as well as their chemistry, and their willingness to appear half-naked at the drop of a hat certainly made the show popular with gay men–and the stars also didn’t mind playing into the gay interest in the show, as you can see by the picture of them running hand in hand on the beach.

One of the major threads running through “I Am Burt Reynolds” is the actor’s tricky relationship with his gruff, no-nonsense father, Burton Reynolds, from whom Burt constantly sought. As I have been reviewing things that helped confirm to myself as a child that I was a big old homo for my book The Summer of Lost Boys , I found myself remembering a lot of things, memories from the darkest dusty and cobwebbed chasms of my memory banks.

I grew up on the cusp of some societal and cultural changes, and not the least of which was the fact that in the s, men finally began being sexualized and held to a kind of male beauty standard that gradually changed that standard—which for a burgeoning young gay boy, was perfect timing. You never heard a woman saying she wanted to fuck Paul Newman or Robert Redford or Burt Reynolds; there was more to it than just sexual energy.

It was the decade Playgirl launched more on that later , Jim Palmer began doing underwear ads, and the poster of Mark Spitz and his gold medals wearing a speedo sold like cheap beer on a payday. And it also began the rise of the himbo shows; the male equivalent of all those jiggle shows with big breasted girls without a bra jumping up and down; those shows were almost guaranteed ratings in the Top Ten.

Starksy and Hutch was the first real himbo show that I can remember; David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser were very good looking with great bodies that were very masculine as well—and the show showed them shirtless as much as possible, or in towels, or—you get the idea. They drove a fast car with an odd but distinctive paint job cars were also stars that decade and the show also not only was a hit but a part of the zeitgeist, too.

I watched every week—as did my sister and almost every girl I knew—but it being a macho cop show, it was okay for men to watch, too. And if there was an Internet and fan fic, a lot of people would have been writing erotic romances about the two of them. Louisiana has always been a conservative state, despite the existence of New Orleans. Originally French then Spanish before becoming American, Louisiana also was a part of the Confederacy and had an economy based on enslavement.

I love Madisonville, and the Tchefuncte River area. A while ago, I was following a Twitter conversation about Burt Reynolds movies from the s.

Mind you, when I was living in Kansas our movie options were limited. There was a drive-in movie theater on the way from our little town Americus to the county seat of Emporia, and there was a small twin cinema on Commercial Street. The summer before my senior year Smokey and the Bandit opened on a Friday, and the following Friday Star Wars opened in the other theater.

Both movies ran for about three months…. This was also the same time period that gave us corrupt politician Boss Hogg and the inept sheriff and deputies he controlled. Political and police corruption have always gone hand-in-hand in the Southern states; the police merely existing to enforce and enable the existing power structure.

But I also kept wondering, but is this still true in the South? Do these kind of corrupt power structures still exist in the South? Would this read like a period piece? Guess what? It IS still like this in the rural South. Thanks, Murtaughs! I already had an idea for the next Scotty, and was pulling it all together, using a relatively minor political scandal here locally as the starting point for the story—which involved a conservative politician getting involved with a teenaged boy who worked at the food court at a mall, mostly buying him presents—clothes, underwear, swimsuits—and having the kid send him pictures wearing it.

It was mostly a harmless flirtation, until the kid, who was gay, realized that the nice man buying him gifts was actually a hardcore far right family values politician, so he went public. What I was interested in was exploring the decline and fall of a politically powerful family that had controlled a parish in Louisiana for well over a hundred years, almost like an absolute monarchy with primogeniture.

I also invented the parish—surprisingly enough, there is no St. Charles, St. John the Baptist. Friday morning and all is right in my world—at least so far so good, one would think.