Welcome to Queerty’s latest entry in our series, Queerantined: Daily Dose. Every weekday as long as the COVID-19 pandemic has us under quarantine, we’ll release a suggested bit of gloriously queer entertainment designed to keep you from getting stir crazy in the house. Each weekend, we will also suggest a binge-able title to keep you extra engaged.
The Spilled T: Whitney
Lord, how we miss Whitney Houston. The beautiful, good-humored diva with a megaphone voice still gives us chills and makes us want to jump up and dance whenever we hear her songs. That endearing love only makes her premature loss at age 48 all the more tragic.
In tribute to the life of Ms. Houston, we offer up Whitney, the outstanding 2018 documentary that shed a blinding light on the woman, her career, and her demons. Director Kevin Macdonald uses a combination of interviews, archive footage and never-before-seen home movies to reconstruct the life of the gay icon, including the participation of Houston’s mother and brothers, ex-husband Bobby Brown, friends, and business associates. The one glaring omission: the absence of Robin Crawford, Houston’s longtime confidant and sometime girlfriend. Yes, the family confirms Houston’s long-rumored bisexuality, and her long relationship with Crawford (something Crawford herself has only recently discussed). Made with love, respect and an undeniable sadness, Whitney memorializes its subject, and drives home that her loss is our loss.
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Doctor Benway
I’d like to know how Whitney Houston is queer relative. She’s wasn’t lesbian, she didn’t fights for gay rights… I don’t see the link between LGBT and Whitney Houston.
Or maybe you think that all gay people love Whitney Houston? And so, I suppose in the wonderful Queerty world of clichés, gay obviously love Lady Gaga and Cher and Judy Garland and I don’t know what else.
Queerty : always fighting for a modern image of LGBT people but stuck in an old representation of gays.
Kangol2
Huh? First, Whitney Houston was queer. She had a same-sexual relationship with Robyn Crawford, then married and had a daughter with a straight man, Bobby Brown, who even admitted several years ago that his wife was attracted to and in a relationship with another woman. She probably had other same-sexual relationships as well. That’s why she’s listed here.
Second, Whitney Houston embraced her LGBTQ fans. You might not know this, but she raised quite a bit of money for HIV/AIDS research and prevention, going all the way back to the early 1990s, when some celebs kept their distance. During the late 1990s she repeatedly sang at LGBTQ pride events; I saw her at the 1999 Heritage of Pride event in NYC, and she was spectacular. Her message was one of love and togetherness.
asa1973
“All” gay people don’t love any one thing. Chile, ain’t you evah been in a room with eleventy billion gay folks when Whitney comes on, though??? Hunnnnty. Enough of us love her for her to be recognized here.
oscarjames
It seems to me that without a commentary from Robin Crawford this documentary is fundamentally lacking a key ingredient, and so wouldn’t be of much interest. The questions remain around her tragic path. Was she fundamentally a lesbian woman who conformed to what she thought she had to be to be a pop star, a straight heterosexual image? The legendary Dusty Springfield was tortured by these issues in her personal life. I don’t know the answers but if these matters aren’t brought to light and looked at, this cannot be a very thorough examination of her life.
asa1973
Clearly you haven’t watched the film. Could this documentary have gone further? Certainly. Does it discuss the very conflicts you suggest it doesn’t? Certainly.
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