Was david cassidy gay

David Bruce Cassidy[1] (April 12, – November 21, ) was an American actor and musician. He was best known for his role as Keith Partridge in the s musical-sitcom The Partridge Family. After completing high school, Cassidy pursued acting and music.

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.

David Cassidy's wholesome image won obsessive devotion from his teenage fans. In this brutally frank autobiography, he reveals the secret life of drug abuse and reckless sex that drove him to.

August 8, by Jerry Nunn. Interviewed by Jerry Nunn. Jerry Nunn is a contributing writer to the GoPride Network.

David Cassidy's wholesome image won obsessive devotion from his teenage fans. In this brutally frank autobiography, he reveals the secret life of drug abuse and reckless sex that drove him to.

Note: This was written in , while its subject was still very much with us. By Scott Ross. He was not my first celebrity crush.

Times of London columnist Janice Turner wrote of the teen idol: “The most troubled person I ever met was David Cassidy, the teen idol of Jackson’s era, unhinged long ago by his fans.

His hair made me swoon long before I'd heard that expression. I didn't know the word "perfection," either. But when I was nine to be precise, nine years and eight days , I grasped what it meant.