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jungkook’s big hyung energy when it comes to jimin

+ that one time jimin tried to re-establish his hyung dominance:

alexa, play “the only exception” (aka Jungkook dropping honorifics with Jimin)

East of Eden, 1954 (dir. Elia Kazan)

other people who have claimed he’s gay/prefer men include Nicholas Ray (rebel without a cause director), Gavin Lambert (rebel screenwriter), Stanley Haggart (close friend), Rogers Brackett, William Bast (screenwriter, gay and claimed to have been in a relationship with him for 5 years), Darwin Porter, Donald Spoto, Jack Simmons, Joe Hyams, Val Holley, Noreen Nash, and John Gilmore (to name a few)

he was also allegedly the kept boy of sugar daddy and advertising mogul Rogers Brackett, who he lived with and helped him get jobs and advance his networking for most of his career.

if you wanna read about it, the Marlon Brando stuff is pretty wild and interesting (and backed by Tennessee Williams, Alec Wilder, and Rogers Brackett, apparently). james definitely had a masochistic and submissive streak, as he notoriously frequented the bondage bar Club, where he would ask for belt beatings and for people to stub their cigarettes out on him. Brian Molko of Placebo wrote the song “This Picture” about James Dean in reference to this