So was Johnny Strabler Gay?

If anything, I'd thought you'd say Lee Marvin's Chino was gay when he says to Johnny, 'I love ya, Johnny !' ! Given his previous relationship with Britches and his attraction to Kathy, your suggestion isn't really credible and may be influenced by the later adoption of Johnny's clothing style by a section of the homosexual community in the 1970s.

Today he would be....but this is the day of the "queer" (ie. pre-gay): Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote, etc. were the only models for homosexuality (outside of studying classical Greek, but that was the domain of the elite/educated). The key scene is when Kathie really hits the nail on the head & tells him that he is really afraid of her. She sympathizes with his desire to leave a small town where they can't really get what they want. She also comes to realizes that he isn't so much interested in her as a love interest as he has become disinterested in his gang: he is tired of being around immature males, but he also doesn't want the good girl to settle down with & raise a family.

Just saw it (for the first time, shame on me) yesterday evening. The same question came to my mind. As a matter of fact, I had this impression about the whole gang. Their mannerisms, their touchy-feely posturings, the exagerated moves and facial expressions, especially when they laughed. They looked like a band of queers, priscilla's posing as tough bikers. To say nothing of Brando's voice. A whining falsetto. He sounded quite different to me in Streetcar or Waterfront. Was anybody trying to make a point here? What with the symbolism of the very phallic throphy and the way it was handled and passed around? And the foaming beer bottles? I had expected this to be rather The tame one, after all, it was 1953, but I had not expected such a weird experience. Almost Fellini-esque.

Yeah he spent the entire film trying to hook up with that broad causing great harm to himself and his club, sure he was gay.

IMDB board is never complete until, someone (mostly an American) doesn't call someone in the movie, a gay!
What's this fetish with calling people gay?!
Always suspecting of people being gay?

They might be gay or not, wouldn't make any difference but what this particular mentality should be called? Some kind of psychological sickness? Isn't it particularly widely spread in the US? Why? Can anyone explain?
After all, there're gays, all over the world! Americans are too much worried!

I got the impression that his lack of interest towards Britches had something to do with a need to burn bridges with people he used to know and hang out with.

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every movie...
at every movie there is an insane thread about the main character being gay...

I thought the "everybody is a poof" idea died out in the 1970s.