Where are the receipts that river was bisexual?
“There is no doubt in my mind that River was bisexual. I spoke with someone who knew him through PETA functions and she said that, after some of the functions, they used to go swimming in a river and everyone would take off their clothes including underwear. [River was a “boxers man”, by the way.] Then, they would get dressed and go dancing, and she said River would always dance and flirt with men. Women were flocking [to] him, trying to get into his pants, [but] he had no interest in them” - A source from In Search of River Phoenix (Biography)
“In late 1992, a gay filmmaker (not Van Sant) staying at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles heard a knock at midnight and discovered Phoenix outside, drunk and wanting to talk about his struggles with bisexuality. The filmmaker reassured him that it would all work out” - Esquire, March 1994
In 1993 he was asked about the rumours of his bisexuality and he didn’t deny them but said something like (and I don’t have the exact quote because the article seems to have been removed from the web), whether he wanted a man or a woman depended on which side of the bed he woke up on that day
“Phoenix was also curious about what Parker called ‘the glamour of men wanting to touch our bodies.’ While filming his previous movie, Dogfight, [in 1990] Phoenix had received oral sex from another male actor, saying he needed to do it because ‘he was going to play a gay hustler.’ He had other brief involvements with men over the years, and it was no big deal to friends who knew. Phoenix simply didn’t censor his afflictions. ‘If he loved somebody, male or female,’ says one of Phoenix’s longtime girlfriends, Suzanne Solgot, ‘he felt he should check it out.’" - Esquire, March 1994
He was spotted at gay bars/nightclubs in the 90s and there have been name drops about specific men he was with e.g. Gus Van Sant said that River slept with the male cinematographer of Dogfight, Bobby Bukowski, before and after filming Idaho. Australian choreographer, Jason Gardiner, was asked who was the most famous person he’d kissed and he named River
