I saw your post from January where you mentioned Cushing being a suspected queer person in the tags, I’m very intrigued to know why that is. Is it that he might have been asexual? Otherwise the only thing that comes to mind is when he mentions in his first memoir that he was in love with Peter Pan as a young boy, and although Pan was always played by a girl on stage where he saw it, he did not know the difference between the majority of men and women until his brother taught him some time later.
oh, yeah!! granted im not as huge a cush expert as my wife and muts so i want to enlist the cush squad for further evidence @hereissomething @renmorris @redwoodrroad @thatdoodlebug @papsiguess
i realize a lot of it is probably wish fulfillment- but from the outside looking in, it just seems like a lot of little things that add up- being raised as a girl. the apparent (disinterest?) in sexuality. his hyper-empathy. his lack of machismo, his comfort in proximity of women, his extremely close friendships with men. idk just stuff like that.
i know those arent indicators of anything and i know theres more and better examples but i cant remember em right now. 😭
anyway, i was just kinda grousing that day about the idea of not being able to know these tidbits of peoples' lives. granted i know its none of my business but if he were, then that kind of revisionist history sucks, you know?
i'm not a very big fan of his late in life caretakers the broughtons, so in my biased mind i find it plausible that any memorabilia hinting to cush being anything other than straight might have been buried.
i guess the most agonizing thing is that we cant (or will never) have the luxury of knowing, so all we have is wishful thinking. 🤷♂️ idk













