I'm going to agree with this. 80s films are notorious... well generally, in the days before LGBTQ acceptance, much of any gay message was done with a cloaked, subtle undertone. So yeah, I agree, you could gleam a bisexual story between the two main characters, especially with Jim playing the alpha male shirtless hunk. Big surprise the Whitesnake model and the gay dude can get with Jim? Not really.
I'd say the two boys were first loves. They grew up together in Jim's stressful life, and were most likely a lot more intimate early on because of the adult situation around them; and intimacy doesn't have to include sex at first. Though, I'd say Brandon was more gay, and Jim was more bi. They probably had their fling up until Jim aged and found he liked women more; and headed in that direction, leaving Brandon with the embarrassment, longing and bitterness of days gone by.
Or vice versa.
At any rate, the LGBTQ story of today is a lot different than it was in 1986. You'd lose a lot more than just your love life if anyone found out, and that was just thirty years ago. So is it any wonder why Jim cries, when after reconnecting with Brandon, he loses him again, because of some dumb broad with a Ouija board. Of course, because of the cloaked manner of LGBTQ storylines of the last century, the film had to end with a wedding, if only to further hide the feelings between Jim and Brandon in an age when male love was a taboo.
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