When I was living in West Hollywood in the 1980s and 1990s, everybody "knew" that Keanu Reeves, star of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, My Own Private Idaho, Little Buddha, and Speed, was gay, and a BDSM top.Will the Bondage Boy said that his first BDSM experience was a role-playing scene with Keanu and his friend Scott.
Marshall claims to have seen him at a bear party, wearing fetish gear. He didn't do anything, but he left with a Cute Young Thing.
A guest at one of Will's parties claimed to have bottomed for him in a scene in Silverlake.
But this is the only story I heard about Keanu Reeves as a BDSM bottom.
Silverlake, July 1990
Call me Drake. We lived in California at the same time. It's a pity we never met -- we would have had a lot in common. I'm five years older than you, from Illinois, I grew up in a fundamentalist household, and I'm a gym rat, working out three or four hours a day even in my 60s. I think I also knew Will the Bondage Boy, if you're describing who I think you are.
There are a surprising number of black guys into BDSM, which is a problem because of the fetishists.
Lots of white guys want to be with you just because you are black; they're not really into dominance, discipline, or pain at all. Regardless of how well you prep them in advance, the moment you pull out the whip, they're squealing their safe word, and the scene is ruined.
So I was very careful in the 1980s. I would only top guys who I knew, or who came recommended by a friend. And none of these "bi-curious" closet types; if you get off on ladies stomping on your chest with stiletto heels, keep out of my dungeon, baby.
One night after a scene, a bottom named Steve and I were chatting. He was telling me about some of the other guys who had topped him, and he mentioned Keanu Reeves."Keanu Reeves? From Bill and Ted?" I balked. "I know he's gay, but what a nimrod! Like, now I'm going to totally whip your most excellent penis, dude."
"He's not a nimrod, Sir, he just plays one. He's actually very intellectual -- he reads Camus and all that. And he's a great top -- really good with role-playing scenes, I guess because he's such a good actor."
Actually, I found the other guy in Bill and Ted (Alex Winter) much hotter, but it might be fun to dominate the dopey Ted, wipe that dazed expression off his face. "Does he ever bottom?"
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