The sexuality of Jim Morrison
A 1960s rock legend kept secrets
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12 min readApr 8, 2021
The sexual history of Jim Morrison, the iconic rock singer of the Doors, seems to begin when he was molested as a boy. He’d only say it was a man close to the family.
The 2001 biography Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis reports that Jim mentioned the abuse to his lawyer, Max Fink, who wrote it in an unpublished memoir. Davis adds:
