The sexuality of Jim Morrison

A 1960s rock legend kept secrets

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Life, Death, Legend by Stephen Davis reports that Jim mentioned the abuse to his lawyer, Max Fink, who wrote it in an unpublished memoir.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:

“When Jimmy tried to tell his mother, Fink claimed, she had gotten angry, called him a liar, and insisted such a thing never could have happened. Fink said that Jim began to cry as he told him the story, and claimed Jim had said that he could never forgive his mother for this.”

The Morrison family denied it.

Jim wet the bed a lot.

In an effort to make him stop, his mother made him sleep in the soiled sheets. Urination becomes a running theme in his life.

In high school he had a girlfriend. She recalls his talk of wanting to be a writer, and bizarre antics, like pretending he was about to piss on a fire hydrant in public.