Do you really, really think that Putnam removed references to Morrissey’s homosexual relationship with Jake Walters because it was squeamish? Really really?
According to Billboard: “Morrissey’s aptly-named “Autobiography” makes its debut stateside this week, albeit with one hitch: deemphasizing his reported relationship with photographer Jake Owens Walters.
The book, published in the U.S. by G.T. Putnam’s Sons, removes a photograph of Walters from the original autobiography — in fact, it takes out Walters’ name completely in an account of a night with the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, SPIN reports via WENN.
The two-year relationship with Walters reportedly led Morrissey to dub himself “humasexual” — or “attracted to humans,” he said in a statement.
The relationship was originally revealed after the book’s initial publication in the U.K., though the rocker didn’t specify explicitly whether or not they were lovers.”
The motives here may be maybe but I don’t think Putnam were scared of offending the US readership and therefore took out references to Morrissey’s relationship. rather, either Morrissey or Jake must have requested it, but to what end? I realize Morrissey works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, but this is very strange. Why would he down play what he went out of his way to overplay?
Incidentally, why would Morrissey choose not to discus his sex life in any detail in an autobiography? I mean, if Moz was in a serious homosexual relation for years on end, what songs did he write about it? Why reveal if only to conceal, if you don’t want to write about yourself, for fucks sake don’t write about yourself, but what price prudish concealment?
