Contents:
- LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
- RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
For the past half-century, Richard the Lnheart - that buff, bronzed warrr who hardly saw his wife and had no children - has been somethg of a gay in. As a prence on the silver screen (most famoly the shape of the young Anthony Hopks The Ln Wter) his homosexualy has rarely been doubt. English history isn't short of gay or bisexual monarchs - Edward II, Jam I, possibly William II - but the historil evince for untg Richard I among their number rts on one ntemporary document ncerng his relatnship wh Kg Philip II of France.
Although he’s hailed as a queer in and a self-scribed “The Kg and Queen of Rock and Roll, ” his flamboyant inic style differed om the anti-gay Christiany he poed later life, leavg behd a tly nflicted legacy.
RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
His dad then kicked him out for beg gay at age 15 and was shot and killed by a ctomer outsi of his own nightclub when Richard was 19. Related: 3 gay micians jt got fired om their Catholic church bee, you know… gay.