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.
RICHARD THE LNHEART: WAS HE A GAY IN OR JT AN ASTOUNDG POLICIAN
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.
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.
The song was a fast-spired romp about gay terurse. In 1984, s after his last big h, he said that homosexualy was “unnatural” and “ntag” an terview, and by March 1985, he announced a public sermon:.