Ltle Richard PBS Doc reveals gay origs of 'Tutti Ftti.'
Contents:
- NEW LTLE RICHARD PBS DOC DETAILS GAY ORIGS OF ‘TUTTI FTTI’: ‘THIS A’T ABOUT ICE CREAM’
- LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
- NEW LTLE RICHARD PBS DOC DETAILS GAY ORIGS OF ‘TUTTI FTTI’: ‘THIS A’T ABOUT ICE CREAM’
NEW LTLE RICHARD PBS DOC DETAILS GAY ORIGS OF ‘TUTTI FTTI’: ‘THIS A’T ABOUT ICE CREAM’
* tutti frutti gay *
New Ltle Richard PBS Doc Details Gay Origs of ‘Tutti Ftti’: ‘This A’t About Ice Cream’.
” The lyrics, of urse, uld be terpreted as beg about gay sex, lghs Dean John Moore, a blu mician who rerd wh Richard. 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.
LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
Ltle Richard stggled for s wh his sexualy, fah. One of the foundg fathers of rock 'n' roll, he said he was gay. * tutti frutti 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:.
“I have rejected homosexualy.
Now I get my thrills om the mistry… My te belief about Rock and Roll- and there have been alot of phras attributed to me over the years-is this: I believe this kd of mic is monic… If [God] n save Ltle Richard he n save anybody… I talk about my life as a homosexual and dg addict bee I thk is right to tell people what God has done for me. Richard later went on David Letterman’s late-night talk show, explag that when he was gay, he wasn’t a man, but now that he was a man, he uld experience sex wh a woman. In 1995, Richard said he has “been gay all my life” an terview wh Penthoe, but by 2000, he told JET was all an act.
NEW LTLE RICHARD PBS DOC DETAILS GAY ORIGS OF ‘TUTTI FTTI’: ‘THIS A’T ABOUT ICE CREAM’
Wh over 650 snas the Spartac sna gui is the largt onle search enge for gay snas worldwi. * tutti frutti gay *
” Yet, by 2017, Richard ma a veiled reference to homosexualy as an “unnatural affectn. One n’t merely say that Ltle Richard died a homophobe or renounced his queerns when his life and persona as a queer entertaer ma such a cultural impact, makg “male vany” a regular part of rock and fluencg generatns of performers afterwards. Funny you should ask, bee there's a good answer: the song talked about gay sex so explicly as to be almost pornographic.
A gui to Nerja's nightlife and entertament: bars, live mic venu, clubs, gay-iendly bars, ftivals, Tutti Ftti square ... * tutti frutti gay *
"Ftti" was not a random rhyme, but a re-appropriatn of the mon slang "uy" that meant, sentially, "gay-actg. Was Ltle Richard gay or bisexual?
Was he a straight guy makg fun of gay people? At age 13, his parents kicked him out (In the 1980s, he revealed that was bee he was a homosexual.
Ltle Richard honed his craft as a teenage drag queen. In everythg om his hairstyle to his lyrics, we see the fluence of gay ntemporari like Esquera and Billy Wright. * tutti frutti gay *
He was the worst nightmare of much of mastream whe Ameri, bee he was not jt black, he was apparently flamboyantly gay and happy to promote sexual hedonism, too. If certa parti were offend by Elvis dog pelvic thsts, you better believe that they did not want to hear about Ltle was Richard gay?
Well, acrdg to him, he was gay at the time, but now he's not. Or somethg: "I love gay people, " he said an terview the 1980s. "I believe I was the founr of gay.