9-Year-Old Boy Who Came Out as Gay Died by Suici

Contents:

• GAY IN LLIE JORDAN HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 67
• LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
• COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
• A MAN SHOT & KILLED HIS 14-YEAR-OLD SON BEE HE WAS GAY

GAY IN LLIE JORDAN HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 67

"Related: Llie Jordan Is the Baton-Twirlg Comic the World Needs a Crisis"I'd do an exercise vio bee there are so many gay men wh the perfect abs and they do exercise vios, " Jordan told The Advote 2020 for a digal ver story about how the viral vios started.

In 2021, Jordan released his first album, tled Company's Com', featurg gay in Dolly Parton and out sger-songwrer Brandi Carlile among others, and he went on to make his Grand Ole Opry but as a rult. 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.

LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL

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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:.

COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG

“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.

” Yet, by 2017, Richard ma a veiled reference to homosexualy as an “unnatural affectn.

A MAN SHOT & KILLED HIS 14-YEAR-OLD SON BEE HE WAS GAY

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. A 9-year-old Colorado boy who died by suici last week had been bullied at school after announcg over the summer that he was gay and exprsg his sire to share the news wh his classmat, his mother said.

Pierce said her son told her over the summer that he was gay while they were together her r and he was ridg the back seat. “He was like, ‘Mom I’m gay, ’ ” she said, reports KDVR. The revelatn apparently eed Jamel to share the rmatn wh others, his mom said: “He went to school and said he was gonna tell people he’s gay bee he’s proud of himself.

A 14-year-old boy was killed by his own father Thursday, and people close to the victim say that the man shot the boy out of homophobia. Sonja Jon, who scribed herself as Gvanni’s former foster mother, said that Wenll hated the fact that his son was gay.