ANSWER #1: Y he is gayANSWER #2: You need to clarify who you are referrg to: Could be "Ltle Richard", the pop rerdg artist of "Tutti Ftti" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" fame?If so, the answer seems to be a fe "perhaps and perhaps not" and not the seemgly assertive y" of the above rponse. Pansexual may be a better way of scribg the flamboyant mician. He has, by his own admissn, done drag (not a fe ditn of beg gay, per se), worn make-up (great for attractg attentn, and allowg him to get close to women while the androgyny ma men feel ls threatened) and, on the flip si, done votnal mic and has been a mister spreadg the gospel. He has certaly had liaisons wh women and possibly men, sometim at the same very early rock-and-roll, showmanship allowed him to play to the racier si which gave rise, rightly or not, to the ia that he is only person who really knows is Ltle Richard Pkerton himself. And he may not even be sure himself. And the end, do matter, really?
Contents:
- LTLE RICHARD WAS ANTI-GAY WHEN HE DIED, BUT HIS QUEER CULTURAL FLUENCE OVERSHADOWS ALL
- IS RICHIE RICH 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. * was little richie gay *
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:. “I have rejected homosexualy.
IS RICHIE RICH GAY
The sger has gone back and forth on the matter for years and now says beg gay or transgenr is "unnatural." * was little richie gay *
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.