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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.
IS RICHIE RICH GAY
* was little richie gay *
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. ” 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.