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LTLE RICHARD CALLS SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS ''UNNATURAL AFFECTNS'' YEARS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
NEW LTLE RICHARD PBS DOC DETAILS GAY ORIGS OF ‘TUTTI FTTI’: ‘THIS A’T ABOUT ICE CREAM’
LTLE RICHARD USED TO DCRIBE HIMSELF AS GAY, OMNISEXUAL BUT CHANGED HIS OUTLOOK AT 84
LTLE RICHARD: THE RIVETG SHOWMANSHIP AND TORTURED SEXUALY THAT BUILT ROCK AND ROLLTHE DIRECTOR OF THE NEW DOC LTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHG ON THE FORCE OF NATURE WHO SPIRED ELVIS, THE BEATL, PRCE, AND MORE.BY ALAN LIGHTAPRIL 18, 2023BY MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK, BOB DYLAN WROTE THAT HIS AMBN WAS “TO JO LTLE RICHARD.” THE FIRST SONG PL MCCARTNEY PERFORMED PUBLIC WAS RICHARD’S “LONG TALL SALLY” (WHICH WAS ALSO THE VERY LAST SONG THE BEATL EVER PLAYED ON STAGE). DAVID BOWIE SAID THAT WHOUT LTLE RICHARD, “I WOULDN’T HAVE GONE TO MIC.” JIMI HENDRIX PLAYED RICHARD’S BAND, UNTIL HE GOT FIRED, AND JAM BROWN’S BIG BREAK ME AS A LTLE RICHARD IMPERSONATOR.SO WHEN ONE OF THE MENTATORS THE NEW DOCUMENTARY LTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHG ASSERTS THAT “HIS DNA IS EVERYWHERE,” HE’S NOT EXAGGERATG. THE TURBOCHARGED FORCE OF NATURE BORN RICHARD WAYNE PENNIMAN PROUDLY, NSTANTLY, TOLD EVERYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN THAT HE WAS “THE NOVATOR, THE ORIGATOR, THE EMANCIPATOR, THE ARCHECT” OF ROCK & ROLL. BUT WHEN HE DIED 2020, DIRECTOR LISA CORTÉS NOTED THAT SPE THE WI RANGE OF TRIBUT BEG PAID TO THIS TOWERG PNEER, NOT ONLY WAS THERE NO LTLE RICHARD BPIC (UNLIKE HIS NTEMPORARI ELVIS PRLEY, BUDDY HOLLY, AND JERRY LEE LEWIS), BUT NO ONE HAD ATTEMPTED A DOCUMENTARY.“AS A FILMMAKER, ’S TNIP TO HAVE SUCH A BIG STORY TO EXPLORE,” SAYS CORTÉS. “BUT 'S ALSO SRY BEE YOU N'T TELL EVERYTHG. SO THAT WAS A UNIQUE CHALLENGE—WHAT IS THE LENS, WHO HAS AGENCY, WHO HAS THE MIC? AND WHAT IS GOG TO BE REVELATORY ABOUT AN DIVIDUAL AND THE EFFECTS OF THEIR BEG SUCH A TRANSGRSIVE FIGURE ON CULTURE?”IN THE SE OF LTLE RICHARD, CORTÉS (-DIRECTOR OF ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY, PRODUCER OF THE EMMY-WNG THE APOLLO, AND AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF OSR WNER PREC) WAS SIGNG UP FOR A BIG JOB. THERE’S THE NEED TO ADDRS THE UNRAPPRECIATED LEGACY OF AN ARTIST WHO LOOKED AND SOUND LIKE NOTHG THAT HAD E BEFORE—A WHIRLWD OF EXCS AND SHOWMANSHIP, BLSED WH UNTAMABLE WILDNS AND ONE OF THE GREATT PURE SGG VOIC POP HISTORY. THROUGH WELL-CHOSEN CLIPS AND TERVIEWS WH MICK JAGGER, TOM JON, AND NILE RODGERS, CORTÉS ILLTRAT THE FE FLUENCE OF LTLE RICHARD, BEYOND THE MORE OBV ALYT (HENDRIX, PRCE, MICHAEL JACKSON) ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH LIL NAS X, HARRY STYL, AND LIZZO.THE DIRECTOR, WHO STARTED HER REER THE MIC DTRY, NOT THAT BY THE TIME SHE WAS GROWG UP THE ‘80S, RICHARD HAD LARGELY BEEN RCED TO A ONE-NOTE RITURE, PERPETUALLY SHOUTG “SHUT UP!” ON TALK SHOWS. “MAKG THIS FILM WAS AN OPPORTUNY TO REALLY DISTILL HIM TO HIS SENCE,” SHE SAYS, “AND TO SEE THAT HIS SENCE NTAS MULTUS. UNFORTUNATELY, I THK FOR MANY PEOPLE, ALL THAT THEY RELATED WAS THE SURFACE PERFORMANCE, AND DIDN'T GIVE ANY GREATER SPACE TO HIS PTH.”BUT THE FILM’S MORE PLITED PROJECT IS UNPACKG RICHARD’S NTRADICTORY, TORTURED RELATNSHIP TO HIS OWN SEXUALY. AS LTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHG MONSTRAT, HE TOOK SPIRATN, BOTH STYLE AND INTY, OM BRAVE GAY MICIANS WHO PRECED AND ENURAGED HIM, AND EVEN WORKED DRAG AS PRCS LAVONNE ON THE SOUTHERN “CHL’ CIRCU.” FOR S, THOUGH, HE ALTERNATED BETWEEN CELEBRATG AND DISAVOWG HIS HOMOSEXUALY.IN ONE ARCHIVAL CLIP, HE ARGU THAT HE WAS BETTER ACCEPTED AS A RULT OF EMPHASIZG HIS QUEERNS (“IF I DIDN’T LOOK FEME, I ULDN’T WORK THE WHE CLUBS”); ANOTHER, HE TELLS DAVID LETTERMAN THAT “I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST GAY PEOPLE TO E OUT” BEFORE “GOD LET ME KNOW THAT HE MA ADAM TO BE WH EVE, NOT STEVE!” AND AT THE PEAK OF HIS FAME, HE HAS A VISN THAT ANGELS SAVE HIS FLIGHT TO ATRALIA OM CRASHG, RENOUNC ROCK & ROLL AND S NT LIFTYLE, AND ENROLLS BIBLE SCHOOL.“TO TELL THIS STORY WH RICHNS. I HAD TO LOOK AT RICHARD’S WORDS,” SAYS CORTÉS. “RICHARD’S LIKE ‘YEAH, I ED TO BE GAY, BUT I'M NOT GAY ANYMORE—'S AN ABOMATN.’ I'M NOT GOG TO BOWDLERIZE HIS STORY, BUT I'M LETTG HIM TELL .”WH HIS HIGH POMPADOUR AND MASRA, RICHARD’S E OF QUEER ATHETICS IS APPARENT, BUT HIS ACTUAL RELATNSHIPS ARE MORE NFG TO NSIR. IN THE FILM, WE HEAR OM HIS LONGTIME PANN, LEE ANGEL, THAT SHE WAS “THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE,” AND OM HIS FORMER WIFE, ERNTE, WHO NTACTED THE PRODUCTN JT AS THE FILM WAS WRAPPG TO ADD HER THOUGHTS.CORTÉS POTS OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SIR LADY JAVA, A GROUNDBREAKG TRANS PERFORMER WHO BEIEND RICHARD SOON AFTER HE MOVED WH HIS FAY OM MAN, GEIA, TO LOS ANGEL 1959. “SHE TELLS THE TTH ABOUT THE HARM HE ED, BUT SHE UNRSTOOD THAT HE WASN'T STRONG ENOUGH,” THE DIRECTOR SAYS. “LADY JAVA IS REALLY SPEAKG FOR HIS EXPERIENC AS A GAY PERSON A WAY THAT HE PUBLICLY DID NOT SPEAK ABOUT THAT MUCH.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSH2023 FALL PREVIEW: 46 FILMS TO WATCH OUT FORBY REBEC FORDHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONPROFSOR, MICIAN, AND JOURNALIST JASON KG OFFERS A SUCCCT STATEMENT OF LTLE RICHARD’S PROFOUND DILEMMA. “HE WAS VERY, VERY GOOD AT LIBERATG OTHER PEOPLE THROUGH HIS EXAMPLE,” HE SAYS. “HE WAS NOT GOOD AT LIBERATG HIMSELF.” (KG IS ONE OF A GROUP OF TENTNALLY CHOSEN YOUNG BLACK AND QUEER SCHOLARS WHO OFFER MENTARY THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENTARY.)THROUGH ALL HIS TERNAL TENSN, THERE’S ALWAYS THE SHEER POWER OF WATCHG LTLE RICHARD HIMSELF. WHENEVER HE ON SCREEN—PERFORMG OR JT TALKG (TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE’S A DIFFERENCE)—’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AWAY. THE HAIR, THE EY, THE SUS, THE PIANO PLAYG, THE PERSONA, AND, OF URSE, THE SGG…THERE HAS SIMPLY NEVER BEEN ANYONE LIKE HIM.“WH THIS FILM. I WANT YOU TO FEEL THE JOY, I WANT YOU TO FEEL THE NFLICT AND THE POWER OF THE MIC,” SAYS CORTÉS. “IT'S MORE THAN CRADLE-TO-GRAVE, ‘TUTTI FTTI,’ ‘JENNY JENNY,’ THEN HE'S ON PEE-WEE HERMAN. HE'S GOT NUANC AND LAYERS OR—HERE’S A NEW WORD THAT WAS TRODUCED TO ME TODAY—HE IS IMBRITED. IT'S LIKE THE TIL ON A ROOF, LAYERED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER.“HOW DO YOU BUILD AN ART FORM AND A GENRE?,” SHE NTU. “IT’S NOT JT FLOOR-BY-FLOOR. THERE’S AN NER STCTURAL TEGRY THAT RICHARD BROUGHT TO THE MIC. AND KEEPG WH RICHARD'S ANARCHIC SPIR, I WANT TO SHAKE UP.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSA BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF EVERYTHG HAPPENG AT THIS FALL’S FILM FTIVALS—WHOUT THE STARSA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANTHE ULTIMATE GUI TO FALL MOVIFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPALAN LIGHT

LTLE RICHARD CALLS SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS ''UNNATURAL AFFECTNS'' YEARS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

The sger has gone back and forth on the matter for years and now says beg gay or transgenr is "unnatural." * was lil richard gay *

Take the jump blu of Billy Wright, the “slow drag” vol style of Big Maybelle, or the “hip shak’ mama” Patsy Vidalia, the drag queen who MCed New Orleans club the Dew Drop Inn and threw the cy’s annual Gay Ball. A wearer of eyeler who varly scribed himself as gay or omnisexual over the years, he built upon a preexistg queer leage. As retells his rise, Cortés’s film suggts how so flamboyant a figure beme wily beloved the face of racism and homophobia: To some whe dienc, a femized Black man was ls threateng than any other kd.

His public speakg emphasized the patibily of rock and roll—and his formerly gay liftyle—wh the teachgs of happened? Robson not the “harm” Richard ed when he started spoutg homophobia. Sir Lady Java, a trans performer who was a good iend of Richard’s, says, “I feel he betrayed gay people...

In a 2017 terview on the Christian-oriented Three Angels Broadstg Network, Richard reerated a belief that homosexualy is “unnatural” while simultaneoly reaffirmg his strong Christian fah that has followed him for most of his life. “Anybody that show bs, they gon’ say you gay or straight, ” he said.

NEW LTLE RICHARD PBS DOC DETAILS GAY ORIGS OF ‘TUTTI FTTI’: ‘THIS A’T ABOUT ICE CREAM’

Ltle Richard PBS Doc reveals gay origs of 'Tutti Ftti.' * was lil richard gay *

Richard (born Richard Wayne Penniman Man, Ga., 1932) often acknowledged his liftyle as a gay man. (Intertgly enough, the origal lyrics of “Tutti Ftti” were about another gay man: “Tutti Ftti, good booty / If don’t f, don’t force / You n grease , make easy.

LTLE RICHARD USED TO DCRIBE HIMSELF AS GAY, OMNISEXUAL BUT CHANGED HIS OUTLOOK AT 84

Ltle Richard stggled for s wh his sexualy, fah. One of the foundg fathers of rock 'n' roll, he said he was gay. * was lil richard gay *

In addn to his homosexual activy, he beme volved voyrism his 20s, payg men to let him watch them have sex wh women, sometim forcibly.

“My whole gay activi were really to masturbatn, ” he said. In 1995, he proudly told Penthoe, “I’ve been gay all my life and I know God is a God of love, not of hate.

Yet, hidn far om the spotlight was a stggle many voted fans didn’t new documentary “Ltle Richard: I Am Everythg, ” which is now available for streamg, explor the artist’s impact on rock ’n’ roll and his endurg mil legacy, along wh his ner stggl to embrace both his Christiany and his inty as a gay Cortés, the film’s director, said she cid to participate a documentary about the Black in’s life after readg about “all the amazg people” that he nnected wh throughout his life and the fluence he had exerted around the world at the time of his ath 2020 at age 87.

LTLE RICHARD: THE RIVETG SHOWMANSHIP AND TORTURED SEXUALY THAT BUILT ROCK AND ROLLTHE DIRECTOR OF THE NEW DOC LTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHG ON THE FORCE OF NATURE WHO SPIRED ELVIS, THE BEATL, PRCE, AND MORE.BY ALAN LIGHTAPRIL 18, 2023BY MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIV/GETTY IMAG.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEIN HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK, BOB DYLAN WROTE THAT HIS AMBN WAS “TO JO LTLE RICHARD.” THE FIRST SONG PL MCCARTNEY PERFORMED PUBLIC WAS RICHARD’S “LONG TALL SALLY” (WHICH WAS ALSO THE VERY LAST SONG THE BEATL EVER PLAYED ON STAGE). DAVID BOWIE SAID THAT WHOUT LTLE RICHARD, “I WOULDN’T HAVE GONE TO MIC.” JIMI HENDRIX PLAYED RICHARD’S BAND, UNTIL HE GOT FIRED, AND JAM BROWN’S BIG BREAK ME AS A LTLE RICHARD IMPERSONATOR.SO WHEN ONE OF THE MENTATORS THE NEW DOCUMENTARY LTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHG ASSERTS THAT “HIS DNA IS EVERYWHERE,” HE’S NOT EXAGGERATG. THE TURBOCHARGED FORCE OF NATURE BORN RICHARD WAYNE PENNIMAN PROUDLY, NSTANTLY, TOLD EVERYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN THAT HE WAS “THE NOVATOR, THE ORIGATOR, THE EMANCIPATOR, THE ARCHECT” OF ROCK & ROLL. BUT WHEN HE DIED 2020, DIRECTOR LISA CORTÉS NOTED THAT SPE THE WI RANGE OF TRIBUT BEG PAID TO THIS TOWERG PNEER, NOT ONLY WAS THERE NO LTLE RICHARD BPIC (UNLIKE HIS NTEMPORARI ELVIS PRLEY, BUDDY HOLLY, AND JERRY LEE LEWIS), BUT NO ONE HAD ATTEMPTED A DOCUMENTARY.“AS A FILMMAKER, ’S TNIP TO HAVE SUCH A BIG STORY TO EXPLORE,” SAYS CORTÉS. “BUT 'S ALSO SRY BEE YOU N'T TELL EVERYTHG. SO THAT WAS A UNIQUE CHALLENGE—WHAT IS THE LENS, WHO HAS AGENCY, WHO HAS THE MIC? AND WHAT IS GOG TO BE REVELATORY ABOUT AN DIVIDUAL AND THE EFFECTS OF THEIR BEG SUCH A TRANSGRSIVE FIGURE ON CULTURE?”IN THE SE OF LTLE RICHARD, CORTÉS (-DIRECTOR OF ALL IN: THE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY, PRODUCER OF THE EMMY-WNG THE APOLLO, AND AN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF OSR WNER PREC) WAS SIGNG UP FOR A BIG JOB. THERE’S THE NEED TO ADDRS THE UNRAPPRECIATED LEGACY OF AN ARTIST WHO LOOKED AND SOUND LIKE NOTHG THAT HAD E BEFORE—A WHIRLWD OF EXCS AND SHOWMANSHIP, BLSED WH UNTAMABLE WILDNS AND ONE OF THE GREATT PURE SGG VOIC POP HISTORY. THROUGH WELL-CHOSEN CLIPS AND TERVIEWS WH MICK JAGGER, TOM JON, AND NILE RODGERS, CORTÉS ILLTRAT THE FE FLUENCE OF LTLE RICHARD, BEYOND THE MORE OBV ALYT (HENDRIX, PRCE, MICHAEL JACKSON) ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH LIL NAS X, HARRY STYL, AND LIZZO.THE DIRECTOR, WHO STARTED HER REER THE MIC DTRY, NOT THAT BY THE TIME SHE WAS GROWG UP THE ‘80S, RICHARD HAD LARGELY BEEN RCED TO A ONE-NOTE RITURE, PERPETUALLY SHOUTG “SHUT UP!” ON TALK SHOWS. “MAKG THIS FILM WAS AN OPPORTUNY TO REALLY DISTILL HIM TO HIS SENCE,” SHE SAYS, “AND TO SEE THAT HIS SENCE NTAS MULTUS. UNFORTUNATELY, I THK FOR MANY PEOPLE, ALL THAT THEY RELATED WAS THE SURFACE PERFORMANCE, AND DIDN'T GIVE ANY GREATER SPACE TO HIS PTH.”BUT THE FILM’S MORE PLITED PROJECT IS UNPACKG RICHARD’S NTRADICTORY, TORTURED RELATNSHIP TO HIS OWN SEXUALY. AS LTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHG MONSTRAT, HE TOOK SPIRATN, BOTH STYLE AND INTY, OM BRAVE GAY MICIANS WHO PRECED AND ENURAGED HIM, AND EVEN WORKED DRAG AS PRCS LAVONNE ON THE SOUTHERN “CHL’ CIRCU.” FOR S, THOUGH, HE ALTERNATED BETWEEN CELEBRATG AND DISAVOWG HIS HOMOSEXUALY.IN ONE ARCHIVAL CLIP, HE ARGU THAT HE WAS BETTER ACCEPTED AS A RULT OF EMPHASIZG HIS QUEERNS (“IF I DIDN’T LOOK FEME, I ULDN’T WORK THE WHE CLUBS”); ANOTHER, HE TELLS DAVID LETTERMAN THAT “I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST GAY PEOPLE TO E OUT” BEFORE “GOD LET ME KNOW THAT HE MA ADAM TO BE WH EVE, NOT STEVE!” AND AT THE PEAK OF HIS FAME, HE HAS A VISN THAT ANGELS SAVE HIS FLIGHT TO ATRALIA OM CRASHG, RENOUNC ROCK & ROLL AND S NT LIFTYLE, AND ENROLLS BIBLE SCHOOL.“TO TELL THIS STORY WH RICHNS. I HAD TO LOOK AT RICHARD’S WORDS,” SAYS CORTÉS. “RICHARD’S LIKE ‘YEAH, I ED TO BE GAY, BUT I'M NOT GAY ANYMORE—'S AN ABOMATN.’ I'M NOT GOG TO BOWDLERIZE HIS STORY, BUT I'M LETTG HIM TELL .”WH HIS HIGH POMPADOUR AND MASRA, RICHARD’S E OF QUEER ATHETICS IS APPARENT, BUT HIS ACTUAL RELATNSHIPS ARE MORE NFG TO NSIR. IN THE FILM, WE HEAR OM HIS LONGTIME PANN, LEE ANGEL, THAT SHE WAS “THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE,” AND OM HIS FORMER WIFE, ERNTE, WHO NTACTED THE PRODUCTN JT AS THE FILM WAS WRAPPG TO ADD HER THOUGHTS.CORTÉS POTS OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF SIR LADY JAVA, A GROUNDBREAKG TRANS PERFORMER WHO BEIEND RICHARD SOON AFTER HE MOVED WH HIS FAY OM MAN, GEIA, TO LOS ANGEL 1959. “SHE TELLS THE TTH ABOUT THE HARM HE ED, BUT SHE UNRSTOOD THAT HE WASN'T STRONG ENOUGH,” THE DIRECTOR SAYS. “LADY JAVA IS REALLY SPEAKG FOR HIS EXPERIENC AS A GAY PERSON A WAY THAT HE PUBLICLY DID NOT SPEAK ABOUT THAT MUCH.”MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSH2023 FALL PREVIEW: 46 FILMS TO WATCH OUT FORBY REBEC FORDHOW MADONNA TURNED THE LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SET INTO A THREE-RG CIRCBY ER CARLSONPROFSOR, MICIAN, AND JOURNALIST JASON KG OFFERS A SUCCCT STATEMENT OF LTLE RICHARD’S PROFOUND DILEMMA. “HE WAS VERY, VERY GOOD AT LIBERATG OTHER PEOPLE THROUGH HIS EXAMPLE,” HE SAYS. “HE WAS NOT GOOD AT LIBERATG HIMSELF.” (KG IS ONE OF A GROUP OF TENTNALLY CHOSEN YOUNG BLACK AND QUEER SCHOLARS WHO OFFER MENTARY THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENTARY.)THROUGH ALL HIS TERNAL TENSN, THERE’S ALWAYS THE SHEER POWER OF WATCHG LTLE RICHARD HIMSELF. WHENEVER HE ON SCREEN—PERFORMG OR JT TALKG (TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE’S A DIFFERENCE)—’S IMPOSSIBLE TO LOOK AWAY. THE HAIR, THE EY, THE SUS, THE PIANO PLAYG, THE PERSONA, AND, OF URSE, THE SGG…THERE HAS SIMPLY NEVER BEEN ANYONE LIKE HIM.“WH THIS FILM. I WANT YOU TO FEEL THE JOY, I WANT YOU TO FEEL THE NFLICT AND THE POWER OF THE MIC,” SAYS CORTÉS. “IT'S MORE THAN CRADLE-TO-GRAVE, ‘TUTTI FTTI,’ ‘JENNY JENNY,’ THEN HE'S ON PEE-WEE HERMAN. HE'S GOT NUANC AND LAYERS OR—HERE’S A NEW WORD THAT WAS TRODUCED TO ME TODAY—HE IS IMBRITED. IT'S LIKE THE TIL ON A ROOF, LAYERED ON TOP OF ONE ANOTHER.“HOW DO YOU BUILD AN ART FORM AND A GENRE?,” SHE NTU. “IT’S NOT JT FLOOR-BY-FLOOR. THERE’S AN NER STCTURAL TEGRY THAT RICHARD BROUGHT TO THE MIC. AND KEEPG WH RICHARD'S ANARCHIC SPIR, I WANT TO SHAKE UP.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSA BIRD’S-EYE VIEW OF EVERYTHG HAPPENG AT THIS FALL’S FILM FTIVALS—WHOUT THE STARSA SER SETBACK FOR TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELFMEET KYLE DCHANEL, THE PRETEND PLAYBOY WHO SEEMS TO HAVE FOOLED HALF OF MANHATTANTHE ULTIMATE GUI TO FALL MOVIFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPALAN LIGHT

He was first troduced to gospel mic Pentestal church and, as a teenager, he was kicked out of the hoe by his father for beg gay. Throughout the 1970s, Ltle Richard stggled wh dg e, traveled back and forth between Christian mic and secular mic, and at tim nounced homosexualy, and once said, “If God n save an old homosexual like me, he n save anybody. ” In a 1982 terview, he told David Letterman that he had been gay all his life but that God had let him know that “He ma Adam be wh Eve, not Steve.

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LTLE RICHARD USED TO DCRIBE HIMSELF AS GAY, OMNISEXUAL BUT CHANGED HIS OUTLOOK AT 84

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LTLE RICHARD CALLS SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS ''UNNATURAL AFFECTNS'' YEARS AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

NEW LTLE RICHARD PBS DOC DETAILS GAY ORIGS OF ‘TUTTI FTTI’: ‘THIS A’T ABOUT ICE CREAM’

LTLE RICHARD USED TO DCRIBE HIMSELF AS GAY, OMNISEXUAL BUT CHANGED HIS OUTLOOK AT 84

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