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- "SCREAMGLY GAY" REV RICHARD COL ON THE COMMUNARDS, FAME AND GRIEFIN A RECENT TERVIEW THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOURNALIST, MICIAN AND PRIT OPENED UP ABOUT THE LOSS OF HIS PARTNERNORTHANTSLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJS MORENGAGEMENT PRODUCER15:33, 9 AUG 2020BOOKMARKREVEREND RICHARD COL (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA)SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO GET THE LATT NORTHANTS HEADL STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR EE EMAIL UPDATMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO GET THE LATT NORTHANTS HEADL STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR EE EMAIL UPDATINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
- REV RICHARD COL: 'I'M THE GO-TO GAY'
"SCREAMGLY GAY" REV RICHARD COL ON THE COMMUNARDS, FAME AND GRIEFIN A RECENT TERVIEW THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOURNALIST, MICIAN AND PRIT OPENED UP ABOUT THE LOSS OF HIS PARTNERNORTHANTSLIVEBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYJS MORENGAGEMENT PRODUCER15:33, 9 AUG 2020BOOKMARKREVEREND RICHARD COL (IMAGE: WIKIMEDIA)SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO GET THE LATT NORTHANTS HEADL STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR EE EMAIL UPDATMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO GET THE LATT NORTHANTS HEADL STRAIGHT TO YOUR BOX WH OUR EE EMAIL UPDATINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
Reverend Richard Col has always been openly gay, havg prevly spoken about the ‘mental crisis’ he suffered followg his g out, which ultimately lead to him beg diagnosed wh clil prsn. ” Richard wrote his 2014 memoir, Fathomls Rich, that he was always 'screamgly gay', revealg that he me out to his mother when he was jt 16.
" "I was stupid and I had a lot of money I didn't really do anythg wh" Dpe meetg Jimmy Somerville Gay's the Word bookshop Bloomsbury before gog on to form The Communards 1985, Richard admted he didn't origally have any ambn to be a pop star. They didn’t que succeed, but they smuggled left-wg polics to the mastream via huge sgl cludg Don’t Leave Me This Way and Never Can Say Goodbye, scribg their iologi Smash Hs while also tryg to pe wh the ravag AIDS was havg on the gay muny.
Gay marriage is nothg remarkable now, which is really good. Richard had known Jimmy before Bronski Beat began, iends sce meetg the gay scene among London’s squats 1982. “We did those vers bee we were gay men of a certa age, where dance mic wasn’t jt entertament, was the sound of liberatn.
REV RICHARD COL: 'I'M THE GO-TO GAY'
The disease had begun to have a huge impact among gay people while Communards were startg. "I started to bee terted that whole ia of a transvte personaly, and at the same time I found out that Armistead Mp, the famo gay thor, was my send .
In the mid-'80s she was as a member of the Communards, a tr led by gay activist Jimmy Somerville, who enjoyed a massive h wh their ver of the soul classic "Don't Leave Me This Way". "Though Morris wasn't gay, she was damned if she was gog to play the media's game and say so.
Twenty-five years ago this month, No 1 the UK sgl chart was Don't Leave Me This Way, an energetic renrg of the Harold Melv and the Blue Not soul classic by gay 80s synthpop duo the Communards. Warm, whimsil and blsed wh a voice that pretty much f "mellifluo", he now prents Rad 4's popular Saturday morng show Saturday Live and is prentg a new four-part Rad 3 seri lled Out the World: a Global Gay was, he nces, "the go-to gay".