Was Richard the Lnheart gay? • Troy Media

Contents:

• DéCèS L’ANCIEN CRIQUE RICHARD GAY
• RICHARD ROUILARD, 43, JOURNALIST AND ADVOTE FOR GAY RIGHTS
• CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART
• RICHARD GAY GEIA
• IS ROBERT RI'CHARD GAY?
• WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?
• RICHARD GAY

DéCèS L’ANCIEN CRIQUE RICHARD GAY

Crique céma journal Le Devoir durant l anné 1970 et 1980, Richard Gay t décédé le 21 février à l’âge 76 ans, entouré s proch.

Né à Montréal en 1946, Richard Gay déuvr le céma par l’entremise s sss animés Walt Disney. Entre ux « séanc » dans l cémas montréalais, Richard Gay équenta assidûment l cé-clubs anisés en marge s class.

Pendant s étus, il llabora journal étudiant du Collège Sate-Marie, journal du quartier Notre-Dame--Grâce… Maîtrise en ltérature ançaise l’Universé McGill et diplôme l’Éle normale supérire l’Universé Montréal en poche, Richard Gay mença à enseigner la ltérature ançaise llège Notre-Dame avant qu’on lui mandât d’y donner un urs céma. Toujours dans le portra que lui nsacra Séquence, Richard Gay y alla cette anecdote révélatrice: « Je suis ouvert à tout.

RICHARD ROUILARD, 43, JOURNALIST AND ADVOTE FOR GAY RIGHTS

Richard Rouilard, one of the natn's most proment gay journalists, died early Wednday of plitns om AIDS.

He was Rouilard ma his impact on gay media at the Advote, a natnal gay and lbian magaze. After beg edor chief 1990, he brought the magaze to natnal attentn wh stori such as one allegg that even though the ary barred gays and lbians, a Pentagon spokman was gay.

CEL, ANTI-ENGLISH AND ALMOST CERTALY GAY: MEET THE REAL RICHARD THE LNHEART

"I thk he was most proud of turng the Advote around and beg on the vanguard of brgg gay rights to the mastream, " said Mary McNamara, a journalist and iend. He graduated om law school and moved to San Francis the 1970s, where he -found Gay Rights Advot, a law firm voted to civil rights. In two years wh the Advote, he transformed the flaggg gay liftyle magaze to the largt-circulatn gay and lbian publitn the untry, buildg s paid subscriptn base om 60, 000 June 1990 to 120, 000.

Rouilard's ascennce to the edorship of the 25-year-old magaze, "The Advote had bee irrelevant, absolutely irrelevant, " said Cleve Jon, a veteran gay activist. "It had been transformed over the years to a gay Town and Country. Soon followed ver stori on Madonna, homophobia Hollywood, Oliver Stone and untry sger k.

The Los Angel-based magaze ma headl other publitns as well, particularly when published a story "outg" a Pentagon spokman who the magaze said was a closeted gay workg for an employer wh a policy of barrg gays and lbians. |Richard Rouilard, 43, Journalist And Advote for Gay Rights ADVERTISEMENTMay 9, 1996See the article s origal ntext om May 9, 1996, Sectn B, Page 16Buy ReprtsTimMache is an exclive benef for home livery and digal the ArchiveThis is a digized versn of an article om The Tim’s prt archive, before the start of onle publitn 1996.

RICHARD GAY GEIA

Richard Rouilard, a proment gay-rights advote and a former edor chief of The Advote, a natnally distributed gay and lbian news magaze, died yterday at his home Wt Hollywood, Calif. He was e of ath was plitns om AIDS, said Mary McNamara, a fay Osborn, former executive director of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force said yterday: "He was both a polil lear and a cultural lear. He put gay journalism on the mastream map.

IS ROBERT RI'CHARD GAY?

" He was a founr of the Lbian and Gay Journalists Rouilard attend Upsala College New Jersey and South Texas College of Law Hoton. In 1979, he was a -founr of the Natnal Gay Rights Advot, the first public tert law firm for gay people the Uned Rouilard (pronounced e-LARD) started his wrg reer Los Angel 1981, wrg a society lumn lled "Bunny Mars" for several lol newspapers and magaz. In that job, he got the attentn of mastream media wh vtigative articl about homosexual life and also signed a self-ntaed removable sectn to nsolidate sexually explic advertisements and swched the magaze to high-qualy paper, steps that magaze-dtry experts creded wh improvg The Advote's circulatn and advertisg Rouilard was born to a French flight attendant who abandoned him as an fant.

WAS RICHARD THE LNHEART GAY?

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 16 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Richard Rouilard, 43, Journalist And Advote for Gay Rights. Is Richard Prton Gay?

Sce there is no rmatn on Richard Prton havg a girliend, many people believe that he might be gay. However, Richard Prton hasn’t e out as gay public. Along wh verg the daily news of regn, Gonzal' reportg has clud medil marijuana, gay marriage, drive-by shootgs, Jerry Brown, Willie Brown, the U.

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RICHARD GAY

As much as some voic the field of munitn and ter have speculated if Robert Ri'chard is gay, there is no kd of evince that n rroborate this.

Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Robert Ri'chard is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg.

More and more celebri adm every year that they are gay, but this is not the se wh Robert Ri'chard sce this celebry never said so. Celebri such as Robert Ri'chard have not admted they are homosexual, this is bee they are not at all gay or bee they are and don't want to go public.