To: janetjanet998
Howie Carr says that “flamboyant” in an obituary notice is newspaperese for “homosexual”. NTTAWWT.
10 posted on
05/09/2020 8:18:45 AM PDT by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Aeneas to his fellow shipwrecked refugees)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Confirmed bachelor was also used in the past.
11 posted on
05/09/2020 8:20:24 AM PDT by
LukeL
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
26 posted on
05/09/2020 8:57:16 AM PDT by
Pining_4_TX
("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Only rumors - he never claimed to be homosexual and nobody ever claimed to have "been" with him.
The make-up was part of his schtick. You wouldn't call Mark Bolan or Alice Cooper homo because they wore makeup.
Little Richard was a Christian man - a co-worker of mine met him on a flight and Little Richard talked about the Lord and gave him a bible.
35 posted on
05/09/2020 9:13:12 AM PDT by
Psalm 73
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