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peter in those days; eight or nine times a day.”
Little Richard’s longtime girlfriend recalls the threesome Little Richard exposed:
Richard’s then girlfriend, Lee Angel, who is now in her 70’s, said that she was angry at Little Richard for a while for fabricating a threesome that he said they had with Caucasian singer, Buddy Holly, back in the day. Little Richard claimed that Buddy had sexual relations with Ms. Angel during their alleged encounter, while Ms. Angel was performing other sexual acts on him. Lee Angel was an exotic dancer back then and Little Richard said they were known to have some interesting sexual encounters during those years.
Little Richard on his complex sexuality:
‘We are all both male and female. Sex to me is like a smorgasbord. Whatever I feel like, I go for. What kind of sexual am I? I am omnisexual!
On how he always included the Bible into his orgies and other sexscapades:
[Little Richard] was raised with the fearsome imagery of the Southern Baptist tradition. [He’s] struggled to reconcile the scriptural doctrine of his childhood with the temptations that come with fame. None has explored the opposing extremes of holy restraint and secular indulgence so comprehensively as Little Richard. His Bible, which was almost always by his side, doubled as his contacts book.
“When I had all these orgies going on,” he said, “I would get up and go and pick up my Bible. Sometimes I had my Bible right by me.”
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[Source: GQ Magazine]
I wonder had Little Richard been an artist of today, if his sexuality would have been as big of an issue as it was throughout his life. Would his father had been a little more understanding of what Richard was dealing with? Would Little Richard have still felt the pressure to attempt to like women? Would society have accepted and given him the proper accolades he deserves for his musical contributions? Those are questions we’ll never have the answers to, but those are answers that Little Richard probably doesn’t need because regardless of if society accepted him or not, he has proven time and time again that he will always be who he is no matter what.
