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peter in those days; eight or nine times a day.”
Little Richard’s recalled wild threesome with longtime girlfriend, Lee Angel, and fellow singer:
“Buddy liked Angel,” Richard is quoted as saying in Little Richards authorized biography by Charles White’s. “One time Buddy came into my dressing room while I was jacking off with Angel sucking my ti*ty. Angel had the fastest tongue in the west. She was doing that to me and Buddy took out his thing. She opened up her legs and he put it in her. He was having sex with Angel, I was jacking off, and Angel was sucking me when they introduced his name on stage. He finished and went to the stage still fastening himself up. I’ll never forget that. He came and he went.”
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 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 and for his unapologetic bravery, we salute the brotha.
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