![]() “The kids would call me faggot, sissy, freak, punk. ![]() They thought I was trying to twist and walk feminine,” he told Charles White in The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Quasar of Rock, an authorized biography. ![]() He was different, born that way: His right leg was shorter than the left. It was a sign from the start that he was no one thing, had no one identity. His parents wanted to call him Ricardo, but the birth certificate said Richard, his maternal grandfather’s name. He was born the third of 12 children in Macon, Georgia, on December 5th, 1932, though he sometimes said it was December 25th, perhaps to honor Christ his savior, perhaps to burnish his own legend, or more likely both.
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