Officially, "Long" was about his height
Unofficially, I haven't heard. But musician
Long John Baldry is dead. Asexually dead.
That's right, so far I haven't seen a damned single obit that mentions Baldry's homosexuality. Mainstream reporters must think that it's bad to be gay. Mainstream reporters make me sick.
Check your local media, see what they've written or broadcast. Then contact them and tell them not to be such fucking bigots. Tell them we've had enough of their silence.
ADDENDUM Canadian Press ran this as the last paragraph of
its obit -- a sentence that I did not see in ANY of the print versions that I read over the weekend: "He leaves behind siblings Margaret and Roger and his close friend and partner, Felix (Oz) Rexach." Like I said, check what your local media outlet ran -- and call them on it.
TWO DAYS LATER, and the Gazette is clearly uninterested in running my letter, chastizing editors for lopping off John's man-handled willy in their obit. And this just two days before the Pride parade. Shame.