{"id":2839,"date":"2022-03-11T09:07:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2022-03-11T09:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T14:07:33","slug":"richard-butterfly-locke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/11\/richard-butterfly-locke\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard (Butterfly) Locke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.bjland.ws\/blog\/LOCKE_Billy_Club.jpg\" title=\"\u201cthe original porn daddy\u201d \" vspace=\"1\" hspace=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joearky.wordpress.com\/2016\/11\/13\/two-kinds-of-hero-richard-butterfly-locke-061141-092596\/\" target=\"_window\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"> <i>TWO KINDS OF HERO: Richard (Butterfly) Locke<\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to link to this article for months, if not longer; alas, stuck in the drafts folder no more!<\/p>\n<p>A personal account of meeting Richard Locke in the 1990&#8217;s at something called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebillys.org\/\" target=\"_window\" title=\"The Billys is a heart-centered community woven together by shared values and by our shared experience as gay, bi, and queer men.\" rel=\"noopener\">The Billy Gathering,<\/a> and several times since, until 1996 when Richard passed.  I love this early line in the beautifully written acount &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;I certainly wasn\u2019t sure whether I actually wanted to meet him or just look at him, preferably from a distance.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I imagine I would&#8217;ve felt a similar awe-respect if I had been lucky enough to have seen Richard in person. Click the link, you even get a few more pics, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWO KINDS OF HERO: Richard (Butterfly) Locke I&#8217;ve been meaning to link to this article for months, if not longer; alas, stuck in the drafts folder no more! A personal account of meeting Richard Locke in the 1990&#8217;s at something called The Billy Gathering, and several times since, until 1996 when Richard passed. I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richard-locke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bjland.ws\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}