Richard Locke – A Whirling Dervish!

I was hoping I could do this work in a chronological order, but things happen, so I will improvise now and then.

Since I wrote one of my previous post, I got in touch with Richard Locke´s brother, Robert ”Bob” Locke, who is an actor and an author. We had met in 2014, when told me about Richard and took me to his grave.

When I interviewed Richard in 1987 – and that was a wild interview that I will write about later – he told me that AIDS was behind him… He had become an activist, trying to smuggle medicines from Mexico. He wanted to fight, he wanted to raise hell, and become a Swirling Dervish!

Robert Locke has written an interesting and moving text about his brother, and sent me this photo.

A Biographical Fragment of Robert and Richard Locke.”Robert Locke´s account of his brother Richard Locke´s struggle with AIDS.”:

http://webpages.csus.edu/~boblocke/extext/living.html

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I had reason to contact Robert Locke some time later, about him self.

Författare: Pia-Kristina Garde

Born 1951, in Stockholm. Actress, author and libraryassistent. Retired from all, but Writing. In 1977 I published two books, one of them was a lay persons book on dying patients at a hospital in Stockholm, and at S:t Christopher´s Hospice, outside London. I have since then written one book about survivors from the concentration camps that came to Sweden in 1945, and several books about a Swedish author, Karin Boye (1900-1941).