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03 Oct 1996
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Pia-Kristina Garde Sweden 13 Sep 2016
I interviewed Richard Locke in 1987, and tried to follow him for a while. But he was on his way to the desert, and no way could I follow him! I eventually connected with his brother, Robert Locke, who has written about Richard, and he took me to Richards grave.
John Mehring San Francisco 28 May 2013
Michael T. Roper memorialized Richard Locke in his book, Memories of My Gay Brothers (2000).
John Mehring San Francisco 21 Apr 2013
Richard wrote a series of columns in the mid 1980s in the Bay Area Reporter called Sensible Sex. He married sense with eroticism -- and did so very well -- for gay men at risk in mid-1980s San Francisco.
