Below is a story that was said to be in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but in 2002 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch denied they had ever published it, and demanded that several websites take the story down at that time.
"A music store owner from the St. Louis area, Elliot Sanders, is claiming that while a college student at Southeast Missouri University in 1971, he had an affair with Rush Limbaugh. Sanders claims that he and Limbaugh, the well known talk radio star, had an affair that went on for about 3 months in the fall of 1971... Sanders stated that he met Limbaugh in a class he was taking, but it was only after meeting his sister, who was openly gay at that time, that he found out Rush himself was gay. "Rush was a charming man privately," says Sanders, "I met him in a class I was taking, and got on a first name basis with him. I didn't realize he was gay until his sister came to visit him. She was gay, and like, we hit it off, and she seemed shocked that I didn't know Rush was gay as well. When I found out I was like ... wow!" Sanders says that privately, Limbaugh was very sensitive and caring man, but that he was furiously angry that KFBK, the top 40 radio station he worked while still in high school would not offer him a full time job. "He was furious about that," said Sanders, "And he often told me that he was really going to show them." According to Sanders, Rush's politics at the time were somewhat middle of the road. "Rush said that he though most people are incredibly gullible, and he felt that the key to radio programming was to reach that crowd, and that it would be really, really easy. He thought he thought he could get anyone to believe anything he said, and the more outrageous is was, the more they would believe it." When asked when he thought Limbaugh "went straight," Sanders replied, "What are you talking about? I mean, he's been married four times now, do people really not get why he doesn't stay married? I guarantee none of those marriages was ever consummated." Sanders would not divulge any further details, but when asked if he feared retaliation from Limbaugh for his revelations, he stated, "No, Rush wouldn't do that, he's really a sweetie at heart, but some of the people who listen to him might. I think most of them are psychotic. I don't think these people realize he's just pandering to them for ratings, but if they find out, I wouldn't want to be there."
Then there is the Pittsburgh story of Rush as gay. DJ Jeff Christie (which was the on-air name for Rush Limbaugh) was fired from KQV from his spot in the window at 7th and Smithfield as a Top 40 DJ at work at KQV-AM (1410)( the "groovy QV")in 1973 after an arrest on Winthrop Street for lewd conduct with another man. Verified parts are that Christie was fired by KQV, that Winthrop Street was a gay pickup spot in that era, and several people have confirmed hearing that same rumor at the time. One person confirmed having heard the rumor a couple of years later in water-cooler gossip at the Richmond VA radio station where he worked. At that time, nobody knew who Jeff Christie was.
Some of Christie's on air work is preserved at Jeff Roteman's web site is at
http://14kqv.musicpage.com/ Station 1410 was the home of WRRK-FM morning host Jim Quinn who worked there as a night DJ, as well as Rush Limbaugh (under the name Jeff Christie), Porky Chedwick,the late Bill Burns, Bob Prince and Al Julius.
Anyone want to bet that the arrest of the fellow in 73 in the restroom - or alley - is no longer in the records?
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