New York Tim fally adms former mayor Ed Koch was gay ne years after his ath - LGBTQ Natn

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Ne years after his ath, The New York Tim has fally gotten around to admtg that former New York Cy Mayor Ed Koch was gay.

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NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH

Ed Koch’s unwillgns to speak about his personal life led to mors that the former three-term New York Cy mayor was gay. * mayor koch gay *

Ne years after his ath, The New York Tim has fally gotten around to admtg that former New York Cy Mayor Ed Koch was gay. That Koch was gay wasn’t exactly a secret. Ined, Mar Cuomo, his rival the electn, nied was behd mpaign signs that read “Vote for Cuomo, not the homo.

Still, at the time, Koch was a ngrsman for the Wt Village, one of the gayt districts the natn. “I don’t happen to be homosexual, ” he told a rad statn.

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His advisers saw AIDS as a gay issue and wanted to protect Koch at all sts. He surround himself wh a llectn of younger gay iends who tried to play matchmaker for him and enuraged him to e out.

Perhaps evably there were mors, some promoted by his enemi, that he was gay. Meantime, was wily known the media world that Koch was gay. One of Koch’s clost gay iends at the time of his ath was a former Tim reporter who would later out Koch a book 2019.

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But as open as Koch uld be, my lleagu Matt Flegenheimer and Rosa Golnsohn wrote a new profile of him, he straed to nceal one aspect of his life: He was gay.

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It’s hard to ’s a meetg he had wh the Gay Men’s Health Crisis lears. But when they did, Leonard Bloom, who was on the board of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, told that Koch was credibly unfortable. Even though nobody the room asked, Koch felt pelled to say to his senr team, “I am not a homosexual.

Gettg outed seemed like an existential threat to belonged to maybe the last generatn of New York policians for whom beg openly gay was polilly had a mpaign nsultant who ma homophobic remarks and mand to know if the mors were te.

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New York Tim fally adms former mayor Ed Koch was gay ne years after his ath - LGBTQ Natn .

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