Van Cliburn: Mil legend, fahful Baptist, gay man | Fred Clark

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• WATCH: REMEMBERG GAY PIANIST VAN CLIBURN
• VAN CLIBURN: MIL LEGEND, FAHFUL BAPTIST, GAY MAN
• PRO AND N: VAN CLIBURN WAS NOT A GAY E CELEBRE; GOV. RICK PERRY'S LOGY WAS CUR, NSIRG HIS STANCE
• GAY PIANIST VAN CLIBURN DEAD AT 78
• "FLT IN OUR STARS" ACTOR ANSEL ELGORT STARRG AS GAY PIANIST VAN {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY ALEXANR STEVENSONNOVEMBER 2, 2014/11:00 AMBY ALEXANR STEVENSONNOVEMBER 2, 2014 / 11:00 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"\"FLT IN OUR STARS\" ACTOR ANSEL ELGORT STARRG AS GAY PIANIST VAN CLIBURN","DATEPUBLISHED":"2014-11-02T16:00:28.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2014-11-02T16:00:28.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"ALEXANR STEVENSON","KEYWORDS":"NNN HONORS","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ANSEL ELGORT, THE DREAMY MALE LEAD  THE FLT OUR STARS, HAD BEEN ST AS POPULAR 1950S PIANIST VAN CLIBURN, WHO WON THE PRTIG INTERNATNAL TCHAIKOVSKY COMPETN AT AGE 23. AN AMERIN EMBRACED BY THE RSIANS, VAN CLIBURN WAS NSIRED A HERO FOR HELPG TO SOFTEN AMERIN-SOVIET RELATNS AT THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BUT HE WAS ALSO {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UNLIKE LIBERACE, THOUGH, HE WAS WHAT THE NEW YORK TIM LLED "DISCREET HIS HOMOSEXUALY." HE WAS A VOUT BAPTIST AND ACTIVE THE CHURCH FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE, REGULARLY ATTENDG FORT WORTH’S LARGE BROADWAY BAPTIST CHURCH. (IRONILLY, BROADWAY BAPTIST ACTUALLY HAD S MEMBERSHIP REVOKED BY THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN 2009 OVER S SUPPORT OF THE LGBT MUNY.){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HE HAD A HUGE FEMALE DIENCE—WOMEN ALWAYS FOUND HIM VERY ATTRACTIVE. HE WAS SORT OF THE PERFECT BACHELOR EVERYONE WANTED TO MARRY. THERE WERE OLR WOMEN WHO SIMPLY FELL AT HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THERE’S A STORY I’M TOLD WHERE AN OLR FEMALE FAN GREETED HIM ONCE AND TOLD HIM WH TEARS, ‘YOU’VE MA MY LIFE WORTH LIVG.’ HE TOOK HER HANDS HIS AND HELD HER TO HIM AND SAID, ‘THIS IS SUCH A SPECIAL MOMENT MY LIFE, YOU’VE TOUCHED MY HEART EPLY.’{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BACK THE EARLIER YEARS, I DON’T THK HIS DIENCE WOULD HAVE EVEN KNOWN WHAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS MUCH LS ACCEPTED . IT WAS A MUCH DIFFERENT ERA.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE LATE 1990S, A FORMER BOYIEND TRIED TO SUE VAN CLIBURN, UNSUCCSFULLY, FOR PALIMONY, PUTTG HIS SEXUALY ON DISPLAY THE TABLOIDS. HE SPENT HIS FAL YEARS WH LONGTIME PARTNER THOMAS SMH, BEFORE DYG OF BONE NCER 2013 AT AGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}VAN CLIBURN THE FILM WILL BE PRODUCED BY WYCK GODEY AND MARTY BOWEN, THE DUO WHO PRODUCED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}H/T: DEADLE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}NNN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

WATCH: REMEMBERG GAY PIANIST VAN CLIBURN

An exhstive obuary The New York Tim says Cliburn was "discreet his homosexualy, " and also mentns that Cliburn is survived by Thomas L.

Van Cliburn: Mil legend, fahful Baptist, gay man. Cliburn was also Broadway’s most famo gay member, though ltle was said about his private life except for a palimony lawsu brought agast him 1996 that was eventually dismissed.

VAN CLIBURN: MIL LEGEND, FAHFUL BAPTIST, GAY MAN

In 2009, the Southern Baptist Conventn revoked the church’s membership after an unprecented vtigatn by SBC lears to whether media reports about the ngregatn’s clivens placed vlatn of a policy banng church that “act to affirm, approve or endorse homosexual behavr.

PRO AND N: VAN CLIBURN WAS NOT A GAY E CELEBRE; GOV. RICK PERRY'S LOGY WAS CUR, NSIRG HIS STANCE

Although he was the fartht thg om a gay rights activist, Cliburn was a gay man who is survived by his long-term pann. On the personal ont, Cliburn was a vout Baptist but also quietly gay; the late ’90s, his longtime partner, Thomas Zaremba, unsuccsfully sued the pianist over pensatn claims. But even then he was livg a discreet homosexual life.

Y, the lols would know that Broadway Baptist Church is a doctrally progrsive, culturally liberal Baptist ngregatn — one that has ma headl, through the years, as stggled to be more gay-iendly, while retag s Baptist roots.

”Personal History and LegaciVan Cliburn was gay, and he lived wh Thomas Zaremba for a long time. A pianist, not a eIf ever anythg proved that gay activists are arrted adolcents, is Caldwell’s attempt to pture Van Cliburn as a symbol for their “e. Michelangelo may have been gay, Van Cliburn may have been gay — but that is not who they were.

GAY PIANIST VAN CLIBURN DEAD AT 78

In 2004, there was a predictable Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and 1994 a ls-expected gut appearance as himself the TV rtoon Iron the personal ont, Cliburn was a vout Baptist but also quietly gay; the late '90s, his longtime partner, Thomas Zaremba, unsuccsfully sued the pianist over pensatn claims.

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He was far beyond a mere stigmatized label reviled by homophob who mean and dismiss LGBT people as send class sners.

The high qualy and digny he brought to the ternatnal mil stage sets him among the pantheon of gifted artists who happened to have been born gay. The world famo classil gay pianist Vladimir Horowz is quoted as once sayg 'There are three typ of pianists: Jewish, gay, and bad'. Wh historilly closeted homosexuals, one n often terpret a stra of personal tratn or secret passn their work.