Contents:
- ED WEEKS MARRIED, WIFE, PARTNER, GAY, FAY, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
- NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
- A PORTRA OF ED KOCH’S SECRET GAY LIFE
- HERE’S HOW ED WTWICK’S GAY RUMORS STARTED
ED WEEKS MARRIED, WIFE, PARTNER, GAY, FAY, HEIGHT, NET WORTH
Bis that, Weeks’s private relatnship stat often rais speculatn that he might be a gay which is proved false due to the prence of the female partner his life. 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.
NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
“I don’t happen to be homosexual, ” he told a rad statn.
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.
A PORTRA OF ED KOCH’S SECRET GAY LIFE
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.
HERE’S HOW ED WTWICK’S GAY RUMORS STARTED
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