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. “I don’t happen to be homosexual, ” he told a rad statn.
NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
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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A PORTRA OF ED KOCH’S SECRET GAY LIFE
AdvertisementSKIP Manng/The New York TimTo the Edor:Re “The Secrets Ed Koch Carried” (ont page, May 8):I read about former Mayor Ed Koch’s closeted state of md wh a mixture of anger and a gay psychiatrist who, the 1980s, watched patients, iends and lleagu get sick and die om AIDS, I felt anger about the closeted mayor who refed to advote forcefully enough for I also felt sadns as a psychoanalyst who has observed, studied and wrten about the psychology of beg the closet. However, the associatn his md, and the md of many others, that AIDS is primarily a gay disease (which is not) rulted his admistratn’s aquate rpons, wh tragic rults for many New DrcherNew YorkThe wrer is a clil profsor of psychiatry at Columbia Universy and a past print of the Group for the Advancement of the Edor:To what purpose was this exposé?
HERE’S HOW ED WTWICK’S GAY RUMORS STARTED
Koch eply missed the mark as a gay man power who didn’t do everythg he uld have durg the AIDS yet, look at what he longed for most the twilight of his life: a pann and chance to be fully realized as a gay man, albe not fet that everythg is ntext before we go ahead wh renamg the Ed Koch Bridge. Can’t Stop Sayg ‘Gay’” (The Argument,, April 27):In more than 30 stat, anti-L. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 22 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Portra of Ed Koch’s Secret Gay Life.
The Tim ran a story over the weekend that had only one pot: Ed Koch was gay. And gay activists nounced some of the preventative mov ma, such as the closg of bathho, as discrimatory. Whatever homophobia Ed Koch faced, whatever privacy he craved, do not matter.