The asslt on the closets of power lated dramatilly 1990, changg the way the media and the gay movement would look at the "open secret" of many a public figure—as well as how you would look at your own closet, past or prent. It's hard to believe, this age of blogs that name livg and breathg closeted gay celebri daily (and often spire yawns), that ls than 20 years ago there was shock...
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PUBLIC GOOD--OR PRIVATE MATTERS? : ADVOT OF ‘OUTG’ GAY CELEBRI AND POWERBROKERS SAY THE PROCS IS JT A PART OFGAG EQUALY. BUT CRICS SAY ’S CROSSG THE LE BETWEEN GOSSIP AND NEWS.
* the secret gay life of malcolm forbes *
Mallm Forb: The Man Who Had Everythg So Mallm Forb turns out to have been gay.
No sooner had Ameri’s favore palist been buried on his island Fiji than he was ”outed” by a New York gay magaze; more recently Donald Tmp, one of those vengeful passag that help make his new ”tobgraphy” so ntemptible, did aga, claimg that Forb was tossed out of a Plaza Hotel bar bee he was there wh some unrage boys. It is Forb’ private life — his homosexualy, to be exact — that obss Wans.
The anecdot are numero and they leave no doubt at all that Forb was gay. (This me about bee Foster Wans, who wrote the Journal‘s ”Heard on the Street” lumn, was ught sellg advance rmatn about the lumn and sharg the profs wh his male lover; his homosexualy was revealed the urse of several long Journal articl exposg his crim. ) His treatment at the hands of his former employer was nsired an outrage the gay muny, and one might have thought that this would have sensized his brother, who also works for The Wall Street Journal.