Contents:
- INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
- BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE
- THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
- GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE
INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
Those gay romanc were particularly hard on his wife, Felicia Montealegre, a Chilean actrs of Jackie Kennedy-que elegance.
“You are a homosexual and may never change, ” she wrote him the year they wed, a letter her children found after her ath.
BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE
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THE MET’S NEW MIC DIRECTOR IS THE FIRST TO BE OPENLY GAY
As a young man, he had many gay affairs, but he married Felicia Montealegre, a Chilean-born actrs, and raised a fay.
GLTER AND BE GAY: SEXUALY THE LIFE AND MIC OF LEONARD BERNSTE
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