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LET'S NOT ASSIGN GAY ARTISTS TO THE OBUARY CLOSET
All three of Rschenberg’s former lovers appear promently Among Friends, as well as other gay patrts like Cunngham and Cage.
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RSCHENBERG WAS GAY? HOW WAS ANYONE TO KNOW?
A relative of his phoned the obuari sk and plaed that I'd mentned he was gay.
It would have been a strange omissn a profile of someone who'd been the biggt-sellg thor for Gay Men's Prs and had jt died of an Aids-related illns, but she seemgly thought his sexualy should be kept the Stat a rage is currently simmerg over how newspapers have alt wh the ath of the artist Robert Rschenberg.