A recent New York Tim article asks whether the fact that Ed Koch was gay and closeted kept him om rpondg to the AIDS crisis timely fashn.
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- NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
- ED KOCH DI: WAS FORMER NYC MAYOR GAY? BS MYERSON CAMPAIGN APPEARANC, RICHARD NATHAN FUELED RUMORS OF HOMOSEXUALY
- A PORTRA OF ED KOCH’S SECRET GAY LIFE
NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
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But as open as Koch uld be, my lleagu Matt Flegenheimer and Rosa Golnsohn wrote a new profile of him, he straed to nceal one aspect of his life: He was gay. It’s hard to ’s a meetg he had wh the Gay Men’s Health Crisis lears.
ED KOCH DI: WAS FORMER NYC MAYOR GAY? BS MYERSON CAMPAIGN APPEARANC, RICHARD NATHAN FUELED RUMORS OF HOMOSEXUALY
Ed Koch’s unwillgns to speak about his personal life led to mors that the former three-term New York Cy mayor was gay. * was ed koch gay *
But when they did, Leonard Bloom, who was on the board of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, told that Koch was credibly unfortable.
A PORTRA OF ED KOCH’S SECRET GAY LIFE
Even though nobody the room asked, Koch felt pelled to say to his senr team, “I am not a homosexual. Gettg outed seemed like an existential threat to belonged to maybe the last generatn of New York policians for whom beg openly gay was polilly had a mpaign nsultant who ma homophobic remarks and mand to know if the mors were te. But when gay iends of his would nudge him and then enurage him to e out later life, Koch would jt say, “I don’t want to.