Members of Norman Rockwell’s fay are prottg a new bgraphy of him that rais the qutn of whether he was gay or had pedophilic impuls.
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NORMAN ROCKWELL RENSIRED: THE CLOSET CASE AS GAY IN?
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As scholars, llectors and mm-goers rensir his cultural signifince and unver new layers of symbolism his work, the artist who lived Stockbridge, Massachetts, for 25 years has bee an Everyman, a hero to liberals and nservativ, blacks and wh, gays and straights, relig tradnalists and secular humanists. Deborah Solomon’s new, much-discsed bgraphy, Amerin Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (Farrar, Strss & Giroux), prents him as a latent homosexual, which has not sat well wh a few members of Rockwell's fay. His work n also be viewed as a chronicle of how homosexuals hid by necsy the Uned Stat prr to 1969 and the dawng of the gay liberatn movement.