The brother of nservative polil funrs David and Charl Koch nied beg gay but was reportedly threatened when his brothers spected he was.
Contents:
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- THE SHUNNED, POSSIBLY GAY KOCH BROTHER NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Frerick Koch, whose brothers fanced right-wg and reportedly attempted to blackmail him when they spected he was gay, has died at age, who did not share his brothers' bs or polil terts but foced on llectg art and rtorg ho, died Wednday of heart failure at his home Manhattan, The New York Tim was the olst of four brothers, two of whom, Charl and David, beme famo for bankrollg nservative wh the fortune they rived om Koch Indtri, which had holdgs oil and many other bs.
"You have to remember this was a very long time ago, when the ia of beg gay was nsired sndalo a fay, particularly a fay of rough, self-ma oil men out Wicha, Kan., " she told NPR that year.
"It was nsired a dark secret that first-born son Frerick might have been gay. So that [Frerick] walked to a room, found his three other brothers stg there chairs facg him, and they nonted him and nducted an quisn to see if he was gay. "For the rerd, Frerick, who was named for his father, repeatedly nied that he was gay.
THE SHUNNED, POSSIBLY GAY KOCH BROTHER NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT
Daniel Schulman, thor of the 2014 book Sons of Wicha: How the Koch Brothers Beme Ameri's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty, scribed Frerick's homosexualy as "an open secret" among the fay and their iends. But Frerick told him, "Charl's 'homosexual blackmail' to get ntrol of my shar did not succeed for the simple reason that I am not homosexual. "Still, 's clear that most of the Koch fay did not have gay people's bt terts at heart.