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Contents:
- NEW YORK TIM FALLY ADMS FORMER MAYOR ED KOCH WAS GAY NE YEARS AFTER HIS ATH
- LGBTQ GROUPS BOYTT MAYOR ADAMS’ NYC PRI MONTH EVENT OVER ‘ANTI-GAY HIR’
- NYC MAYOR NOUNC ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW WH FLORIDA BILLBOARD MPAIGN
- THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA
- NEW YORK CY LNCH AD MPAIGN NOUNCG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
- ADAMS IS CHALLENGED OVER HIS HIRG OF 3 GAY MARRIAGE FO
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.
But when they did, Leonard Bloom, who was on the board of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, told that Koch was credibly unfortable.
LGBTQ GROUPS BOYTT MAYOR ADAMS’ NYC PRI MONTH EVENT OVER ‘ANTI-GAY HIR’
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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.
NYC MAYOR NOUNC ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW WH FLORIDA BILLBOARD MPAIGN
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As a gay man, I appreciated seeg what people like me went through for gay rights — mak me regnize what I ’s a real sadns to . And that's what this movement of "Don't Say Gay" is about. A lot of the folks around you right now last month were speakg out very forcefully agast the three hir of pastors who had ma anti-gay remarks the past.
The four New York-based LGBTQ groups – Lambda Inpennt Democrats of Brooklyn, Stonewall Democrats of NYC, Equaly New York and Lbian and Gay Democratic Club of Queens – emphasized their boytt was due to the mayor’s appotment of pastor Fernando Cabrera as senr adviser for the Office of Fah-Based and Communy Partnerships and pastor Erick Salgado as assistant missner for immigrant affairs. ” He provid ntext, toutg his work nouncg anti-gay hate crim and votg favor of bills while the cy uncil that support LGBTQ+ rights.
Ne years after his ath, The New York Tim has fally gotten around to admtg that former New York Cy Mayor Ed Koch was gay. That Koch was gay wasn’t exactly a secret.
THE MAYORS AND THE GAY PRI PARA
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Ined, Mar Cuomo, his rival the electn, nied was behd mpaign signs that read “Vote for Cuomo, not the homo. Still, at the time, Koch was a ngrsman for the Wt Village, one of the gayt districts the natn.
NEW YORK CY LNCH AD MPAIGN NOUNCG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
“I don’t happen to be homosexual, ” he told a rad statn.
His advisers saw AIDS as a gay issue and wanted to protect Koch at all sts. He surround himself wh a llectn of younger gay iends who tried to play matchmaker for him and enuraged him to e out.
ADAMS IS CHALLENGED OVER HIS HIRG OF 3 GAY MARRIAGE FO
Perhaps evably there were mors, some promoted by his enemi, that he was gay. Meantime, was wily known the media world that Koch was gay. One of Koch’s clost gay iends at the time of his ath was a former Tim reporter who would later out Koch a book 2019.