Contents:
- INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
- BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE
INSI LEONARD BERNSTE’S ‘SLOW CREEP TOWARD OVERT GAYNS’
Those gay romanc were particularly hard on his wife, Felicia Montealegre, a Chilean actrs of Jackie Kennedy-que elegance. “You are a homosexual and may never change, ” she wrote him the year they wed, a letter her children found after her ath.
Gradually, his libido revered — and wh gto, as he began what his dghter lls a “slow creep toward overt gayns.
At the time of their marriage, she wrote to him, “You are a homosexual and may never change—you don’t adm to the possibily of a double life, but if your peace of md, your health, your whole nervo system pends on a certa sexual pattern, what n you do? He was mostly gay and totally out all he did.
BERNSTE LETTERS - GIFTED, GAY AND LOVED BY HIS WIFE
LONDON (Rters) - It may be one of the sadst but most lovg letters wrten by a woman to a man - Chilean actrs Felicia Montealegre tellg her future hband, nductor and poser Leonard Bernste, she knows he is homosexual but wants to marry him letter, which Montealegre says “you are a homosexual and you may never change”, is among hundreds a recent volume “The Letters of Leonard Bernste” eded by English mic scholar Nigel Simeone, who prevly wrote a book about Bernste’s famed Broadway mil “Wt Si Story” the volume of letters, 650 of them a book of almost that many pag, Simeone said he had sifted through some 10, 000 the U.
“Send: you are a homosexual and may never change - you don’t adm to the possibily of a double life, but if your peace of md, your health, your whole nervo system pend on a certa sexual pattern, what n you do? Bernste, acrdg to his Wt Si Story llaborator Arthur Lrents, was “a gay man who got married. He was jt gay.