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OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT
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.
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.