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Former New York Mayor Ed Koch flatters himself to think people care about his sex life. Mr Mayor, it’s your identity we care about — and the shame you radiate in not coming out at 84.
From today’s NYT pre-obit:
(For the record, Mr. Koch, a lifelong bachelor, declines to say whether he is gay. “I do not want to add to the acceptability of asking every candidate, ‘Are you straight or gay or lesbian?’ and make it a legitimate question, so I don’t submit to that question. I don’t care if people think I’m gay because I don’t answer it. I’m flattered that at 84 people are interested in my sex life — and, it’s quite limited.”)
Let’s hope some gay wheelchair-bound kid in Minnesota doesn’t read this article and think, "Since the 84-year-old former Mayor of the greatest city in the world is too ashamed to come out, I guess my parents are right: I must be a sick pervert."
Way to go, Mr Mayor — you gotta give ‘em shame, just like Harvey Milk never said.
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And on the opposite end of the spectrum after buying my “legalize Gay, repeal prop 8″ t-shirt from American Apparel yesterday, I got a phone call from a high school junior wanting to come film the Marriage Equality Silicon Valley group as her social justice project. Oh, sorry for the long sentence. But, this high junior understood it perfectly what just happened in California. She is teaching her peers about the inequality they must now fight. Everyone take one step to the right to make the circle bigger and better.
Hey there, mwt, how you doin’?
Make that one step to the left.
Of all people. why do you care about him?
In a front page article in the New York Times today, he denies his own identity. I care for the reason I described in the post: his shame, if contagious, could infect a person newly discovering his identity. It’s wrong to do that, and especially wrong for someone to whom the world has been as kind as ours has to Koch.
He has a responsibility. He shirked it.