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More about the late not-great Ed Koch's dance with death. Not his, the ten thousand people who died of AIDS on his watch without any support from their mayor or his administration.

Ed Koch and the Cost of the Closet

The Nation.

This makes the point that Koch out of the closet would never have become mayor.

True.

But since he was mayor and missed his "calling", closeted or not, Ed Koch does not deserve the accolades he has received. But that is how it works. There is political payback even after the grave and Koch still has a lot of people who owe him. Bill Clinton was one.

I don't want to tear him down either. He did that himself with his self serving bullshit for the rest of his life afterwards. Pugnacious and unwilling to admit any error.

Us gays have a special dark place in our hearts for the closet guys who tightened their door locks at the expense of other gays.

When my husband came out, he worked for the City of Boston and while he was widely accepted and applauded by most, the closet people were particularly mean and vindictive. He was a threat. As though he was going to point them out or anything.

So, as it says here, Koch deserves a corner of gay hell for his transgressions and it is all over but the burning and don't expect me to be happy about either his "feistiness" (nasty bitter old queen stuff, quite familiar) or his other accomplishments. I am an unrepentant bigot when it comes to the homo who hides.

In one of Koch's favorite phrases of his enemies, "fuck 'em".

Labels: closet, gay identity, homophobia