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Victor Navasky The New York Times And A Key Moment In Gay History

Victor Navasky, the New York Times and a key moment in gay history

by theguardian
29 Jan 2023
in politics

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Twelve years later, the Columbia Journalism Review (not then edited by Navasky) reported what happened.

He then explained why the article was actually an abomination.

Miller did so. When his piece, What It Means To Be a Homosexual, appeared in January 1971, James Baldwin and Allen Ginsberg were two of the only openly gay writers in America. But Miller was the first ever to come out in the pages of the New York Times.