When The New York Times Came Out of the Closet

By artappraiser on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 3:39pm |

By Charles Kaiser, New York Review of Books Blog, September 25, 2012

If you were born after 1970, I think it is nearly impossible to imagine how it felt to open up The New York Times Magazine on a Sunday morning in January 1971 to discover “What it Means to be a Homosexual,” a deeply personal and beautifully written piece in defense of homosexuality.

Nothing like this had ever been printed in a newspaper like the Times before. I was a junior at Columbia University in the City of New York when the novelist and journalist Merle Miller’s piece appeared, and I had undoubtedly purchased the Sunday Times at a newsstand on Saturday night. But I’m sure I didn’t share my fascination with his article with any of my classmates on Sunday morning [....]

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http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/sep/25/when-new-york-times-came-out-closet/