Media

September, 1990

It took a man with an angelic name, two hoop earrings and a highly developed sense of rage to create the first controversial media trend of the Nineties. When Malcolm Forbes died, Michelangelo Signorile, the features editor of a gay news magazine called OutWeek, published in New York City, wrote a cover story titled "The Secret Gay Life of Malcolm Forbes." It wasn't news, exactly. Forbes was hardly an anonymous figure in New York--any world-famous 70-year-old billionaire who haunted ga...

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