Postmortem Outings
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Noting in obituaries that someone who’d hidden their sexuality when alive was gay or bisexual is becoming a hot topic among obit writers and journalists.
After decades of employing code words such as “lifelong bachelor” or passing off as “pneumonia” as the cause of death for someone with HIV/AIDS, newspapers increasingly insist that their obits include the full truth about their subjects.
Bring ‘Out’ Your Dead? Gay Journos Mull Obit Complexities
