Salon.com > Koch http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ed Koch’s enduring, uneasy gay legacy http://www.salon.com/2013/02/01/ed_kochs_enduring_uneasy_gay_legacy/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/01/ed_kochs_enduring_uneasy_gay_legacy/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:27:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13188002 He was the larger-than-life mayor of New York through some of the most colorful and changeable years of the city's history. Ed Koch, who died early Friday morning at 88, presided over the Big Apple through the era of the Central Park jogger, Bernhard Goetz, Black Friday and gentrification. He was the mayor of punks and club kids and debutantes, of the Gordon Geckos and the young Madonnas. He was, most of all, the mayor during the AIDS crisis. And as much as he is remembered for all the things he did, he'll go down in history for all the things he didn't do, at the moment action was needed most – and for the lingering questions of why.

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