We didn’t want to live together. We didn’t have any examples of what a good love relationship between two men could be. And there was always the problem of hiding so no one would know...

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives – the life of thought, and that of reality.

We both grew up at a time when homosexuality was not even spoken about. There were certainly no books that could help a young person understand that two people of the same sex could build...

After 50 years together as a couple:”Look how fast the leaves are falling now,” Alan says. “The trees will be bare in a couple of days. Do you realize that we have watched the leaves...

About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: “After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few...

As an artist in the 1960s, Norman Sunshine was able to maintain a moderately out lifestyle. But when the first exhibition of his paintings in New York brought on a profile in The New York...

Alan, after all, was one of the very few homosexuals who had such a powerful, high profile job, and who lived openly with a man. Homophobia had its adherents and some ruthless climber up the...