The instant beatification of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch has a lot of folks itching to do some grave-dancing. Leftists will denounce Koch because he was one of the original neoliberal mayors, ushering in a regime of gentrification and finance-driven inequality that defines the city to this day. Minorities regard him with suspicion because he marginalized the city?s black and Hispanic leadership and inflamed racial fault lines to corner the white vote, presaging the Sister Souljah moments that would come to afflict the national Democratic Party.
"There is a special place reserved for Koch in gay hell ? because he was mayor during the onset of the AIDS epidemic, which he is widely seen as failing to do enough about, and because it?s commonly assumed that Koch was a closeted gay man."
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