...but decided not to mention him only because I didn't know if it was ever established beyond a doubt he was gay -- even though I
know he was... you know?
I did hear a few things about Michael from an exmo who said s/he knows the OsKlan -- that, yes, he most certainly was gay, that the pressure from within the family was horrendous, and that a couple of his uncles were far more
aggressively homophobic than anyone on the outside could ever imagine.
Sadly, with what I know now about the Mormon-bigotry-is-thicker-than-blood thing, I can imagine it all too well. :(
BTW, that fashion school he was going to?
One of its teachers is a H8er, as is her dentist-husband (Mormons, of course; almost all anti-gay dentists are Mormons). There, I definitely mentioned Michael.
On a side note: I never will understand how people in the arts and entertainment world can be homophobic bigots (and there are plenty of them). We're told that homophobia decreases with more exposure to LGBTs... and then I see someone like this Habermeyer woman, and I remember that some people are just unreachable.