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Published on: 5/30/2001
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Most surreal were all of the discreetly gay types who attended the wedding reception at Von Furstenberg's home going with the program, as if they were all back in the 1950s -- author Fran Lebowitz, Calvin Klein, Vogue editor at large Andre Leon Tally and others.
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Tally called the wedding "romantic," while Klein said it was "about time."
Unlike the wire reports, the Times at least went to great pains to imply as much as possible about the odd event without breaking its rule: A double standard that assumes a public figure is heterosexual unless the individual has explicitly stated that he or she is gay.The Times thus reported that for Diller and Von Furstenberg, who have known one another for 26 years, the wedding came "after years of speculation of about a relationship widely assumed to be platonic," and that "friends professed surprise."The article noted that the couple will keep their separate homes, and the headline of the article -- :For Diller and Von Furstenberg, a Merger -- made it seem that this was more a business arrangement than anything else.
Of course, there is always the possibility that Diller is bisexual.People do have complicated, intimate relationships, no matter their genders, sexual orientations or whether they have sex with one another or not.But why not discuss those complexities and at the very least raise some questions, particularly since Diller's sexual orientation has been widely discussed previously in the media?
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