Obituaries usually mention who the deceased is survived by. With Susan Sontag, no one is mentioned. I guess she was a lesbian.
They eat their young.
She was, and methinks that her galpal, widow is Wendy Wasstertsein. Corrections, please.
BINGO!
However, if you follow the link to The Washington Times, you will find it includes this:
At age 17, she married social psychologist Philip Rieff, then 28, just 10 days after meeting him at the University of Chicago. The couple had a son, David, born in 1952, but divorced in the 1960s. In later years, she described her lesbian relationship with photographer Annie Leibowitz as "an open secret."
From today's Ben Widdicombe column in the NY Daily News:
Sapphic cop
Don't look for gay ladies in the Gray Lady.
The New York Times paid tribute to the late Susan Sontag yesterday with a beautifully written obituary, plus a moving tribute by Charles McGrath, totaling almost 4,000 words. But apparently that wasn't enough space to mention that she was the partner of celebrity portraitist Annie Leibovitz for 20 years.
A Times rep told me: "Our extensive reporting in recent weeks did not substantiate the widespread reports of any relationship of Miss Sontag and Miss Leibovitz beyond friendship. We should probably have mentioned the friendship, but nothing further was warranted by the facts we could gather."
The paper did note that Sontag was once "photographed by Annie Leibovitz for an Absolut Vodka ad."
Which has to be the best euphemism for "lesbian" I've ever heard.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/266712p-228497c.html