Bishop Paul Moore’s hidden bisexuality revealed by daughter
”Doesn’t it matter, even when someone is dead, that his most fervently held private life, and the unnecessary explicit details of his marriage, are exposed against his wishes? We believe that it does matter, and that both our parents’ good legacies have been damaged.”
Portion of a letter from three children of the late Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore. Another of Bishop Moore’s daughters, Honour Moore, has written a book, ”The Bishop’s Daughter,” that discusses her famous father’s life, his civil rights work, their family, and his previously undiscussed sex life with men, including one ”close friend,” Andrew, who she met after her father passed away. An portion of Honour Moore’s work was published in The New Yorker in March. (Courant.com)
”As a man of his time and place and class and education, he made a choice that a lot of people made, which was to keep that part of his life secret and to do the work in the world and the church that he wanted to do…. My mother never told anyone else what she knew about my father,” Honor Moore said. “That was an incredible gift to him.”
Honour Moore discussing the secret bisexuality of her father, Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore, and her new book, ”The Bishop’s Daughter.” (Courant.com)
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