10at10 Club
Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Gazoo on June 01, 2010, 11:14:02 AM
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Allen Ginsberg's longtime partner, himself a poet, of lung cancer, in Vermont, at 76:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/05/peter-orlovsky-poet-and-partner-to-allen-ginsberg-has-died.html
Orlovsky was predominantly heterosexual, from various accounts I've read, yet his partnership with Ginsberg lasted 30 years. It's good to be reminded that sometimes love takes unexpected forms.