Leonard Bernstein — The Closeted Love Life of Music Genius

Bernstein was a gay married to a woman

Peter Preskar
Short History
Published in
6 min readMar 28, 2024

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Leonard Bernstein was a famous American conductor
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Leonard Bernstein (1919-1990) was a larger-than-life musician in American history. He was a wonderboy of the American classical music scene.

In 1943, at the age of 25, he substituted for an ailing conductor at the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall without a rehearsal. By…

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