Maurice Sendak, 80, Officially Comes Out of the Closet

Here’s a little nugget slipped into today’s NYT‘s interview with Maurice Sendak, who is celebrating his 80th birthday this Monday at a Gala at the 92nd St Y: he’s gay!

His fascination with the [Lindberg] kidnapping, like many of the other details of his life, has been repeated endlessly over the years in the hundreds of interviews he has given. Was there anything he had never been asked? He paused for a few moments and answered, “Well, that I’m gay.”