Tag: Roman Blank

"I told them the whole tragedy of my life." Roman Blank has two children, five grandchildren, one great-grandchild, a wife of 67 years, and one very big secret—he’s been in the closet for the past 90 years. Last year, at the age of 95, Blank revealed that he was gay for the first time, despite saying he knew about his sexual orientation since the age of five. “I just told them plain that I was born—and that I was all my life—gay,”...