Why is Basquiat’s bisexuality so constantly ignored or suppressed?
The Guardian interviewed a number of friends on the eve of a big retrospective in London and only ex-lover Suzanne Mallouk mentions it.
Jean’s bisexuality wasn’t peripheral to who he was; it was central.
No mention here about City-as-School, where I met him, which was, and probably still is, a wonderful, nurturing unique alternative-education environment.