Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27169642-20151106193552/@comment-995426-20151116064235

Well, also remember that Steranko was in the KGB. That may complicate his backstory. There was that Soviet dogma that being gay was a corrupt capitalist import...but then the KGB wasn't exactly known for its high regard for principles either (being the secretive agency doing all the dirty work and all), so...who knows. It may have ultimately been that Steranko's usefulness to the KGB outweighed anything that deemed him ideologically impure. But I also think it's likely Steranko tried to stay closeted for at least a good part of his life.