He was gay! He would have even told you that! His daughter, in her scathing memoir about him, certainly would have brought it up! But all the mainstream-press obits carefully omit that fact, only deigning to bring up Van’s Hollywood marriage to a woman. Please! The man toured in La Cage aux Folles! And as a reader points out, “He even died in Nyack, a stone’s throw from Rosie O’Donnell‘s house!”