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Sexuality and relationships

Sontag became aware of her bisexuality during her early teens. At 15, she wrote in her diary, "I feel I have lesbian tendencies (how reluctantly I write this)." At 16, she had a sexual encounter with a woman: "Perhaps I was drunk, after all, because it was so beautiful when H began making love to me... It had been 4:00 before we had gotten to bed... I became fully conscious that I desired her, she knew it, too."[33][34]

Sontag lived with 'H', the writer and model Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, whom she first met at U. C. Berkeley from 1958 to 1959. Later, Sontag was the partner of María Irene Fornés, a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director. Upon splitting with Fornés, she was involved with an Italian aristocrat, Carlotta Del Pezzo, and the German academic Eva Kollisch.[35] Sontag was romantically involved with the American artists Jasper Johns and Paul Thek.[36][37] During the early 1970s, she lived with Nicole Stéphane, a Rothschild banking heiress turned movie actress,[38] and, later, the choreographer Lucinda Childs.[39] Sontag also had a relationship with the writer Joseph Brodsky, who deepened her appreciation of the anti-communism of the writers persecuted by the Soviet regime, whom she had read and in some cases even known, without really understanding them.[40]

With photographer Annie Leibovitz, Sontag maintained a close romantic relationship stretching from the later 1980s until her final years.[41] Sontag and Leibovitz met in 1989, when both had already established notability in their careers. Leibovitz has suggested that Sontag mentored her and constructively criticized her work. During Sontag's lifetime, neither woman publicly disclosed whether the relationship was a friendship or romantic. Newsweek in 2006 made reference to Leibovitz's decade-plus relationship with Sontag: "The two first met in the late '80s, when Leibovitz photographed her for a book jacket. They never lived together, though they each had an apartment within view of the other's."[42]
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Сьюзен Зонтаг[a] (англ. Susan Sontag, настоящая фамилия — Розенблатт; 16 января 1933, Нью-Йорк — 28 декабря 2004, Нью-Йорк)
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