 When asked what he actually did for a living, he responded that he sold room air conditioners for the Republic Water Heater Company.Gorman and his wife cared for his fellow "The Boys in the Band" cast member Robert La Tourneaux in the last few months of his battle against AIDS, until La Tourneaux's death on June 3, 1986.Gorman died of leukemia in 2002, aged 65, although his final film, "Kill the Poor", was not released until 2006.