Ed Flipowski, a public relations executive whose work with Gucci and other companies influenced the fashion industry, died on Jan.
10 at 58 from complications from surgery at his Manhattan home. Michel Georges Alfred Catty, known as Michou, who ran a celebrated drag cabaret for decades died at 88 from a pulmonary embolism on Jan.
26 in a hospital in Saint-Mandé, a suburb of Paris. Deborah A. Batts, the first openly LGBTQ federal court judge, died on Feb.
3 at her New York City home at 72 from knee replacement surgery complications. Terry DeCarlo, an LGBTQ activist who was director of the Center, an LGBTQ advocacy group, died at age 57 from face and neck cancer in a Hollywood, Fla.