The gay historian and author David Carter has died in his apartment in New York City’s Greenwich Village, aged 67. It’s believed that his cause of death was a heart attack.
The Washington Blade reports that Carter died on 1 May, but his death was only recently announced. He rose to prominence in 2004 with his book Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution.
The book received positive reviews, and was adapted into the documentary Stonewall Uprising, which won a Peabody Award. The book