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29.05.2021 / 21:19

White Party Founder Jeffrey Sanker Has Died

according to the Los Angeles Blade. Sanker was 65.A prominent resident of West Hollywood, Sanker passed away at nearby Cedars-Sinai Hospital while surrounded by family members.As the owner of White Party Entertainment, Sanker produced the nation's largest gay dance music festival — White Party Palm Springs.

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27.05.2021 / 22:09

Black D.C. Trans Activist Nona Conner Has Died at Age 37

died in Washington, D.C., May 13. No cause of death has been released, but no foul play is suspected, The Washington Post reports.Conner was a program manager for Collective Action for Safe Spaces, where she worked to make a safer world for Black trans women and sex workers.

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06.05.2021 / 01:45

James Williams, American Gay Activist Working in India, Dies of COVID

The New York Times reports. He had tested positive for the virus four days earlier.The Alabama-born Williams became a personal assistant to writer Daphne Merkin after he graduated from Columbia University in 2008, and he traveled around the world with her.

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04.05.2021 / 03:47

Victor Garber on His Co-Star (and Gay Icon) Olympia Dukakis

Moonstruck.I had heard of neither the film or the actress, but I do remember being impressed with the fact that Governor Dukakis had a cousin who won an Oscar, which compensated, in my mind, for his small stature.

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15.03.2021 / 21:17

The Complicated Rules for Speaking Ill of the Dead

The Washington Post tweeted out a reminder that Kobe was under investigation at one point for sexual assault and settled with the accuser out of court, she got death threats and was suspended for her job. Yes, Kobe was a brilliant inspiration to many and supported women’s sports, but he was also an accused rapist.

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26.02.2021 / 01:03

Pioneering Lesbian and Feminist Activist Ivy Bottini Has Died at 94

Weho Times.“I am sad to report that LGBTQ and feminist icon Ivy Bottini passed away this morning. She passed peacefully at home surrounded by her daughters with her minister beside her reading the latest news in LGBTQ rights,” newly elected West Hollywood City Councilperson Sepi Shyne announced on Twitter.

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18.02.2021 / 01:33

Why Should I Say Anything Nice About Dead Rush Limbaugh?

Rush Limbaugh died, and it’s so easy to pile on. There is probably not one single person, over the course of my life, who I detested more.

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17.02.2021 / 22:09

Hateful Homophobe Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70

The Rush Limbaugh Show was being carried on 300 stations nationwide, CNBC notes.Over the years the host, who proclaimed he had “talent on loan from God,” racked up a seemingly endless list of incendiary comments. During the 2020 election season, he mocked Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg for being gay.Democratic leaders, he claimed, had to be “saying, ‘OK, how’s this going to look, 37-year-old gay guy kissing his husband onstage next to Mr.

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16.02.2021 / 21:55

RuPaul, Other Stars Mourn Pioneering Gay Musician Ari Gold

GoldNation — before sending the following message on Valentine's Day: Gold released seven albums throughout his musical career and landed a hit on the dance charts in 2007 with the track "Where the Music Takes You." Gold's video for his 2004 song "Wave for You" was the first video by an out artist to air on Logo, according to the LGBTQ+ network.As a DJ and artist, Gold worked with superstars like Cyndi Lauper and Diana Ross; he also appeared in RuPaul's pre-Drag Race comedy film Starbooty, calling Ru a "mentor." Gold also wrote songs for musician and drag legend Kevin Aviance and modeled for Boy George's clothing line.Many on Twitter described Gold as a trailblazer, who proudly used male pronouns in his songs, featured gay affection in his

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25.01.2021 / 22:08

Remembering Alice Hoagland, Ally Mother of 9/11 Hero Mark Bingham

died in late December in California. Hoagland, 71, suffered from the endocrine disorder known as Addison's disease. Hoagland spoke to her son on the morning of September 11, 2001, shortly before he helped storm the cabin of his hijacked plane, bringing it down in a Pennsylvania field instead of the terrorists' intended target, the U.S.

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15.01.2021 / 22:48

Ken Jones, Pioneering Black Gay Activist, Dies at 70

Wednesday on Facebook."Ken Jones was a hero," Cleve Jones stated. "He survived many struggles.

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15.01.2021 / 01:03

Siegfried Fischbacher of Siegfried & Roy Dead at 81

Las Vegas Sun. The cause was pancreatic cancer.

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09.01.2021 / 05:35

Tommy Lasorda's Legacy Includes Silence Over HIV and His Gay Son

Lasorda died on Friday at the age of 93, so I began to think about my complicated relationship with him, and his vehement denial of his gay son.Garvey was a good-looking guy, but interestingly enough, I don’t recall ever having any sort of a crush on him or any of the Major League players growing up, so my interests were purely platonic. And of course, back in the '70s and early '80s, I wouldn’t admit to anything like that.

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30.12.2020 / 06:09

Pierre Cardin, Revolutionary French Fashion Designer, Dies at 98

The New York Times and other outlets. No cause of death was stated.Cardin “clothed the elite but also transformed the business of fashion, reaching the masses by affixing his name to an outpouring of merchandise ranging from off-the-rack apparel to bath towels,” the Times notes.In his personal life, he identified primarily as gay and had a long romantic relationship with André Oliver, who was his partner in design as well as life, CNBC reports.

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16.12.2020 / 02:09

LGBTQ+ Fans Pay Tribute to Broadway Legend Ann Reinking

Variety reports. “She went to sleep and never woke up,” her family said in a statement.

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13.12.2020 / 01:35

Charley Pride, country music’s first black superstar, dead at 86 from COVID-19

.His final performance was on Nov. 11, when he received the Country Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award at Nashville’s Music City Center.

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04.12.2020 / 00:25

‘First Gay Wrestling Star’ Pat Patterson Dies at 79

has passed away from cancer at the age of 79.In a statement, the WWE described Patterson as “A true trailblazer of the industry,” who “was linked to many ‘firsts’ in sports-entertainment throughout his storied career, including the first-ever Intercontinental Title reign and the creation of the Royal Rumble Match. In a career spanning six decades, the renaissance man left an indelible mark on the industry in the ring, on the microphone and behind the scenes.”Patterson started his wrestling career in 1958, came out in the early 1970s, and continued his wrestling career with World Wrestling Entertainment until 1984 when he retired from the ring.

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28.11.2020 / 13:39

Deb Price, Pioneering Columnist on LGBTQ+ Issues, Dead at 62

The Bay Area Reporter. Her wife, Joyce Murdoch, told the paper Price died of interstitial pneumonitis, an autoimmune lung disease with which she was diagnosed nine years ago.

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24.11.2020 / 20:59

Jan Morris Remembered as Gifted Writer, Transgender Trailblazer

The New York Times. He did not state the cause of death.

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14.10.2020 / 20:36

Pioneering Florida Transgender Candidate Dies of Cancer

The Advocate about running. While a long shot running in a majority Republican north-central Florida district against GOP nominee Jennifer Bradley, wife of the outgoing state senator for the district, she remained optimistic about what her candidacy could bring.Fueled by victories for trans candidates like Virginia Del.

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09.10.2020 / 01:51

Monica Roberts, Pioneering, Acclaimed TransGriot Blogger, Has Died

TransGriot, has died, according to multiple sources on social media.“It is with great sadness that the BTAC family has received notice of the passing of Monica Roberts, our sister, aunt, and friend,” the Black Trans Advocacy Coalition posted Thursday on Facebook. “We should have a well elaborated post about this, but at the moment we just need to notify the public and begin processing our grief and loss at this time.

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30.09.2020 / 22:45

'Berlin Patient' Timothy Ray Brown Dies After Being 'Cured' of HIV

living with his partner Tim Hoeffgen in Palm Springs, Calif., at the time of his death.Brown was in Berlin in 1995 when he was first diagnosed with HIV. Eleven years later, he was undergoing treatment there related to his HIV when he was also diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, requiring two bone marrow transplants.

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31.08.2020 / 23:17

Acclaimed Author, UNC Professor Randall Kenan Dies at 57

News & Observer reports Kenan also received the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2005, the state’s highest civilian award, and was made a fellow of the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2007. Kenan was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2018.Much of Kenan's work centered on Black gay life in the South as well as his experiences being raised by three women.

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16.08.2020 / 22:39

Award-Winning Gay Producer, Actor, Director Ash Christian Dead at 35

according to The Hollywood Reporter.A native of Paris, Texas, Christian operated his own successful New York-based film production company, Cranium Entertainment. Cranium and Christian recently released the acclaimed AIDS drama 1985, directed by Yen Tan and starring Cory Michael Smith and Virginia Madsen.

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31.07.2020 / 21:31

Alan Parker, Director of Fame and Evita, Dies at 76

Midnight Express, Evita, and Fame passed Friday at age 76, reports the Los Angeles Times. He had been suffering from a long illness.

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27.07.2020 / 21:15

My Love Affair With Regis Philbin

Regis Philbin, more times than I can count, for the better part of the last 25 years. Not in a loving or romantic way, so let’s get that right out of the way.

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27.07.2020 / 20:19

L.A. Drag Fixture, Hey Qween Star Lady Red Couture Has Died

Hey Qween alongside Lady Red Couture, announced the news on social media."It doesn't feel real but the beautiful light that was Lady Red is gone," he wrote. "I love you baby.

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14.07.2020 / 07:47

Naya Rivera’s Profound Queer Legacy

confirmed dead on Monday. It’s a strange feeling to mourn the loss of someone you never knew personally, but as I scrolled through my Twitter feed yesterday, it became even clearer to me how much Naya Rivera impacted the LGBTQ+ community.

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13.07.2020 / 20:27

Kelly Preston Dies of Breast Cancer at 57

Twins (1988), Jerry Maguire (1996), and For Love of the Game (1999).LGBTQ+ audiences might know Preston most for her roles in Citizen Ruth (1996), where she plays the girlfriend of Swoosie Kurtz’s lesbian pro-choice activist and spy; and Eulogy (2004), where she’s in a lesbian relationship with Famke Janssen despite her homophobic sister’s (Debra Winger) disapproval. In a twist of events, we find out later in the film that Winger’s antigay character is attracted to women.News of her death was revealed by Travolta, who took to Instagram this morning, writing:"It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer.

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25.06.2020 / 01:49

Joel Schumacher: Reluctant and Conflicted Gay Trailblazer

Joel Schumacher in 2003, when he was enthusiastically promoting his latest film, Phone Booth. I had heard that Schumacher was gay, as pretty much everyone had at that point, but I also knew that he had said it wasn't something he really wanted to discuss.

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05.06.2020 / 09:49

Larry Kramer's Loud, Proud Activism Remains Necessary

Baby Boomer and even Gen X queers remember the '80s and 90s when so many of their friends and lovers, their entire community, was devastated by AIDS. Incalculable losses of kind, talented, extraordinary people were taken away from the worldwide LGBTQ community, and much of our cultural heritage and history was lost.

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31.05.2020 / 01:03

Lou Sheldon Dies; Led Anti-LGBTQ+ Traditional Values Coalition

Lou Sheldon, one of the leading homophobes of the past few decades, has died at age 85.

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30.05.2020 / 01:53

Read Peter Staley's Brutally Honest Eulogy for Larry Kramer

Activist Peter Staley knew Larry Kramer like few did. Both men were influential members of ACT UP — Kramer being one of the group's co-founders — and Staley would go on to launch another HIV organization, TAG.

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29.05.2020 / 02:51

Larry Kramer Was Our Loudmouth LGBTQ+ Mother Teresa

The world is full of noise and noise makers. There are groups for every cause. Organizations for every -ism. Entities for every mission.

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27.05.2020 / 21:21

Leaders in Health, HIV, LGBTQ+ Rights React to Larry Kramer's Death

Right up until his death on Wednesday, Larry Kramer was a force. The founder of Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP fostered a relentless drive for accountability — from government, pharmaceutical companies, the Catholic Church — on HIV and AIDS; his confrontational tactics would change the public's perception of the disease and force progress.

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27.05.2020 / 20:31

Larry Kramer, Towering Figure of Aggressive AIDS Activism, Dead at 84

Larry Kramer, author and passionate AIDS activist, has died at age 84.

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12.05.2020 / 22:21

Aimee Stephens, Trans Plaintiff in Supreme Court Case, Dies at 59

Aimee Stephens, the Michigan transgender woman who took her discrimination case all the way to the Supreme Court, has died at age 59.

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10.05.2020 / 03:57

Roy Horn, Showman and Conservationist, Dead From COVID-19

Roy Horn, one-half of the illusionist duo Siegfried & Roy, died Friday in Las Vegas from COVID-19 complications, The New York Times reports.

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08.05.2020 / 02:55

Male Homosexuality Author Dies; Book Countered Negative Stereotypes

Richard Friedman, a psychoanalyst who countered negative ideas about homosexuality in his book Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective, has died at age 79.

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07.05.2020 / 22:55

David Carter, Historian of Stonewall, Dead at 67

David Carter, a historian who wrote what’s considered the definitive book on the Stonewall riots, has died at age 67.

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29.04.2020 / 19:17

Mel Baggs, Noted Non-Binary and Autistic Blogger, Dies at 39

Noted non-binary and autistic blogger Mel Baggs passed away April 11 in Burlington, Vt., at age 39. During their lifetime, Baggs wrote extensively about life as a person with non-verbal autism. Their eight-minute 2007 film, In My Language, later became the subject of several stories on CNN.

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16.04.2020 / 03:25

Florida Man Dies of COVID-19 After Attending Miami Beach LGBTQ Party

A third man who attended the annual Miami Beach Winter Party last month has died after testing positive for COVID-19.

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14.04.2020 / 04:29

Robby Browne, Much-Loved LGBTQ Activist and Philanthropist, Has Died

Robby Browne, a Manhattan real estate agent, philanthropist, and advocate for many LGBTQ causes, has died of COVID-19 complications.

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09.04.2020 / 22:29

Florida Transgender Icon Henrietta Robinson Dead at 79

Henrietta Robinson, one of the first transgender people to live openly in South Florida, died Friday of complications from COVID-19.

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31.03.2020 / 00:03

Lorena Borjas, Esteemed Transgender Advocate, Dies at 60

Lorena Borjas, a longtime, esteemed transgender activist in New York City, died Monday morning of COVID-19. She was 60.

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24.03.2020 / 23:31

Terrence McNally Mourned by Theater Artists and More

Theater artists and other admirers are mourning the death of the great gay playwright Terrence McNally, who died of COVID-19 complications today in Florida at age 81.

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24.03.2020 / 15:06

Astérix comic books cartoonist Albert Uderzo dies aged 92

Albert Uderzo, the cartoonist behind the famous French Astérix and Obélix comic series, has died at the age of 92.

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14.03.2020 / 05:15

Remembering My Friend Mart Crowley, the Man Behind Boys in the Band

The last time I saw Mart Crowley was that triumphant moment last June when he accepted the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play. That The Boys in the Band finally made it to Broadway with that stellar cast that included Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, and Matt Bomer brought me to tears as I watched the televised ceremonies in Los Angeles.

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