Troy Masters, Pioneering L.G.B.T.Q. Journalist, Dies at 63
Troy Masters, a journalistic champion of L.G.B.T.Q. causes in publications that he founded, published or edited since the early 1990s — most recently The Los Angeles Blade — died on Dec.
11 in his apartment in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 63. His sister, Tammy Masters, said that his body was found in his apartment by his friend and former partner, Arturo Jiminez, whom she had asked to make a wellness check after not hearing from him for two days.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner determined that the cause was suicide. Mr. Masters’s career took him from Tennessee, where he grew up, to New York City in the 1980s.
He worked at the publications Outweek, QW, LGNY and its successor, Gay City News, before he moved west and started The Los Angeles Blade in 2017 in partnership with The Washington Blade, an L.G.B.T.Q.
