Will Kohler, the gay activist and blogger at Back2Stonewall, died August 21 after a long series of health issues. As of August 6, he was telling people he was okay, but clearly he was not, and he stopped posting on social media a week before his passing.
Will was very supportive of myself and other gay bloggers, extremely gracious toward people he respected and wanted to encourage.
He also once was very helpful to me when a stalker tried to flip him against me just as a chaos agent; Will decided to contact me directly, for which I was so grateful.
He was, however, no pushover! He was unapologetically thorny about gay male issues — everything from excoriating gay guys living in Florida for not somehow stopping DeSantis to praising Red, White & Royal Blue while pining for the long-awaited The Front Runner adaptation.