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Manchester bombing victim Martyn Hett ‘to exit like a diva’ in ‘fabulous’ funeral
Friday's ceremony in Stockport is expected to be attended by hundreds.
Manchester bombing victim Martyn Hett will “exit like a diva” in “fabulous” funeral on Friday (June 30) which is expected to be attended by hundreds.
The PR manager and social media personality, 29, was one of 22 people who died when Salman Abedi detonated a suicide bomb at an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena on 22 May.
Martyn’s funeral is set to take place at Stockport Town Hall at 12:30...
Hospital in Egypt pulls British gay man’s life support and are refusing to send...
Exclusive: Mother is fighting to get her gay son's body back home
A hospital in Egypt turned off a British gay man’s life support and are refusing to send back his body to the family.
Adrian Nicholas King, a 39-year-old originally from Stafford, went on holiday to Cairo, Egypt with a female friend on 9 May.
During a safari trip, his kidneys are believed to have failed and he entered into a coma.
Elaine Gilbert, King’s mother, told Gay Star News there was...
Ariana Grande Offers to Pay for Manchester Bombing Victims’ Funerals
The singer has also suspended her tour in the wake of the attack.
Ariana Grande has reportedly reached out to the victims of Monday night’s bombing outside of her concert in Manchester and offered to pay for their funerals, according to the Daily Record.
It was also confirmed by TMZ that the star, who tweeted she was “broken” after the attacks, has suspended the European leg of her Dangerous Woman World Tour for at least two weeks. Grande’s shows in...
Mississippi Funeral Home Sued After Refusing To Transport And Cremate Gay Man’s Body
A Mississippi funeral home is accused of refusing to transport and cremate a gay man’s body.
Widower Jack Zawadski, 82, lost his partner of 52 years and yet he says his suffering didn’t end there. He claims a funeral home in Picayune, Mississippi refused him service.
“I felt as if all the air had been knocked out of me,’ said Zawadski, who has since filed a discrimination lawsuit against Picayune Funeral Home. Zawadski and his partner, Robert Huskey, had lived in...
Boy George to cover funeral expenses for Pete Burns’ family
Boy George has reportedly offered to help Pete Burns’ family and pay for the cost of the former singer’s funeral.
The singer’s ex wife, Lynne Corlett, and husband Michael Simpson were left with the cost but Boy George has stepped up to help Burns’ loved ones.
The Dead Or Alive singer died of cardiac arrest age 57 early last week.
When his death was announced, Boy George wrote on Twitter: “He was one of our great true eccentrics and such a big...
