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Nancy Valverde has died: https://abc7.com/lgbtq-activist-nancy-valverde-dies-at-92-obituary/14573805/

David Benjamin Mixner, and iconic LGBTQ and AIDS activist, has died. He was 78. https://www.losangelesblade.com/2024/03/11/iconic-lgbtq-aids-activist-david-mixner-dies-at-78/

Luis Larraín, Chilean LGBT rights activist has died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at the age of 42. Obit (In Spanish).

Ociel Baena, Mexican activist for non binary and LGBT+ rights and the first non-binary magistrate in Latin American history has been found dead aged 38. The Guardian  

French advocate of LGBT rights, Jean Paul Pouliquen, who fought for the Pacte de Solidarité Civil (Pacs) in the late 90´s, which allowed two homosexuals to be legally united (before gay mariage was voted) has died at 69. Somehow Breaking News from Le Monde even though he don’t have any wiki page and only two articles about his passing are out two days after his death.

Michael Denneny, who edited and oversaw the publication of many important LGBTQ-related books, including Randy Shilts’s And the Band Played On, has died at age 80. Denneny was found dead Saturday at his home in New York City. He most likely had been dead three days, probably due to a heart attack. SC

Ada Bello, a pioneering LGBTQ activist and long-time chemist for the U.S. FDA and the University of Philadelphia, died March 31st. She was 89. https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/ada-bello-obituary-philadelphia-cuba-gay-rights-lgbtq-20230407.html

Edwin Chiloba, LGBTQ activist from Kenya, found dead in a metal box: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64184372

Jonathan Danilowitz, Israeli gay flight attendant, LGBT activist who sued an airline in 1989 for refusing to recognize his partner as his common-law spouse, dead at 77 from pancreatic cancer: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-714587

Clela Rorex, county clerk who issued the first same-sex marriage license in the US in 1975, dead at 78 from surgery complications. Mentioning Shatzi Weisberger here: 92-year-old Jewish lesbian, death educator, anti-nuclear, LGBT, BLM activist. She had a heart attack in 2020 but did not go to hospital, wanted to die alone at home. Didn't die.

Urvashi Vaid, a lawyer and civil rights activist for the LGBTQ+ community, has died at the age of 63. https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/5/14/legendary-activist-urvashi-vaid-dies-63

Uruguayan transgender politician, LGBT activist, lawyer and convicted fraudster Michelle Suárez Bértora reportedly dead at 39: https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Noticias/Fallecio-Michelle-Suarez-la-primera-senadora-trans-en-la-historia-del-Uruguay-uc819575 Quite a short life, but a very interesting one. She was Uruguay's first transgender university graduate, first transgender lawyer, first to be elected to office and first transgender senator (2014-2017) until her resignation from the senate due to being found guilty of forging documents. She also assisted in drafting the same-sex marriage legislation.

Leslie Cohen, long a fixture in the New York City LGBTQ+ community and one of four women who opened Sahara, a legendary upscale women’s club, in the 1970s, has died. http://gomag.com/article/150756-2/

James Bidgood, a gay icon and the man behind the 1971 cult film Pink Narcissus, has died. He was 88. https://worldofwonder.net/rip-pink-narcussus-creator-lgbtq-icon-james-bidgood/

Jim Toy, an LGBTQ activist and Michigan's first openly gay man, has died. He was 91. https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/01/michigans-first-openly-gay-man-prominent-ann-arbor-lgbtq-activist-dies-at-91.html

Indian lgbt rights activist and historian Saleem Kidwai has died aged 70. https://scroll.in/latest/1004159/author-queer-rights-activist-saleem-kidwai-dies-at-70

Ken Jones, who pushed for desegregation of the LGBT+ rights movement and who helped fund the original Pride flag, has died. He was 70. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/hero-lgbt-activist-ken-jones-111606790.html

Soraya Santiago, the first person to undergo gender reassignment surgery in Puerto Rico, has died at the age of 73. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/soraya-santiago-puerto-rico-lgbtq-icon-dies-73-73172831

Aimee Stephens, a Transgender woman who was at the centre of a Supreme Court case on whether LGBTQ workers are covered by federal anti-discrimination law in the U.S., has died. She was 59. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/politics/aimee-stephens-supreme-court-lgbt-workers/index.html

Phyllis Lyon has died aged 95: https://www.ebar.com/news/latest_news//290632 Along with partner Del Martin (who died in 2008), she was one half of the first same-sex couple to get married in San Fran in 2004, which was voided when the California Supreme Court voided the law allowing same-sex couples to get married in San Fran later on in the same year. They were married again (once again being the first to do so) in San Fran in June 2008 when same-sex marriages were again legalised in California in that year. Del Martin died 2 months later due to complications from an arm-bone fracture. In the middle of being LGBTQ activists who were founding members of the Daughters of Bilitis, the first national lesbian organization in the United States, in 1955, they also found time to be senior activists, advocating for older people, from 1989. They were also named delegates to the White House Conference on Aging, Martin by Dianne Feinstein and Lyon by Nancy Pelosi, in 1995. Rosie O'Donnell played Martin and Maddie Corman played Lyon in the miniseries When We Rise. (Yes, this was long - but they did a lot of stuff, and I felt at least some of that deserved to be mentioned here)

Psychiatrist Robert P. Cabaj, a gay Bay Area man known for his role in advancing LGBT mental health through writing, teaching, and advocacy, died suddenly February 24 after a brief hospitalization. He was 72. Dr. Cabaj moved to San Francisco in 1991 from Boston, where he graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1974 and completed his residency at the Cambridge Hospital program. For eight years, Dr. Cabaj was director of behavioral health in San Francisco. SC

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-justin-flippen-wilton-manors-mayor-dies-20200226-rv5xunictrfcpmjgh5ctl5xag4-story.html The Mayor of Wilton Manors in the US state of Florida Justin Flippen , has died suddenly aged 41. He was the first openly gay president of the student body in Florida and the President of the predominantly lgbt Dolphin democrats body.

American gay porn director and blogger on LGBT related stuff John Tegan has died. I didn't post this in the porn star thread as he was a director. However don't ask me how I happened to stumble across obscure gay porn related news.......

Rose Greene, an LGBTQ activist and who helped develop the inaugural California AIDS ride in 1994, has died. She was 72. https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-rose-greene-lgbtq-dead-20190715-story.html

LGBT activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy had a stroke 3 days ago: https://www.out.com/news/2019/7/06/trans-activist-miss-major-hospitalized-after-suffering-stroke A trans black activist from the Stonewall days, so surprisingly obitable.