maryportfuncity 9,989 Posted January 5, 2017 Jenny Swift - found dead in her cell. Probs better known as a transgender job than criminal - so I'm posting it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-38518833 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted February 4, 2017 Matt Redman, a co-founder of one of the nation’s oldest AIDS service organizations and an early voice of activism in Los Angeles when the disease was first stoking fear and prejudice in America, has died. He was 67. Redman and three others launched what would become AIDS Project Los Angeles in 1982 after attending an emergency meeting about something then known as Gay Related Immunodeficiency Disease, an early name for AIDS. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,213 Posted March 19, 2017 David D'Amato, subject of the critically acclaimed (Sundance Festival, Oscars long list) New Zealand documentary Tickled, dead at 55: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2017/03/david-d-amato-subject-of-tickled-has-died.html He supposedly tricked (?) young men into making fetish tickling videos. The documentary aimed to show Mr. D'Amato, not as a monster, but as a person. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,939 Posted March 23, 2017 George Weinberg, psychotherapist who coined the term 'homophobia', dead aged 86, cancer. Apparently he got on to thinking about the subject when asked to disinvite a lesbian friend from a dinner party. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Dead Cow 620 Posted March 31, 2017 Gilbert Baker, the artist who designed the Rainbow Flag, has died aged 65. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,213 Posted June 11, 2017 Brooke Verity Cochran, at one point the world's most famous surrogate mom for carrying the quadruples of a gay couple, dead from drug abuse at 37: https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/ms-surrogate-mother-of-2002-passes-away-at-37/12339 Read the story if you want to find out how sometimes everything turns into shit. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted June 12, 2017 On 6/11/2017 at 07:45, gcreptile said: Brooke Verity Cochran, at one point the world's most famous surrogate mom for carrying the quadruples of a gay couple, dead from drug abuse at 37: https://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/ms-surrogate-mother-of-2002-passes-away-at-37/12339 Read the story if you want to find out how sometimes everything turns into shit. Read it? I'm LIVING it. SC 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 778 Posted June 30, 2017 Chuck Renslow, known for establishing many landmarks of late-20th-century gay male culture, especially in the Chicago area, died aged 87. http://chicago.gopride.com/news/article.cfm/articleid/87082929 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,016 Posted July 13, 2017 Unsurprisingly, Rayya Elias' slightly optimistic plans to perform a one-woman show called Death Love Life later this month have been cancelled, because she "cannot perform at the level she'd like". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,565 Posted July 13, 2017 32 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: Unsurprisingly, Rayya Elias' slightly optimistic plans to perform a one-woman show called Death Love Life later this month have been cancelled, because she "cannot perform at the level she'd like". I would have thought she could still have performed the first third of that show - possibly at a near perfect level! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,213 Posted July 17, 2017 Beth Ditto hospitalised for unknown reasons, though probably nothing life-threatening... yet: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/beth-ditto-postpones-new-york-show-after-hospitalisation-hollywood-news/18428187 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 12, 2017 Rip Naquin, whose same-sex domestic partnership was the first in New Orleans when it was registered in 1993, died Tuesday at Chateau de Notre Dame nursing home of kidney failure. He was 63. Naquin published Ambush, a biweekly magazine for the city's LGBT community, with his partner, who was born Martin Greeson but is known as Marsha Naquin-Delain. They were two of the five grand marshals of Southern Decadence, New Orleans' largest gay street fair, in 2015. New Orleans was the 29th U.S. municipality to create a registry of domestic partners, and Naquin and Delain were the first in line when the rolls opened at City Hall on Sept. 3, 1993. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,898 Posted August 12, 2017 On 7/17/2017 at 06:03, gcreptile said: Beth Ditto hospitalised for unknown reasons, though probably nothing life-threatening... yet: http://www.mid-day.com/articles/beth-ditto-postpones-new-york-show-after-hospitalisation-hollywood-news/18428187 Hope she isn't going around eating ham sandwiches like Mama Cass did Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,213 Posted August 18, 2017 Holly Boswell, creator of the transgender symbol, dead at 66: http://www.newnownext.com/holly-boswell-creator-of-transgender-symbol-obituary/08/2017/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,800 Posted August 18, 2017 1 hour ago, gcreptile said: Holly Boswell, creator of the transgender symbol, dead at 66: http://www.newnownext.com/holly-boswell-creator-of-transgender-symbol-obituary/08/2017/ I didn't even know there was such a thing. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 18, 2017 7 minutes ago, Toast said: I didn't even know there was such a thing. That's amazing...I had you pegged as a tranny, Toast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toast 14,800 Posted August 18, 2017 7 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: That's amazing...I had you pegged as a tranny, Toast. In my day 'tranny' meant a cross-dresser. Funnily enough I saw a bloke wearing a dress in Sainsburys the other day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,213 Posted August 18, 2017 57 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: That's amazing...I had you pegged as a tranny, Toast. And who knows, maybe Toast is pegging other people just as well. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted August 19, 2017 19 hours ago, Toast said: In my day 'tranny' meant a cross-dresser. Funnily enough I saw a bloke wearing a dress in Sainsburys the other day. In my day tranny was something involving a vehicle. If you took the time to fix your own tranny and save $1500 (U.S. dollars), you would definitely feel gay the rest of the day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theoldlady 1,984 Posted September 9, 2017 Reports from Chechyna that known homosexuals are being rounded up and tortured. Their president wants Chechyna to be cleared of all homosexuals. (No mention about Lesbians in the news report I heard today on Norwegian TV news though.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 778 Posted September 11, 2017 DJ Bubbles, transgender activist, was shot and killed in San Francisco. https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=39945 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 475 Posted September 12, 2017 Edith Windsor, lead plaintiff in United States v. Windsor, the case the upturned section 3 of the DOMA (which specified that the term "spouse" only applied to marriages between a man and a woman, even if the couple was legally married in a state that allowed same-sex marriages), has died aged 88. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/12/us/edith-windsor-dead-same-sex-marriage-doma.html?mcubz=0&_r=0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,011 Posted October 20, 2017 19 hours ago, ObakeFilter said: Damn. I don't need to hear news like this. Huge Throbbing Gristle fan in the day, and of course Psychic TV. Get well, dammit SC (EDIT: What the hell is this doing in the Rainbow thread?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ObakeFilter 778 Posted October 20, 2017 1 hour ago, Sir Creep said: Damn. I don't need to hear news like this. Huge Throbbing Gristle fan in the day, and of course Psychic TV. Get well, dammit SC (EDIT: What the hell is this doing in the Rainbow thread?) Is there a thread for industrial music? I thought about putting it in the pop thread but I wouldn't consider them a pop group. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
