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Possibility for later, unfortunately, Dr. Nas Mohamed, first openly gay Qatari, wants to be very visible during the World Cup:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/first-openly-gay-qatari-with-global-profile-counters-death-threats-with-visibility/ar-AAYatmq

 

As he says, "there's a non zero chance of death".

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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. 

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The documentary on the Gateways (groundbreaking lesbian nightclub) on BBC 4 last night had a whole heap of aging tennis fans turning up to offer their opinions, worth watching on iPlayer for form-spotting. 

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On 13/10/2009 at 05:05, Ulitzer95 said:

OK, since this thread is growing... may as well concentrate on some possibilities for 2010!

 

 

*Hugues Cuenod is still alive. He is 108 next year. His husband (or civil partner to be precise) is 41 years younger than him. F**k me! Although that might be what's keeping him feeling so young!

*British Army commando and journalist Micky Burn will be 98!

*Gay rights activist Axel Axgil is 95 next year!

*Nazi victims Karl Lange and Paul Gerhard Vogel will also turn 95!

*Playwright Arthur Laurents will turn 92.

*Singer Chavela Vargas will turn 91.

*Pierre Cardin, already on the main list, is 88 next year.

*Drag queen/WWII veteran Jose Sarria will be 87 or 88.

*Composer Ned Rorem will be 87, as will Fred Richmond and director Franco Zeffirelli.

*Phyllis Lyon, a very prominent gay rights activist in the U.S. will be 86 next year, as will poet Edward Field.

*The great Gore Vidal, gay rights activist Frank Kameny and singer Johnny Brandon will be 85.

*Ronnie Gilbert, of The Weavers and a collaborator with Pete Seeger, will be 84 next year, as will composers Lee Hoiby and Hanz Werner Henze, minister Otis Charles and Lord Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, known for his "bisexual activities".

*Underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger and poet John Ashbery will be 83.

*Composer Ruth Anderson, actor Jack Larson, legendary filmmaker James Ivory, gay rights activist John Challis, Labour Party politician Maureen Colquhoun, philanthropist Joan Chalmers and playwright Edward Albee will all turn 82 in 2010.

*Cecil Taylor, novelist Dominique Fernandez, sex educator Betty Dodson, Canadian politician Laurier LaPierre and ufologist Ted Bloecher will turn 81.

*Rabbi Lionel Blue will turn 80.

*At a push, Tab Hunter will be 79 next year and Giorgio Armani will be 76, as will Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Rip Taylor. Johnny Mathis and Larry Kramer will be a reasonable 75.

Composer, diarist, pulitzer price winner Ned Rorem, oldest living survivor from this list, as mentioned in the birthdays thread turned 99 today (:birthday:) but he still seems to be quite active and in good health. Here's a picture taken three days ago, posted in Facebook/Meta/Zuckbook/Zuckerbergia:

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Ted Bloecher doesn't have a wikipedia page anymore. As far as I know he's still alive but has been quite frail the last few years.

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On 23/10/2022 at 12:32, arghton said:

Composer, diarist, pulitzer price winner Ned Rorem, oldest living survivor from this list, as mentioned in the birthdays thread turned 99 today (:birthday:) but he still seems to be quite active and in good health. Here's a picture taken three days ago, posted in Facebook/Meta/Zuckbook/Zuckerbergia:

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Ted Bloecher doesn't have a wikipedia page anymore. As far as I know he's still alive but has been quite frail the last few years.

Ned Rorem dead at 99.

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On 23/10/2022 at 12:32, arghton said:

Composer, diarist, pulitzer price winner Ned Rorem, oldest living survivor from this list, as mentioned in the birthdays thread turned 99 today (:birthday:) but he still seems to be quite active and in good health. Here's a picture taken three days ago, posted in Facebook/Meta/Zuckbook/Zuckerbergia:

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To add some more not known of (or hadn't come out yet) when the original list was made. Born 1929 or before

 

US poet Naomi Replansky (1918-2023) is 104, her partner Eva Kollisch (1925-2023) is a "mere" 97.

Austrian-born US composer and music critic Walter Arlen (1920-2023) is 102.

US author Anita Cornwell (1923-2023) is 99.

...

Deathlistee Stanley Baxter, potential immortal and Hawaii royal Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (1926-2022) and Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight are 96, and Hollywood Golden Age actor Terry Kilburn will be this month.

...

All from the US, Composer John Kander of Kander and Ebb, lesbian pulp fiction author Marijane Meaker (1927-2022) and baseball player Maybelle Blair are 95.

...

US author Eugenia Collier and fashion designer Stan Herman are 94 and so is Chinese calligrapher Yi Ling if still alive.

...

Japanese author Yayoi Kusama, New Zealand Maori author Renée (1929-2023) and Argentine author Ilse Fuskova are 93.

 

1930 onwards there's a lot of people, might add some here later.

 

Major US painter and sculptor Jasper Johns, Spanish bisexual poet/playwright/novelist/writer Antonio Gala (1930-2023), historian/biographer/playwright/activist Martin Duberman, nuclear disarmament activist Pat Arrowsmith (1930-2023), costume designer and former partner of James Mitchell Albert Wolsky, Polish-born Canadian mystery author Eve Zaremba, US drag queen Darcelle XV (1930-2023), Argentine philosopher and writer Juan José Sebreli, dance historian George Dorris, crime novelist Vincent Lardo and death educator/lesbian activist Shatzi Weisberger (1930-2022) are 92 and Sally Singer will be in December if she's still alive.

 

Mexican-American novelist and essayist John Rechy, US author and mathematician Hubert Kennedy, Canadian drag queen Michelle DuBarry, Spanish Catalan heraldist, genealogist, author and historian Armand de Fluvià and author/activist Diana Rivers are all 91.

 

US record producer, record executive, five-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Clive Davis, actor of screen and stage, dancer and theatre director Joel Grey, fashion designer Valentino, photographer Duane Michals, Icelandic author Guðbergur Bergsson (1932-2023), lesbian pulp fiction author Ann Bannon, Dutch ballet dancer Hans van Manen, English actor and novelist Roland Curram, philanthropist Nancy Skinner Nordhoff, Argentine photographer Sara Facio, lesbian personality Nancy Valverde (1932-2024) and opera singer/actor Joaquin Romaguera (1932-2023) are 90.

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There was a shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs:

 

 

 

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On 20/06/2022 at 17:39, arghton said:

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. 

As mentioned elsewhere Shatzi Weisberger has died

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On 18/11/2022 at 15:57, arghton said:

*snip*

...

Deathlistee Stanley Baxter, potential immortal and Hawaii royal Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa and Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight are 96, and Hollywood Golden Age actor Terry Kilburn will be this month.

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*snip*


Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wikidead at 96.

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46 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wikidead at 96.

 

Actually picked in the Crowdsourced. Gonna be a long night replacing those two points...

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1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wikidead at 96.

Sad honestly, she was Kind of a diva. Was planning of putting her on a theme list next year

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20 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wikidead at 96.


To my astonishment, her death just got a BBC "breaking news" notification.

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Everett Quinton, an Obie-winning stage actor and queer theatre icon, has died. He was 70. Quinton acted in many of the plays of his partner Charles Ludlam, who passed in 1987. Quinton's television appearances included episodes of Miami Vice, Law & Order and Nurse Jackie.

 

https://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2023/01/everett-quinton-queer-theater-icon-surviving-partner-of-charles-ludlam-dies-70.html

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On 30/01/2023 at 21:05, MarkF said:

Composer John Kander of Kander and Ebb

96 year old John Kander turned up on the Stephen Colbert show last night to promote his new show with Lin Manuel Miranda.

 

Didn't see him walk on like other guests, he was already in place, but otherwise looked and sounded great.

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