gcreptile 10,972 Posted June 7, 2022 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". 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted June 14, 2022 'Mama Gloria' Allen, a Chicago Black transgender activist and icon of the community, has died. She was 76. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-community-voices/trans-activist-mama-gloria-allen-dies-76-rcna33501 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,739 Posted June 20, 2022 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. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,527 Posted June 22, 2022 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. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,739 Posted August 12, 2022 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 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,739 Posted October 7, 2022 Alejandra González Pino, first transgender person to be elected to a political office in Chile, dead at 54 from heart failure. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,739 Posted October 23, 2022 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 () 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: 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. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,739 Posted November 8, 2022 Will Ferdy, Belgian Flamish singer and first Flemish singer to come out (1970), dead at 95 from Parkinson's complications. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,947 Posted November 18, 2022 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 () 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: 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. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,727 Posted November 18, 2022 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 () 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: DEAD 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,739 Posted November 18, 2022 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), Canadian Acadian playwright Antonine Maillet and Argentine author Ilse Fuskova (1929-2024) 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 (1930-2024), 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 (1931-2024), US Disney imagineer Bob Gurr 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 (1932-2024), lesbian personality Nancy Valverde (1932-2024) and opera singer/actor Joaquin Romaguera (1932-2023) are 90. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ladyfiona 2,585 Posted November 20, 2022 There was a shooting at a gay bar in Colorado Springs: 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,739 Posted December 1, 2022 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 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted December 12, 2022 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. ... *snip* Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wiki) dead at 96. 7 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msc 18,472 Posted December 12, 2022 46 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wiki) dead at 96. Actually picked in the Crowdsourced. Gonna be a long night replacing those two points... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lafaucheuse 4,051 Posted December 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Ulitzer95 said: Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wiki) dead at 96. Sad honestly, she was Kind of a diva. Was planning of putting her on a theme list next year Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,620 Posted December 13, 2022 20 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said: Hawaiian royal heiress Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa (wiki) dead at 96. To my astonishment, her death just got a BBC "breaking news" notification. 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,972 Posted January 6, 2023 Edwin Chiloba, LGBTQ activist from Kenya, found dead in a metal box: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64184372 7 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 8, 2023 On 06/01/2023 at 08:30, gcreptile said: Edwin Chiloba, LGBTQ activist from Kenya, found dead in a metal box: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64184372 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted January 24, 2023 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 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarkF 60 Posted January 30, 2023 All from the US, Composer John Kander of Kander and Ebb, lesbian pulp fiction author Marijane Meaker and baseball player Maybelle Blair are 95.. Marijane Meaker has gone. Marijane Meaker obituary | Fiction | The Guardian 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gooseberry Crumble 5,345 Posted February 26, 2023 Bob Silcox, a founding member of the Merseyside AIDS helpline during the initial very dark days of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, has died aged 92. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/merseyside-legend-brought-lightness-heavy-26303290 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarkF 60 Posted March 24, 2023 Worlds oldest drag queen Darcelle XV (November 16, 1930 – March 23, 2023) stage name of Walter W. Cole has died aged 92 ,Portland's famous drag queen, Walter Cole, known as Darcelle, dies | KATU 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,046 Posted April 5, 2023 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. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted April 8, 2023 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 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
