Somewhere Over The Rainbow

[Sir Creep 7,070]

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.

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[YoungWillz 21,049]

Report of the death of prolific US playwright, Robert Patrick, aged 85: 

Recognised as a pioneer of openly gay themes in theatre, probably best known for Kennedy's Children (which opened in The Kings Head pub theatre in Islington) and Blue Is For Boys, even winning a Best World Playwrighting award from the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre! He has written for TV also as well as poetry and novels.

 

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665914/

 

RIP.

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

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.

[The Hermit 23]

Had to be 69.

[Gisooo 3,346]

On 18/11/2022 at 16:57, arghton said:

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, 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 and opera singer/actor Joaquin Romaguera are 90.

 

American tenor and actor Joaquin Romaguera (Wiki) dead at 90

[arghton 6,739]

On 18/11/2022 at 17:57, arghton said:

..., Spanish bisexual poet/playwright/novelist/writer Antonio Gala, etc, etc ... are 92 

Antonio Gala dead at 92 after a long battle with colon cancer.

[MariNisia 4,198]

3 hours ago, arghton said:

Antonio Gala dead at 92 after a long battle with colon cancer.

 

That's really sad news.

Journalist, newspaper columnist, novelist, extraordinary playwright, poet... a great talent.

In my humble opinion, Gala was one of the best essayists of the 20th century.

Rest in Peace. 

[maryportfuncity 10,646]

Nothing - death wise - to see here but in trying to explain the term chutney ferret to someone too young to have heard it in pubs and the like I chanced upon a business of the same name that produces chutney and has a wicked line in double entendres in its about me story: 

 

 

ABOUT ME

David Hopper was born and raised in the North East of England and has been enthusiastically making preserves since he discovered what you could do to a Cumberland Ring with half a jar of piccalilli and a crusty bap

 

https://www.chutneyferretindustries.com/

[Gisooo 3,346]

On 18/11/2022 at 16:57, arghton said:

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 is a "mere" 97.

Austrian-born US composer and music critic Walter Arlen is 102.

US author Anita Cornwell is 99.

 

Anita Cornwell (Wiki) dead at 99

[MarkF 60]

A belated  happy 99th birthday for yesterday to Edward Field (born June 7, 1924) - gay American poet and author.  

[gcreptile 10,972]

Radical lesbian feminist and communist (these things seem to go hand in hand) Minnie Bruce Pratt has died at 76:

https://minniebrucepratt.net/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Bruce_Pratt

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Steve Pieters, an openly gay cleric and AIDS activist whose interview on the PTL Club gave its conservative Christian audience a differing viewpoint on homosexuality and prompted Tammy Faye Bakker to ask he be treated with compassion, has died. He was 70.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/steve-pieters-dead.html

[time 8,603]

Roger Thibault, one half of the first gay couple to civil-union in North America, has died aged 77, Parkinson's disease.

[YoungWillz 21,049]

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

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

 

 Walter Arlen is 102.

 

Composer Walter Arlen reportedly no more aged 103: 

 

[arghton 6,739]

On 18/11/2022 at 17:57, arghton said:

...Icelandic author Guðbergur Bergsson, ..etc etc etc.. are 90.

Guðbergur Bergsson, award-winning Icelandic author and 2004 recipient (and earliest living recipient at the time of his death) of "little nobel" Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, dead at 90 following a short illness.

[arghton 6,739]

On 18/11/2022 at 17:57, arghton said:

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 is a "mere" 97.

...

Eva Kollisch died two weeks ago at 98.

 

On 23/10/2022 at 13:32, arghton said:

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 (in ICU in 2020).

Video of Ted Bloecher's 94th birthday celebration from August.

[The Old Crem 3,606]

Andrew Lumsden who was one of the founders of the Gay Liberation Front and helped organise London’s first pride has died. He was 82. Obit

[YoungWillz 21,049]

Report of the death of Pandora, the "tour guide" in Steven Arnold's Luminous Procuress, counter culture film so beloved of Dali and Warhol: 

More about the movie here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/08/enigmatic-transgressive-gleefully-queer-the-1970s-cult-film-youve-never-seen

[The Old Crem 3,606]

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  

[The Old Crem 3,606]

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

[drol 11,947]

On 18/11/2022 at 16:57, arghton said:

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

 

 

Japanese author Yayoi Kusama, New Zealand Maori author Renée and Argentine author Ilse Fuskova are 93.

 

Renée dead at 94.

[gcreptile 10,972]

Matt Napolitano, up-and-coming radio voice for the Fox media network has died young:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/journalist-matt-napolitano-a-rising-gay-star-in-radio-and-sports-media-has-died/ar-AA1m3Orn

 

Apparently, his being gay was worth emphasizing in the obit.

[Sly Ronnie 884]

1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

Matt Napolitano, up-and-coming radio voice for the Fox media network has died young:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/journalist-matt-napolitano-a-rising-gay-star-in-radio-and-sports-media-has-died/ar-AA1m3Orn

 

Apparently, his being gay was worth emphasizing in the obit.

 

If it were the 50s and 60s, it wouldn't have been mentioned. In the 70s and 80s it would have been hinted at. In the 90s and 00s it would have been mentioned in passing. In the 10s and 20s it is shouted from the rooftops.

[arghton 6,739]

Ted Bloecher of Ulitzer's 2009 list died earlier this week at 94 according to this facebook post.

[Lafaucheuse 4,051]

Co-founded of AIDES, Frederic Edelmann dead at  72. The 3 co-founders are dead : Daniel Defert died last year in the 7th of february and Jean Pierre Mettetal died in 1992.