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Carmen Xtravaganza, Paris Is Burning Star and Ballroom Icon, Dies at 62
Ballroom legend and trans activist Carmen Xtravaganza has died. She was 62.The news was confirmed by the House of Xtravaganza’s Instagram page on Friday. “Throughout the 1980s, Carmen reigned on the...
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Meghan Buell, Founder of Indiana Trans Organization, Dead at 58
Meghan Buell, founder of Transgender Resources, Education and Enrichment Services, or TREES, based in South Bend, Ind., has died at age 58.Buell died August 8, the executive board of TREES announced,...
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Smash Mouth's Former Lead Singer Steve Harwell Dead at 56
By Alli Rosenbloom(CNN) — Steve Harwell, the former lead singer of the rock group Smash Mouth, died Monday, his manager tells CNN.He was 56.No cause of death was shared, but Harwell had been receiving...
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Tangerine Summers, Beloved Georgia Drag Queen, Has Died
Tangerine Summers, a beloved drag performer in Macon, Ga., has died at age 63.Summers, known offstage as Ray Grissett, died last Thursday in Macon, TV station WMAZ reports. The cause of death was...
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Ken Keechl, Groundbreaking Florida Gay Politician, Dead at 60
Ken Keechl, the first out gay member of the Broward County Commission in Florida and the county’s first gay major, has died at age 60.He died last Friday of pancreatic cancer, a family member told the...
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Dumbledore Actor Michael Gambon Dead at 82
By Zahid Mahmood and Jack Guy, CNN(CNN) — Actor Michael Gambon, best known for playing Albus Dumbledore in most of the “Harry Potter” movies, has died at 82 following a “bout of pneumonia,” a...
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Trailblazing LGBTQ+ Rights Advocate, Dies at 90
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, known for her groundbreaking roles in American politics, has died at 90.News outlets like television station KGO of San Francisco and the New York Times confirmed the news...
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Dianne Feinstein Remembered by Political Leaders as a 'Titan' in the U.S. Senate
Politicians from both political parties are honoring the memory of Democratic U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, who passed away at age 90 Thursday night in her Washington, D.C. home. Feinstein...
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Remembering the Great, Gay Filmmaker Terence Davies, a Poet of Cinema
Terence Davies’s films didn’t draw huge audiences or make lots of money. But they almost always garnered glowing reviews, and they had such a beauty and a haunting quality that he was considered one...
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Suzanne Somers, ‘Three’s Company’ Actor and Business Mogul, Dies at 76
Suzanne Somers of Three’s Company and Step by Step fame has died. She was 76.The blonde actor-turned-business mogul died on Sunday, a day before her 77th birthday, her publicist R. Couri Hay confirmed...
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When the First Friend Goes
It was the Tuesday after Memorial Day in May of 2013, and I was heading to a morning meeting after a long weekend, wishing I was still on that long weekend. I had just started working with the United...
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Hank Hightower, Gay Adult Film Star, Dead at 57
Gay adult film star Hank Hightower, also known as Henry Robert Hightower, died earlier this week. He was 57.Hightower’s friend, Jeff Yarbrough, announced his death in a Facebook post.“I was jolted...
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LGBTQ+ and AIDS Activist Susan Cowell Dead at 71
Susan Cowell, a prominent LGBTQ+ activist and AIDS services pioneer in Rochester, N.Y., has died at age 71.Cowell died October 28 after a long illness, Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle newspaper...
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Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Dies at 96
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, a long-standing advocate for mental health, caregiving, and women’s rights, died at her home in Plains, Ga., on Sunday at the age of 96. She had recently entered...
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How Sandra Day O'Connor Was a Friend to LGBTQ+ People on the Supreme Court
Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died. She was 93.The retired justice died in Phoenix, Ariz., “of complications related to advanced dementia”...
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Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Andre Braugher Is Dead at 61
Andre Braugher, who won acclaim for playing the gay Captain Raymond Holt in the beloved comedy television series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has died. He was 61.His death was confirmed to Variety, CNN, and...
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Andre Braugher’s Onscreen Husband Pays Tribute to the Late Actor
The entertainment world is in mourning following the passing of Andre Braugher, the acclaimed actor renowned for his role as Captain Raymond Holt in the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Braugher died...
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Groundbreaking Transgender Psychiatrist Jeanne Hoff Dead at 85
Dr. Jeanne Hoff, a transgender psychiatrist who put her own gender transition procedure on film, has died at age 85.Hoff died of Parkinson’s disease October 26 at her home in San Francisco, but her...
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Out Fox News Journalist Matt Napolitano Is Dead at Age 33
Fox News sports journalist Matt Napolitano has died. He was 33.Napolitano's husband Ricky Whitcomb shared the heartbreaking news of Napolitano's passing in a post on X, formerly Twitter, saying that...
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Beloved Virginia Beach-area LGBTQ+ advocate killed by drunk driver, police say
A Virginia community is mourning the loss of a popular supporter of the LGBTQ+ community. Shelby "Lexus" Riddick-Walker, a cherished activist and advocate, was tragically killed in a head-on collision...
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Gay Olympian and world champ pole vaulter Shawn Barber is dead at 29
Shawn Barber, a world champion pole vaulter who came out as gay in 2017, died Wednesday at age 29.Barber died at his home in Kingwood, Texas. The stated cause of death was “medical complications,”...
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Pioneering LGBTQ+ activist Ann Maguire has died at 80
Ann Maguire, a Massachusetts activist who cohosted a gay radio show in the 1970s, advocated for LGBTQ+ rights and breast cancer research, and worked for groundbreaking political candidates, has died...
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Cecilia Gentili, trans activist, actress, and author, has died at 52
Cecelia Gentili, a New York City-based transgender activist, actress, and author, died Wednesday at age 52.Her death was announced on her Instagram page. “Our beloved Cecilia Gentili passed away this...
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Steven Ostrow, creator of NYC's legendary Continental Baths, dead at 91
Steven Ostrow, the actor and singer best known as the creator of The Continental Baths gay men’s bathhouse where Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, and other stars launched their careers, has died. The...
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Pat Logue, Lambda Legal attorney who won landmark cases, has died
Pat Logue, who as a Lambda Legal attorney who worked on groundbreaking cases involving LGBTQ+ youth, sodomy laws, and “don’t ask, don’t tell,” and later became a judge, has died.Logue died last week,...
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David Mixner, veteran LGBTQ+ activist and presidential adviser, has died at 77
Longtime LGBTQ+ activist David Mixner, who worked on Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, then famously broke with Clinton over policy on gays in the military, died Monday at age 77.His death was...
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Gay Godfather David Mixner was both pro-sex and pro-equality
Several years ago, when I first started contributing to The Advocate as a side hustle, I tried to track down David Mixner for a column I was writing, and wasn’t having much luck finding an email...
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Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, champion of 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal,...
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who helped repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” died Wednesday of complications from a fall. He was 82.Lieberman ran for vice president as Al Gore’s running mate in 2000,...
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Lesbian News publisher Ella Matthes has died at 81
Ella Matthes, the longtime publisher and editor of Lesbian News Magazine, died March 16 at a hospital in Norwalk, Calif. She was 81 years old, and the cause was a heart attack, according to a press...
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Christopher Durang, gay author of 'Sister Mary Ignatius' and other plays, has...
Christopher Durang, the gay man who wrote such acclaimed plays as Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Beyond Therapy, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, has died at age 75.Durang died...
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