Tag: obit
Did we ever tell you how much we really loved you Lily?
It has just been announced that the Britsh Award-Winning Talk Show host Paul O’Grady has died unexpectedly at the age of 67. Since 2004 O’Grady has been a major presence in mainstream TV with his different shows getting record ratings. However despite all his wonderful success, to Queerguru, and most of the British LGBTQ…
The multi-talented Kit Hesketh-Harvey….. one half of the cabaret duo Kit and The Widow …has died suddenly at 65
Kit Hesketh-Harvey, the multi-talented British composer, and performer who once was one-half of the fabulous cabaret act Kit and The Widow has died suddenly aged 65. He wrote the screenplay for the 1987 Merchant Ivory gay classic film Maurice, which starred a young Hugh Grant, and also worked on BBC shows, including the hit…
SYLVIA SIMS who starred in ViCTIM in 1961 the very first UK film about homosexuality has died aged 89
The veteran British actress Sylvia Sims has died aged 89, and whilst ‘younger fands’ will remember her playing the Queen Mother opposite Dame Helen Mirren in the 2006 film The Queen, she will always be in Queerguru’s heart and mind for her performance in The Victim in 1961 This British neo noir suspense was a…
Gay Rugby Player, LGBTQ activist and former bobsledder SIMON DUNN dies aged 35
It’s sad enough whenever there is a ‘death’ in our LGBTQ community but it’s particularly wretched when one is taken way before their time. It has just been announced that Simon Dunn, the Australian rugby player, activist, and former bobsledder has passed away at age 35. Dunn was the first openly gay man to…
GIna Lollobrigida fabulous Italian movie star from the golden age of Hollywood dies
Gina Lollobrigida, the fabulous Italian movie actress who became one of the post-World War II era’s first major European sex symbols, died on Monday in Rome. She was 95. In the 1950’s Lollobrigida emerged as the face of la dolce vita, a siren beckoning Romans to once again indulge, celebrate and embrace. Ms. Lollobrigida…
