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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…
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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…
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William Hurt …. one of the very finest ‘gay for pay’ actors ….. dies aged 71
In the 1980s’ William Hurt was one of Hollywood’s sexiest and most successful stars who was nominated for Academy Award for Leading Actor three years running. In 1987, in his third attempt, he won for his remarkable performance In Kiss of The Spider Woman as Luis Molina, an effeminate homosexual in prison for…
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Goodbye Sir Antony Sher : legendary Shakespearean actor + out-proud gay man
So very sad to read of the death of Sir Antony Sher one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of his generation. Sher may have been born in South Africa to Lithuanian-Jewish parents but after he came to London to study drama at the age of 19 in 1968, the Brits claimed him as one…
