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Billy Bean : the MLB player who had big enough balls to come out as gay and then become an activist : has died aged 60
Sad news today about the death of the iconic Billy Bean, one of Major League Baseball’s first openly gay former players and who became such a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ equality in sports. 60 year old Bean died earlier this week after a year long battle with acute myeloid leukemia “Our hearts are…
A flamboyant Canvey Island boy who went on to shape the Blitz Kids silhouette in the 1980s — David Johnson recalls the life of fashion designer Stephen Linard
Stephen Linard, the Blitz Kid fashion designer whose clothes were worn by David Bowie, Boy George and Spandau Ballet, died on March 10, aged 64, after enduring painful cancer during recent months. David Johnson remembers the life and career of the man he knew: The press called them the New Romantics and the Blitz Kids, declaring the Eighties…
The queer Brit Auteur Terrence Davies who excelled in personal film-making, and who treated cinema as artistry has Died
The gay British auteur Terrence Davies who always reached back into the past for the ideas of his films, has just died aged 77 His output was not prolific but it contained some of the very best quintessentially British cinema in the past 50 years. Davies’s breakthrough in 1973 was ‘The Terrence Davies Trilogy.‘ …
Dr Evadne Hinge (aka George Logan) one half of the unforgettable musical duo Hinge and Bracket dies aged 78
Sad news reached the Queerguru Office from The Old Manse in Stackton Tressel in Suffolk UK about the passing of Dr. Evadne Hinge, one-half of the legendary musical duo Hinge and Bracket who morphed from playing London’s infamous gay pubs to starring in a production of the opera Die Fledermaus. at The Royal Opera House …
