obituary
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Martyn Butler OBE activist and co-founder THT major AIDS UK Charity dies aged 71
Sad news has reached us from the UK about the death of one of London’s leading queer activists. Martyn Butler OBE was one of the co-founders of the celebrated TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST, which became one of the world’s most successful and effective campaigns that provided services relating to HIV and sexual health. Established in 1982, Terrence Higgins…
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Filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim icon of the gay and lesbian movement in Germany dies aged 83
The word icon is probably too widely overused, especially in the LGBTQA+ community, but having said that, there can be no doubt that the late German queer filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim was one. Film director, author, producer, professor of directing and one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema and in over 50…
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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…
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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…
