obituary
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Overlooked No More: Roberta Cowell, Trans Trailblazer, Pilot and Auto Racer
Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The New York Times. This month they adding the stories of important L.G.B.T. figures.: this a REPRINT of one of them ROBERTA COWELL At the height of Roberta Cowell’s celebrity status, in 1954, her face adorned the cover of…
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The legendary MICHOU who inspired La Cage Aux Folles has died
Just two days after QUEERGURU interviewed Brit actor MICHAEL MATUS who is about to star in the latest incarnation of the gay classic comedy LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, the very man who inspired the original has died in Paris aged 88. The legendary singer/drag performer/night club owner MICHOU was known as the Blue Prince on…
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Goodbye Jerry : the legendary Broadway composer of Hello Dolly & La Cage Aux Folles has died.
Six time Tony Award winner songwriter-composer JERRY HERMAN died here in Miami Beach yesterday aged 88 years old. This legendary Broadway figure who created such camp hot musicals such as Hello Dolly, Mame and the first ever ‘gay’ musical La Cage Aux Folles (the latter he wrote with Harvey Fierstein) In his long career Herman…
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Terry De Havilland: the colorful cobbler of London’s Swinging Sixties, dies aged 81
Terry De Havilland born in London’s East End just before WW2 broke out, became the capital’s (and then the world’s) most colourful cobbler with his stunning ‘look at me’ shoes in the 1960s’ . His outrageous platform shoes. away ahead of its time ,attracted an enormous band of followers from celebrities like Marianne Faithfull, Led…
