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Category: OBITUARY


Gay author, historian Stuart Timmons dead at 60

January 28, 2017

January 28, 2017 574

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Author, historian, gay activist Stuart Timmons died Saturday morning at the Serrano North Convalescent Hospital in...

Debbie Reynolds, early Hollywood AIDS activist

December 29, 2016

December 29, 2016 597

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  The LGBT community—reeling from the deaths of icons George Michael and Carrie Fisher and AIDS Project...

Matt Redman, AIDS Project Los Angeles co-founder, dies at 67

December 28, 2016

December 28, 2016 206

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Matt Redman, an interior designer who co-founded AIDS Project Los Angeles in 1982, died of AIDS-related...

Carrie Fisher, 60, dies in Los Angeles

December 27, 2016

December 27, 2016 189

BY TROY MASTERS  |  Talk about a complicated, wild and deeply connected public life in several fishbowls. Carrie Fisher, 60, who...

Herb Hamsher, Judith Light’s Brilliant Manager, Dies of Cancer

October 27, 2016

October 27, 2016 234

BY KAREN OCAMB | Herb Hamsher, the man beaming from the center of that California AIDS Ride photo, died of...

Mark Thompson, Author, Photographer, Historian, Friend Dies at 63 (UPDATED)

August 13, 2016

August 13, 2016 835

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  UPDATED  |  Mark Thompson, photographer and author of several books on gay spirituality and the history...

Longtime LGBT Ally Garry Marshall Dies

July 20, 2016

July 20, 2016 730

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Tributes are pouring in from the stars he helped create such as Henry Winkler (“Happy Days”)...

Willie Williams, Former LAPD Chief, changed attitudes towards the LGBT community

April 28, 2016

April 28, 2016 6

BY KAREN OCAMB | Willie Williams, the police chief brought in from Philadelphia to take over the Los Angeles Police...

Bill Rosendahl Dies at 70

March 30, 2016

March 30, 2016 3

BY KAREN OCAMB  |  Bill Rosendahl was overwhelming. Big, boisterous, unbounded joy spouting out of his aura like a spiritual...