Deaths

President of LGBT Congressional Staff Association Chris Crowe Dies at 29 After Bout with Meningitis

Andy Towle March 31, 2011

Roll Call reports that Chris Crowe, president of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Congressional Staff Association and a longtime legislative … [Read more...] about President of LGBT Congressional Staff Association Chris Crowe Dies at 29 After Bout with Meningitis

Andy Towle March 29, 2011

Actor Farley Granger, who starred in Hitchock's Rope (1948) and Strangers On a Train (1951), Nicholas Ray's They Live By Night … [Read more...] about Actor Farley Granger, Who Refused to Play Hollywood ‘Marrying Game’, Has Died at 85

Andy Towle March 25, 2011

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson, known for the plays Talley's Folly, Balm in Gilead, Fifth of July, and Burn This, among others, … [Read more...] about Gay Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Lanford Wilson is Dead at 73

Andy Towle March 24, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor was a frequent visitor to West Hollywood gay bar The Abbey in recent years, and the bar has set up a shrine in her name, and is … [Read more...] about Shrine and Cocktail Honor Elizabeth Taylor at Her Favorite Gay Bar

Andy Towle March 23, 2011

amfAR posted a powerful tribute to Elizabeth Taylor on its website following her death this morning, highlighting her work as an AIDS activist over … [Read more...] about Watch: amfAR Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

Andy Towle March 22, 2011

Spinning Soul reports:Soul and Disco singer Loleatta Holloway died Monday evening following a brief illness. She was 64 years old. Holloway’s death … [Read more...] about Dance Diva Loleatta Holloway Dead at 64

Andy Towle March 1, 2011

Harvard's longtime chaplain, Reverend Peter J. Gomes, has died of a brain aneurysm and heart attack at 68, the Harvard Crimson reports. "His … [Read more...] about Longtime Harvard Chaplain and Theologian Peter Gomes Dies at 68

Andy Towle February 18, 2011

Perry Moore, a producer on The Chronicles of Narnia film franchise and an author of the 2007 novel Hero, about a gay teen superhero, was found dead in … [Read more...] about Producer and Author Perry Moore Found Dead

Andy Towle February 7, 2011

Tura Satana, cult star of the Russ Meyer film Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill, has died of heart failure in Reno, Nevada at the age of 72The L.A. Times … [Read more...] about ‘Faster Pussycatt, Kill, Kill’ Cult Star Tura Satana Dies

Andy Towle January 31, 2011

Designer Charles Nolan has died at the age of 53, the NYT reports: The cause was cancer of the head and neck, said Andrew Tobias, the financial … [Read more...] about Designer Charles Nolan Dies at 53