Obituaries of members and notable transgender people. Remembering our Dead articles are published as a Memoriam at URNotAlone.com transgender site. New obituaries appear at the top of the listings. See excerpts below and click “Read More” for the obituaries listed.
April Ashley April 29, 1935 – December 27, 2021 April Ashley Featured Photo Credit: Loz Pycock – Flickr: An Evening With April Ashley at the Southbank Centre URNA remembers April Ashley, a transgender icon, who died on December 27, 2021 at the age of 86. April was born …
Stu Rasmussen Stu Rasmussen Obituary at Unger Funeral Chapel Remembering Stu Rasmussen September 9, 1948 – November 17, 2021 URNotAlone Remembers Stu Rasmussen who died on November 17th, 2021 at 73 years of age due to metastatic prostate cancer. Stu used both male and female …
nytimes.com by William Grimes Dec 7, 2015
Holly came from Miami F-L-A,
Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A.,
Plucked her eyebrows on the way,
Shaved her legs and then he was a she.
Holly Woodlawn, a transgender actress who achieved under…
The more I cry.. the more I understand.
I sincerely believe that.
What Lyra taught me was that we have a voice, that can be heard, and it can be loud.. and it can also be silent.
The test of time captures only one thing, our experiences. The …
My Friends,
We lost a true and dear friend to us all this week, Lyra The Original. I will miss her terribly. She and I became close over the years and we shared our lives together. We laughed, we cried, we shared our most private thoughts. As m…
windycitymediagroup.com – by Kate Sosin, Windy City Times
Makayla/Michael Gwinn, a young transgender person whose life work was in mentoring fellow LGBTQ youth among other things died Feb. 16. Gwinn was 23.
An active performer, makeup artist and …
sfist.com – By Jay Barmann
Beloved local legend Vicki Marlane died this morning at 7 a.m. of an undisclosed illness. She was 76. Nicknamed “The Lady With the Liquid Spine” for her trademark, sultry flexibility while lip syncing, Marlane was profiled…
AZCentral.com – by Lynh Bui – The Arizona Republic
The Scottsdale Human Relations commissioner who began the job as Ken Culver and reappointed later as Michele de LaFreniere died recently.
Although de LaFreniere is most known for her activism in …
Advocate.com – By Amita Parashar
Virginia Prince, a pioneer of the cross-dressing community and longtime activist for transgender rights, died on Saturday, May 2. She was 96 years old.
Prince’s philosophies attracted fierce criticism, especially …
News.AsiaOne.com
Some 2,000 well-wishers turned up to say their last goodbyes to popular getai performer Lim Lee, causing traffic to crawl at Bedok Reservoir Road on Saturday afternoon.
From 9.30am, drummers and opera singers had begun belting ou…