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.
DallasVoice.com – By Daniel A. Kusner – Life Style Editor
Before she hit the stage, Ilene Alloverya told Donna Dumae that she had a dramatic performance in store. It was the last number of Dumae’s 12th annual “Friends Helping Friends” fundraiser for…
KoreaTimes.co.kr – By Kim Rahn – Staff Reporter
A transgender, who became famous for appearing in a show before and after undergoing sex change surgery, committed suicide Saturday, a day after actress Choi Jin-sil’s death.
Police concluded that t…
TheArgus.co.uk – By Richard Gurner
Tributes have been paid after the death of one of the icons of Brighton’s gay community.
Professional actress, singer and landlady at a number of pubs in Brighton and Hove, Tracy Davenport was one of the key fig…
MarketWatch.com – Source: L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center
Los Angeles – PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX – In response to the loss of heroic and pioneering LGBT activist Del Martin, the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Chief Executive Officer Lorri L. Jean is…
LakelandEcho.co.uk – By Greg Lambert
A Fly-Past of a lone Vulcan bomber across Morecambe on Friday was a
fitting tribute to a leading transgender activist, author and RAF veteran of 40 years.
The life of Lynne Janine Braithwaite BEM, who died on A…
Boston.com – By Thomas H. Maugh II – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles – Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in, and drop out, has died. He was 102…
WindyCityMediaGroup.com – by Andrew Davis
Las Vegas transgender legend Jahna Steele died Jan. 24, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She was 49.
The Clark County, Nev., Medical Examiner e-mailed Windy City Times that the “cause and manner…
SameSame.com.au – By dreadcircus
Today I was saddened to hear the news that long time transgender activist, volunteer for Midsumma Festival and all round beautiful soul Zoe Belle had taken her life only days before the Midsumma Festival, which she h…
blogs.VillageVoice.com – by Julie Bolcer
“Whose streets? Bob’s streets!” “Is anyone here fighting for queers?”
More than 100 people chanted on Sunday evening as they marched down Seventh Avenue South in what they called a political funeral to hon…
Charlotte.com – GERRY HOSTETLER
You could say that when his heart stopped beating not one, but two people died. And you wouldn’t be too far from wrong.
Clay Edwin Lambert of Charlotte died Oct. 14 of an apparent heart attack. Showgirl Tracy Morga…