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.
Telegraph.co.uk
Sammy Duddy, who died on October 17 aged 62, had a rather unusual curriculum vitae for a member of the Loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in having been a drag artiste who went by the stage name of Samantha.
During t…
PRNewsWire.com – Source: The Spector Family
Washington – Cheryl Ann Spector, well known in the Washington, DC area for her dedication to Gay, Lesbian and other humanitarian causes and for her archiving the history of the gay movement in America, die…
BayWindows.com – Laura Kiritsy
Max Feldman, who wrote and recorded the first song that proclaimed a lesbian identity, died unexpectedly at home in Albuquerque, N.M., on Aug. 17. Feldman, who was 62, died of natural causes, said Helen Thornton, Fel…
Entertainment.TimesOnline.co.uk – Times Online and agencies
Michel Serrault, a prolific French actor who won international renown as an over-emotional drag queen in the 1978 comedy La Cage Aux Folles, has died after a long illness. He was 79.
One…
eBar.com – by Cynthia Laird
San Francisco transgender pioneer Claire Leigh Skiffington died June 11 at Pioneer House, a retirement facility in Sacramento, following a lengthy struggle with cancer. She was 62.
The former health department employee…
Remembering Roxy Rush
In Loving Memory of Roxy Rush
March 29, 1966 ? May 10, 2006
Roxy Rush was one of the most respected members of our community a beautiful person who left this world far too soon. On this first anniversary of her death plea…
EBar.com – by Zak Szymanski
Friends, family, and colleagues from literary, artistic, and LGBT circles are preparing to honor the late poet kari edwards at a memorial on Friday, April 27, to be held at 7:30 p.m. at the San Francisco campus of the Cal…
Jacksonville.com – By Rachel Davis, The Times-Union
At her funeral, friends and family remember the boy and the woman he transitioned into.
In the end they mourned for two, the shy boy who was born Jeffery Bryan Schley and the bold woman he becam…
eBar.com – by Cynthia Laird
Community leader and performer Heather MacAllister died Tuesday, February 13 in Portland, Oregon after a three-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 38.
Ms. MacAllister’s passing was announced by the NoLose Web site…
TheChronicleHerald.ca – By Chris Lambie and Greg Guy – Staff Reporters
One of Halifax?s most famous drag queens, who enjoyed far more than his five minutes of fame, has given his last show.
Lulu LaRude, a.k.a. Charles McDuff Gillis, died Thursday…