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.
PopMatters.com – Bill Gibron
Van Smith never won an Oscar. He was never idolized or celebrated by a vehement genre audience like Dick Smith or Tom Savini. If his chief collaborator, cinematic genius John Waters, was the ?Pope of Puke?, Smith was his…
EBar.com – by Liz Highleyman
Former San Francisco Police Sergeant Elliott Blackstone, a longtime ally of the LGBT community, died October 25, a month shy of his 82nd birthday.
According to an obituary placed in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sgt. B…
ShowBizAndStyle.inq7.net – By Behn Cervantes – Inquirer
Published on page G1 of the October 21, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Lollie Mara texted me that she could pass by for me on her way to Rico Puno’s party. The singer was hostin…
NYTimes.com – Lola Ogunnaike
Willi Ninja, known as the Grandfather of Vogue, a dance form that he helped move from the New York club scene of the 1980?s to the concert stage, died on Saturday in Queens. He was 45.
The cause was AIDS-related heart…
Chron.com – Allan Turner – Houston Chronicle
‘Pioneer,’ 64, didn’t disguise her masculine voice
Brenda Thomas, a one-time auto dealership owner who became a leading local transgender activist, died Sunday at a Houston hospice, a family member sai…
NYTimes.com – Benedict Carey
John William Money, who helped found the field of sexual identity studies, died Friday in Towson, Md. He was 84.
The cause was complications of Parkinson?s disease, said Dr. Money?s niece Sally Hopkins.
A psycholog…
Anchorage Daily News – Beth Bragg
Even in death, Misty Dawn was the portrait of a lady.
Gregory Andrews fixed her hair and makeup the way he’d done twice a week for more than 10 years. Paula Buttner bought her a pretty new blouse and picked out g…
Toronto Star – Catherine Dunphy – Obituary Writer
She burst onto the ’70s literary scene a fully formed writer ? huge, intense, black-rimmed blue/green eyes, brown-wrapped Plus cigarette, telling the literary journalists of the day in her low, husky…
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