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Mary McIntosh

Posted on: January 18th, 2013 by History Month
Here is an obituary of Mary McIntosh, the academic feminist and lesbian and gay rights campaigner, who died on January the 5th 2013, by humanist Ken Plummer

Daniel Inouye 1924-2012

Posted on: December 19th, 2012 by History Month
Daniel Inouye, a proponent of gay rights and the second-longest serving Senator, died Monday at the age of 88, succumbing to a respiratory illness. His political career began in Hawaii where he served as the state’s first U.S. Representative in congress when the state joined the union in 1959. A...

Funeral of Veteran Ulster LGBT Rights Leader

Posted on: November 18th, 2012 by History Month
The funeral was held on Saturday the 17th of November of one of Northern Ireland’s best known LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) rights campaigners, PA Maglochlainn, who died from a long illness. Mr Maglochlainn was the president of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association (NIGRA) and helped organise Belfast’s first...

Gore Vidal

Posted on: September 6th, 2012 by History Month
Read the obituary of Gore Vidal from the New York Times here

Allan Horsfall. An Obituary by Peter Tatchell

Posted on: September 6th, 2012 by History Month
Allan was arguably the grandfather of the modern gay rights movement in Britain. He was first active for gay law reform in the late 1950s. In 1964, he founded Britain’s first ever grassroots, gay-led rights organisation, the Manchester-based North-West Homosexual Law Reform Committee, which became the Campaign for Homosexual...

Allan Horsfall 1927-2012

Posted on: September 4th, 2012 by History Month
Allan Horsfall To read a short account from Gay Star News of the life of Allan Horsfall, father of the LGBT rights movement, go here  

British Choreographer and Performer Nigel Charnock

Posted on: August 12th, 2012 by History Month
Nigel Charnock, Choreographer and Performer; founder member of DV8, 23 May 1960 – 1 August 2012. Read the Guardian obituary here

Gad Beck

Posted on: August 12th, 2012 by History Month
Gerhard Beck, educator, author and activist: born Berlin 30 June 1923; partner to Julius Laufer; died Berlin 24 June 2012.

Asha Amma Dewi Given Moving Funeral

Posted on: August 10th, 2012 by History Month
Asha ‘Amma’ Dewi, Malaysia’s oldest trans woman and a guide and counsellor to the country’s trans community was given a moving funeral in Kuala Lumpur on August the 8th following her death from a heart attack the day before. To read more go here.

Chavela Vargas April 17, 1919 – August 5, 2012

Posted on: August 8th, 2012 by History Month
Legendary Mexican singer Chavela Vargas has died aged 93. Born in Costa Rica, Vargas emigrated to Mexico at 14 to improve her opportunities as a musician. Massively popular in the 50s and 60s, she came out as a lesbian at the tender age of 81. Chavela was a friend...

Donna Summer December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012

Posted on: May 18th, 2012 by History Month
Troubled and occasionally troubling electronic disco diva Donna Summer has died at the age of 63. Whether or not she made that alleged statement about victims of AIDS, she performed free at concerts for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Either way she’ll be remembered best for the classic I...

Veteran gay Campaigner Frank Kameny Dies

Posted on: October 12th, 2011 by History Month
Frank Kameny, who was sacked for being openly gay in 1957 and took to the streets from 1965 – four years before the Stonewall Riots and a decade before gay liberation supposedly began, has died aged 86. To read the Equality Forum obituary go here

Arthur Evans Dies aged 69

Posted on: September 18th, 2011 by History Month
Veteran Gay rights and anti-AIDS activist Arthur Evans has died after a heart attack aged 69. A participant in the Stonewall Riots, Evans went on to join the Gay Liberation Front after 1969, although he left later as he felt the organisation was watering down the cause by taking...

Helen Lowe

Posted on: August 27th, 2011 by History Month
Lesbian feminist campaigner and advocate of direct action Helen Lowe has died aged 67. To read the obituary of this remarkable woman by her partner Judy Greenway, published in The Guardian, click here

Margaret Beswick

Posted on: May 24th, 2011 by History Month
Margaret Beswick, lesbian, LGF and Fflag member who died on the 27th April, 2011, is remembered here

Paul Patrick

Posted on: May 22nd, 2011 by History Month
May 22nd marked the 3rd anniversary of the death of Paul Patrick, co-founder of LGBT History Month. To read his obituary, go here

Memorial Event

Posted on: May 15th, 2011 by History Month
Memorial Celebration for Vijayatara AKA Sharon Smith - Saturday May 28, 2011 Memorial Celebration for Vijayatara AKA Sharon Smith - July 1, 1961 to March 13, 2011 2 to 6 pm. Stoke Newington West Reservoir Centre Green Lanes, N4 2HA This is an opportunity for all who knew Vijayatara...
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Dorothy Thompson

Posted on: March 20th, 2011 by History Month
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Paul Patrick

Posted on: March 14th, 2011 by History Month
Obituary of Paul Patrick, teacher and speaker, theatre practitioner and one of the country's leading activists on lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans issues.
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Nancy Duiguid

Posted on: March 14th, 2011 by History Month
Obituary of Nancy Diuguid; actor, writer, director.
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Jo Campling

Posted on: March 14th, 2011 by History Month
Obituary of one of the disabled people's movement's earliest and staunchest allies and supporters.
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Paul Wilde

Posted on: March 14th, 2011 by History Month
Obituary of Paul Wilde one of the founders of the Gay Business Association

Barbara Gittings

Posted on: March 14th, 2011 by History Month
Obituary of Barbara Gittings, a seminal gay activist
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Barbara Burford Dies

Posted on: April 3rd, 2010 by History Month
> Barbara Burford 1944 – 2010 The poet, writer and equality and diversity expert Barbara Burford died on 20 February. She was much loved and will be remembered by many. She is survived by her partner of 23 years, Joy Howard, and her daughter Sarah Burford. You can read...
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