Pioneering Religious Leader and Writer Malcolm Boyd, 91, Has Died
Malcolm Boyd, a noted gay spiritual leader, activist and writer, has died
Nadine Gordimer: The Writer as Conscience of a Nation
“There are few writers in the world to equal the breadth of Nadine Gordimer. The valiant fighter against apartheid and against the oppression of women and gays in South Africa died July 13 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was 90.”
Remembering Assotto Saint: A Fierce and Fatal Vision
“[Saint] knew he had to chronicle the black gay voices of AIDS or they would be lost. He had to collect the bits and pieces that would create a different kind of names quilt–the angry verses, the embittered stanzas, the breathy last couplets of the dying.”
In Remembrance: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Award-winning novelist and screenwriter Ruth
Writer and Critic Donald Richie, 88, has Died
American ex-pat, writer, and critic Donald Richie, author of the memoir The Japan Journals, 1947-2004, died on February 19th, 2013 in Toyko. He was 88.
Gerda Lerner: Founder of Women’s Studies Movement Dies at 92
In an interview with the Chicago Tribune 20 years ago, Gerda Lerner said, “When I started working on women’s history about 30 years ago, the field did not exist. People didn’t think women had a history worth knowing.”
