Tag: Remembrances

Historian and LGBT Biographer Stephen Maglott, 58, has Died

Stephen Maglott, a dedicated chronicler of LGBT lives, has died

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In Remembrance: Nancy Garden

Nancy Garden, author, editor, LGBT activist, former theater maven and teacher, died suddenly on the morning of June 23 of a massive heart attack. She was 76.

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Remembering Taylor Mead: Queer, Beat Poet, and Warhol Superstar

While many of Mead’s contemporaries from the Warhol days either died young or moved on to different things, Mead continued to live his eccentric and artistic life in lower Manhattan, painting, and writing poetry…

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In Remembrance: Margaret Thatcher’s Queer Legacy

It was compelling for the young lesbian-feminist reporter that I was, being in a country run by a woman. As a feminist, I wanted to experience that difference–having a woman in charge. That constancy of presence of Thatcher’s was part of the difference, the intensity with which she seized power was another.

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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.”

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In Remembrance: Damien Bona

On January 29th, Damien Bona,

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