Biz Markie, whose unforgettable out-of-tune singing on "Just a Friend" highlighted the playful side of rap, has died at age 57. Via [Read more...]
Binx the Cat Found Alive in Florida Condo Collapse, Back with Surviving Family
Nearly two weeks after the [Read more...]
#RIP: Activist Kay Lahusen, First Out Lesbian Photographer in the US
Kay Lahusen, the photographer and author who documented some of the most important moments in the LGBTQ rights movement in the years before Stonewall, has died at age 91. Her wife of 46 years, Barbara Gittings, died in 2007. [Read more...]
#RIP, Deliciously Droll Actor, Charles Grodin
In Midnight Run via YouTube We lost actor Charles Grodin on Tuesday. He was never a big star, maybe because he played his roles without bringing his own baggage along. His gift was an ability to present resentment and superiority with an air of placid understatement. In his … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “I Just Want You to Know That No Matter What You Do, You’re Still Gonna Die.” – Rose Castorini (Olympia Dukakis) in “Moonstruck”.
In Moonstruck via YouTube screenshot The world lost Olympia Dukakis this week. See World of Wonder writer, Trey Speegle's tribute here. She is very dear to LGBTQ because of her Armistead … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “If You Wait, All That Happens Is That You Get Older.” ― Larry McMurtry (RIP)
McMurtry in 1974 by Diana Walker, Wikimedia Commons Jadin Bell (1997 – 2013) was a gay teen who was "intensely bullied" both in person and on the internet because he was gay. He was a member of the La Grande High School cheerleading team in La Grande, Oregon. On January 19, … [Read more...]
#RIP: Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, 104
Beverly Cleary, one of America's most successful children's book authors, has died at age 104. Some of her famous characters include Ramona and Beezus Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. Mouse from The Mouse and the Motorcycle. She believed that "Children should learn that … [Read more...]
#RIP: Actor, George Segal
Segal with Barbra Streisand in The Owl And The Pussycat (1970), screengrab via YouTube This week, we lost George Segal, a major Hollywood star circa mid-1960s through the 1970s, and like Jack Lemmon and our era's Michael Cera, he had that special knack for making neurosis … [Read more...]
#RIP: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet, Publisher, and Free Speech Activist
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the founder of San Francisco's City Lights bookstore and champion of some of the greatest queer and countercultural literature in history, has died at age 101. Ferlinghetti founded City Lights in 1953, and it quickly became the hub of the Beat poetry … [Read more...]
#QueerQuote: “Make a Difference About Something Other Than Yourselves.” – Toni Morrison
Photo: public domain If you don't know Toni Morrison (1931-2019) or her work, and you really should, she was the only African-American writer (and one of the few women) to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech Morrison emphasized the importance … [Read more...]
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