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- GAY IN LLIE JORDAN HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 67
- WILLIE GARSON, CARRIE'S GAY BTIE ON SEX AND THE CY, HAS DIED
- FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
- QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
- COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
- GAY MAN DI AT RIKERS WHILE HELD UNR $1 BAIL; FAY SEEKS ANSWERS
GAY IN LLIE JORDAN HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 67
"Related: Llie Jordan Is the Baton-Twirlg Comic the World Needs a Crisis"I'd do an exercise vio bee there are so many gay men wh the perfect abs and they do exercise vios, " Jordan told The Advote 2020 for a digal ver story about how the viral vios started. In 2021, Jordan released his first album, tled Company's Com', featurg gay in Dolly Parton and out sger-songwrer Brandi Carlile among others, and he went on to make his Grand Ole Opry but as a rult. Garson played Stanford Blatch, a gay talent agent and the pendable, wty and always well-drsed nfidant of Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jsi like the four lead characters (some fans lled him “the fifth lady”), Stanford was put through the datg rger.
WILLIE GARSON, CARRIE'S GAY BTIE ON SEX AND THE CY, HAS DIED
He was one of the few openly gay characters on TV at the time. Garson, who was not gay, told The Huffgton Post.
“But the gay muny really rose up, and said ‘We know people like this, this is real.
”He said another terview: “I always felt that there’s nothg worse than straight actors playg gay characters televisn and then dog rtwheels to tell people that they’re straight all the time — as if they were gay, that’d be a bad thg.
FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS
Willie Garson, the actor known for playg Carrie Bradshaw's gay bt iend, Stanford Blatch, on Sex and the Cy, has died at age died "after a short illns, " People reports. His character, a talent agent, was always well-drsed and ready wh a wty was straight but stayed the closet about his sexualy durg the n of the show, sayg he didn't want to offend gay people.
In a Page Six terview last year, he referred to "people playg gay characters jumpg up and down screamg that they're not gay, like that would somehow be a bad thg if they were.
As he grew olr and realized he was gay, he eventually fell out wh the church. A straight woman, she beme a strong LGBTQ+ ally and worked extensively wh Out Boulr County and other activist ReynoldsHunter Reynolds, a gay artist who appeared elaborate gowns of his own sign to raise awarens of HIV and fight homophobia, died July 12 at his Manhattan home of squamo cell rcoma. Jefey EsffierJefey Esffier, a longtime activist, thor of works on gay inty, and creator of public health mpaigns, died May 20 Brooklyn, N.
QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
In the 1970s, he beme print of the Philalphia chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance and found s publitn, The Gay Alternative. He later found Out/Look: Natnal Lbian and Gay Quarterly, which ran the OutWre nference for LGBTQ+ wrers. He wrote many says, some of which were llected books, and the 1990s he joed New York Cy's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he oversaw advertisg mpaigns on a variety of health issu, cludg HIV, asthma, smokg, and Wt Nile PacheAdult film star Jason Pache, who performed unr the name Randy for the Sean Cody gay-porn stud, died July 9 at age 33 Sprgfield, Mass.
COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
Jam Bidgood, the filmmaker behd the unrground gay classic Pk Narciss, died January at age 88.
It picted the fantasi of a young gay sex worker, played by Bobby Kendall, Bidgood’s roommate. In 1980, Maison was the top legal fenr of gay men arrted for "public lewdns" a police stg the prev year at Village Statn. Kantrowz was “an early champn of gay rights and an fatigable mpaigner for fairer treatment of gay people by the media, ” the Tim not.
Mass, a founr of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, lled Kantrowz “a te sage and champn. ”He beme vice print of the Gay Activists Alliance, one of the first groups found the wake of the Stonewall rts, 1970. That was also the year he me to terms wh beg gay, acrdg to the Tim.
GAY MAN DI AT RIKERS WHILE HELD UNR $1 BAIL; FAY SEEKS ANSWERS
He helped found GLAAD, then known as the Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, was a profsor the English partment at the Cy Universy of New York’s College of Staten Island om 1965 to 2006, and while there he created one of the first gay studi urs the natn. He promoted the work of Walt Whman and other gay 1977 he published a memoir, Unr the Rabow: Growg Up Gay, which he chronicled the difficulti he and other gay people faced mid-century Ameri. He also scribed events the gay rights movement, cludg New York Cy’s first Pri march.
Much later, 2009, he was grand marshal of the Staten Island Gay Pri was a ntemporary and iend of many fellow activists, cludg Vo Rso, thor of The Celluloid Closet. He appeared Vo, a 2011 documentary about Rso, and several other documentari about the LGBTQ+ muny, cludg Gay Sex the ’70s and After Stonewall. He also was one of the first out gay guts on popular rad and TV talk shows, speakg to Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jsy Raphael, and more.