Willie Garson, Carrie's Gay Btie on 'Sex and the Cy,' Has Died

Contents:

• 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.

WILLIE GARSON, CARRIE'S GAY BTIE ON SEX AND THE CY, HAS DIED

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.

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. 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.

FAMO GAY PEOPLE WHO DIED OF AIDS

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.

QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN

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. In the 1970s, he beme print of the Philalphia chapter of the Gay Activists Alliance and found s publitn, The Gay Alternative.

COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG

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. 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.

GAY MAN DI AT RIKERS WHILE HELD UNR $1 BAIL; FAY SEEKS ANSWERS

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.