“Lavenr Country,” Patrick Haggerty’s first album rerd unr the same name, is wily nsired the first untry album rerd by an out gay mician. He died Monday, several weeks after havg a stroke.
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
- COLORADO MOM SAYS 9-YEAR-OLD SON WHO CAME OUT AS GAY DIED BY SUICI AFTER SCHOOL BULLYG
- QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
- WHAT WAS KYLE DEAN'S CSE OF DEATH? GAY PORN STAR DEAD AT 21
- PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78
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.
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. 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.
QUEER FANS MOURN LLIE JORDAN, A SYMBOL OF A 'LOST GENERATN' OF GAY MEN
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.
WHAT WAS KYLE DEAN'S CSE OF DEATH? GAY PORN STAR DEAD AT 21
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.
”“He was thoughtful, charmg, and like any good profsor (he was among the first to teach a urse gay lerature, 1973), a lifelong stunt and teacher, ” former Whe Hoe staffer Jeremy L.
Leo Bersani, an amic theorist noted for wrg about gay inty durg the height of the AIDS crisis, died Febary at age 90.
PATRICK HAGGERTY, TRAILBLAZG GAY UNTRY STAR, DI AT 78
” which he lambasted “the tenncy among some gay activists to rpond to AIDS by downplayg their sexualy and emphasizg the need to replite bourgeois heterosexualy, ” the Tim reports. “Male homosexualy was not the mirror image of heterosexualy, he argued, but somethg radilly different, lackg many of the patriarchal equali that he said fed straight life, ” the paper explas.
“Far om apologizg for their promiscuy as a failure to mata a lovg relatnship, gay men should ceaselsly lament the practil necsy, now, of such relatns, should rist beg drawn to mimickg the unrelentg warfare between men and women, ” Bersani wrote the his 1995 book Homos, he criqued queer theory, sayg that by seeg gay inty as socially nstcted and performative, proponents of this theory ignored and unrmed the liberatg quali of beg gay. In addn to wrg on gay inty, he was a scholar of lerature, pecially the work of gay French novelist Marcel Prot.