Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2018

'Brazil

• Marielle Franco, City Councillor, Rio de Janiero

China

• Ellen Joyce Loo, singer and songwriter with group at17

'Cuba

• Mary Irene Fornes, playwright and director

Great Britain

• Judy Blame, jewellery designer and fashion stylist
• Percy Steven, theatre director
• Dale Winton, radio and television host

Ireland

• Timmy Matley, lead singer of 'The Overtones'

Taiwan

• Micky Chen, documentary film producer

United States

• Gary Beach, Broadway musical actor
• David Buckel, lawyer
• Bo Churney, sports journalist
• Tab Hunter, actor
• Robert Indiana, pop artist and sculptor
• Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, feminist poet and activist
• Connie Kurtz, activist
• J. D. McClatchy, poet, literary critic, and producer of operatic works
• Stathis Orphanos, portrait photographer
• Bob Smith, comedian and writer
• Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, activist and founder of Miss Trans America pageant
• Ralph Sylverster, book publisher
• Paul Taylor, modern dance choreographer, Paul Taylor Dance Company
• Donna Red Wing, activist
• Robert Wood, religious leader
• Craig Zadan, film and television producer