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The global LGBTQ community lost many notable individuals during the year. Each of these individuals has played an important and visible role in creating an awareness, sensitivity, profile, and as an activist for human rights as they relate to minorities and sexual diversities. We lost a particular cohort of LGBTQ poets this year. Other individuals made notable contributions in the field of journalism, dance, fashion, film, activism, music, law, politics, and books.

Each will be remembered for their personal and professional impact on their friends, communities, and the world at large.

Simply click on their names to read their fascinating biographies:

Canada

• Mark Elliot - journalist

Haiti

• Charlot Jeudy - activist

Ireland

• Lyra McKee - journalist

Mexico

• Miriam Rivera - Transgender model

Puerto Rico

• Kevin Fret - rapper and hip hop artist

Russia

• Yelena Grigoryeva - activist

Uganda

• Brian Wasswa

United States

• Dante Austin - police officer
• Ellis Avery - author, poet and teacher
• Victor J. Banis - author
• Dan Berkowitz - playwright
• Scotty Bowers - confidant
• Douglas Crimp - academic
• Howard Cruse - comic book illustrator
• John Giorno - poet
• Richard Green - lawyer and psychiatrist
• Ellen Greenblatt - editor and librarian
• Barbara Hammer - filmmaker
• Jerry Herman - Broadway show lyricist
• George Hodgman - Editor at Vanity Fair magazine
• Kevin Killian - poet, writer
• Patricia Nell Warren - writer
• Mary Oliver - poet
• Michael Rumaker - poet
• Jackie Shane - singer
• Barbra Siperstein - transgender politician
• Andy Velez - AIDS activist
• Harris Wofford - Senator

See Also

• Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2018
• Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2017

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