Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2018
From QueerBio.com
Brazil
- Marielle Franco, City Councillor, Rio de Janiero
China
- Ellen Joyce Loo, singer and songwriter with group at17
Cuba
- Maria 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
- Mickey 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