Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2019
From QueerBio.com
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
'Greece
- Zak Kostopoulos - activist
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
United States
- Dante Austin - police officer
- Ellis Avery - author, poet and teacher
- Victor J. Banis - author
- Scotty Bowers - confidant
- Douglas Crimp - academic
- Howard Cruse - comic book illustrator
- Kevin Killian - poet, writer
- John Giorno - poet
- Richard Green - lawyer and psychiatrist
- Ellen Greenblatt - editor and librarian
- Barbara Hammer - filmmaker
- George Hodgman - Editor at Vanity Fair magazine
- Mary Oliver - poet
- Michael Rumaker - poet
- Jackie Shane - singer
- Barbra Siperstein - transgender politician
- Andy Velez - AIDS activist
- Harris Wofford - Senator
