Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2018
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. These individuals made notable contributions in the field of theatre, dance, fashion design, film, activism, journalism, music, poetry, religion, law, photography, business, 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:
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
Greece
- Zak Kostopoulos, activist
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 Sylvester, 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
