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Kent James, also known as the punk-influenced rock music frontman Nick Name, died at his home in Palm Springs on July 3, 2020. The gay singer-songwriter lived in San Francisco for a few years, and performed at local nightclubs.
The obituary for Doug Kent.
The obituary for Margot Antonetty.
The obituary for Ida VSW Red.
Larry Kramer — the New York City-based gay playwright and author whose involvement in the Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP changed the course of the AIDS epidemic — died May 27. He was 84
David Carter, a gay man whose book on the 1969 Stonewall riots was considered by many scholars and critics as the definitive text on the seminal event in LGBTQ history, died May 1 in his Greenwich Village apartment in New York City.
The obituary for Bradford Byron Potts
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The obituary for Jim Campbell.
The obituary for Joseph Saunders.
The obituary for Nick Shelbi.
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