in memoriam

Obituaries for the people who mattered to us: the icons, the activists, the ones who showed up early, and the ones the mainstream press will underplay.

a drag queen died in a london flat in 2023. after four detective teams and a protest outside scotland yard, we finally know why. Heklina, the San Francisco drag performer who founded Trannyshack, died on April 3, 2023 in a London flat while on tour with Peaches Christ. An inquest gave the cause as acute mixed drug toxicity. Three and a half years and... september 17 sophie lee was named best new overall mother in the spring. she was 27. Sophie Lee, 27, was shot and killed early Friday on the 2400 block of North Calvert Street in Baltimore's Barclay neighborhood. Police have no suspect and say it is unclear whether her identity had anything to do with it. This... september 15 bob mackie died monday at 87. he shared his first emmy with the man he lived with, and lost his son to aids in 1993. Bob Mackie died Monday morning in Palm Springs at 87, of pneumonia. He won nine Emmys from thirty nominations, a Tony, three Oscar nominations and no Oscars, and he put Cher in the clothes that made her Cher. The first... september 14 jason collins signed his will a month after the diagnosis, and left part of it to the kids Court documents obtained by TMZ Sports show the late NBA center left more than $1.8 million to his parents, his twin brother, a cousin, an aunt, his husband William Brunson Green, and two organizations that work with LGBTQ students. He... september 12 the 9/11 fund will take claims until 2090 and still cannot say whether it pays a same-sex partner Twenty-five years on, the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund has paid more than $18 billion to over 77,000 people and stays open until October 1, 2090. Asked this week whether a surviving same-sex partner qualifies, the fund's spokesperson said she... september 11 two women tortured Sam Nordquist for a month. on Tuesday both got life without parole. Precious Arzuaga, 40, and Jennifer Quijano, 32, were both sentenced at Ontario County Court in Canandaigua on Tuesday to life in prison without parole for the first-degree murder of Sam Nordquist, a 24-year-old Black trans man from Minnesota. Sam's sister... september 8 six days before he died, Vincent asked his sister if anyone would show up. a thousand people did. A thousand people filled Catalina Park in Tucson for Vincent Siqueiros and Cameron Capara, killed outside the Venture-N. His sister told the crowd what he had asked her the week before. september 6 Gloria Steinem showed up for us in 1977 and never left The Ms. co-founder died at home in Manhattan on Wednesday at 92. She flew to Miami to fight Anita Bryant when it cost something to do so. september 4