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  • Thursday, September 18
    John Burnside dies at 91: inventor, gay rights activist, partner to Harry Hay
    Source: Bay Area Reporter , Los Angeles Times John Lyon Burnside III, an inventor, dancer, and activist, has died. Burnside, who had recently been diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco, said Joey Cain, a longtime friend. He was 91. Burnside was the inventor...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 09-18-2008
  • Thursday, September 18
    John Burnside dies at 91: inventor, gay rights activist, partner to Harry Hay
    Source: Bay Area Reporter , Los Angeles Times John Lyon Burnside III, an inventor, dancer, and activist, has died. Burnside, who had recently been diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer, died Sunday at his home in San Francisco, said Joey Cain, a longtime friend. He was 91. Burnside was the inventor...
    Posted to Qblog (Weblog) by external blog Qnews : nw:gaynews on 09-18-2008
  • Wednesday, August 27
    Del Martin, pioneer lesbian activist, dies at 87
    Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Miami Herald , Californian     Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon photo via Maimi Herald SAN FRANCISCO -- Del Martin, a lesbian rights pioneer who took part in one of California's first same-sex weddings, died today in San Francisco after a long period of declining...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 08-27-2008
  • Thursday, February 14
    Parents of Oxnard shooting victim recall 'a unique, caring young man'
    Source: Ventura County Times The family of Lawrence King, the eighth-grade boy who was fatally shot Tuesday by a junior high school classmate at E.O. Green School in Oxnard, remembered him this morning as a unique, caring young man. King shooting The boy, who was known as Larry, loved to sing songs by...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 02-14-2008
  • Tuesday, January 15
    Gay rights pioneer, Kennith H. Burns, 81, dies in Los Angeles
    Source: Los Angeles Times , with additional material Kennith H. Burns, an early leader of the Mattachine Society, one of the country's first gay rights organizations, died Dec. 16 at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. He was 81. The cause was lung failure, according to a friend, Dale...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 01-15-2008
  • Saturday, January 12
    Homophobic founder of "bigot-burger" joints dies
    Source: Associated Press via OC Register and Los Angeles Times ANAHEIM -- Carl N. Karcher, who parlayed a $325 investment in a hot-dog cart into one of the largest hamburger chains in the West died Friday. He was 90. The founder of the Carl's Jr. fast-food chain suffered from Parkinson's disease...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 01-12-2008
  • Saturday, January 05
    'Unsung hero' and financial wizard for gay groups, Jim Nickoff, dies
    Source: San Francisco Chronicle Jim Nickoff, who was key in the financial success of gay civil rights organizations and several political campaigns, died at his ranch in Woodside on Dec. 16. He was 44 years old. Mr. Nickoff was a founding board member of Equality California, one of the most successful...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 01-05-2008
  • Tuesday, December 11
    Gay historian Allan Berube dies at 61
    Source: The Advocate Gay historian Allan Berube, award-winning author of Coming Out Under Fire, died Tuesday of complications from two stomach ulcers. He was 61. Berube was an independent historian and community activist. After coming out in 1969, he joined a gay liberation collective household. He later...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 12-11-2007
  • Saturday, November 24
    AIDS treatment pioneer Merle Sande dies at Seattle home
    Source: San Francisco Chronicle Dr. Merle Sande, an infectious disease expert who was on the front lines when the first AIDS cases appeared in San Francisco and who later focused his attention on the spread of the disease in Africa, has died. Sande died Nov. 14 of multiple myeloma at his home in Seattle...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 11-24-2007
  • Thursday, November 08
    Scott Hitt, AIDS specialist/activist and presidential advisor, dies
    Source: Associated Press via Mercury News LOS ANGELES (AP) Dr. R. Scott Hitt, an AIDS specialist and the first openly gay person to head a presidential advisory board, has died. He was 49. Hitt died Thursday of colon cancer at his home in West Hollywood, according to John Duran, the city's mayor...
    Posted to Qnews (Weblog) by NewsEditor on 11-08-2007
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