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Thursday, September 18
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...
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Thursday, September 18
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...
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Wednesday, August 27
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...
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Thursday, February 14
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...
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Tuesday, January 15
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...
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Saturday, January 12
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...
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Saturday, January 05
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...
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Tuesday, December 11
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...
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Saturday, November 24
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...
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Thursday, November 08
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...
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