Milestones
Bettie Naylor, a major influencer of feminist and LGBT politics in the 1970s and ‘80s and beyond.
Category: Obituaries
Funeral Notice: Albert Mata
Albert Mata, the spouse of Houston GLBT Community Center President Tim Brookover, passed away on Monday, February 2o, 2012. The Visitation and the Memorial Service will be at: Bethel United Church of Christ 1107 Shepherd Drive (in Houston’s Old West End) Houston, Texas 77007
Obituary Notice: David Kelly Richardson
David Kelley “Bird” Richardson, 36, of Dickinson, TX passed away on January 2, 2012 after a hard fought battle with cancer.
Milestones — Lorene Pouncey
Born October 18, 1921, in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Lorene Pouncey died December 4, 2011, at her home.
Owner of Gay-Friendly Dixie’s Bar Dies
Yvonne “Dixie” Fasnacht, who spent much of her life playing jazz and welcoming aficionados to her French Quarter Club–Dixie’s Bar of Music on Bourbon Street–has died at 101.
Lesbian Publisher Barbara Grier Dies at 78
Barbara Grier (greer), co-founder of the lesbian publishing company Naiad (ny-ADD’) Press, has died. She was 78. Grier’s partner, Donna McBride, says she died of cancer Thursday at a hospital in Tallahassee, Fla. The couple founded Naiad Press in 1973. She says Grier believed that through literature she could make lesbians feel good about themselves and find a happy life.
Frank Kameny, Pioneering Gay Activist, Dies at 86
Frank Kameny was out and proud before people knew what being “gay” meant.
Obituary Notice: Timothy Michael Hamrock
Timothy Michael Hamrock, born in Denver, Colorado on April 4, 1948, passed away on September 22, 2011, in Galveston, Texas.
