The local LGBTQ community lost some seminal people in 2017, as did our national community.
Those national gures include:
• John Ashbery—poet
• Gilbert Baker—creator of the rainbow flag
• Judith Bradford—scientist
• J.D. Disalvatore— filmmaker and writer
• Max Ferra—director
• Michael Friedman—composer • Jim Graham—HIV / AIDS activist and politician
• William M. Hoffman—playwright
• Albert Innaurato—playwright
• Rudy Kikel—poet and editor
• Gregory Lugliani—HIV /AIDS activist
• Henry McClurg—publisher
• Kate Millett—writer and activist
• Ruth Mountaingrove—photographer and writer
• Rip Naquin and Marsha Delain—publishers and activists
• Celeste Newbrough—writer and activist
• Chuck Renslow—founder of Leather Archives and Museum
• Charley Shively—activist and educator
• Emily Sisley—psychologist and writer
• Stuart J. Thompson—Broadway producer
• Stuart Timmons—historian
• Diane Torr—artist
• Robert A. Wilson—writer and bookseller
• Edie Windsor—plaintiff in Windsor vs. U.S.
