The Death List 2019.

[belamyi]

Patricia Nell Warren. At 82.

The Front Runner was one of the most influential books in my teenaged years. It legitimized and celebrated the idea that athletes could be homos. And the first modern gay love story that I ever read.

https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.ne...=3fe0b41eb91a35a3fb7fb34df4268a0e&oe=5CF092B3

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Same here. I read that book in my youth; it changed my life.

RIP Patricia Nell Warren.

You mean it scarred you for life?

 

[Thad1527]

I can't imagine The Front Runner scarring anyone. It's an inspiring wonderful story.

The link earlier with Patricia Nell Warren now leads to some other nonsense. Here's a link remembering her all-around goodness. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/02...ful-woman-patricia-nell-warren-finishes-race/

 

[belamyi]

I can be precise about the day it began. He knows that it is going to take everything he has to stay up in front, to run free.

 

[belamyi]

So what about Harlan's Race and Billy's Boy?

 

[unloadonme]

Gordon Banks, footballer, aged 81.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47196017

 

[unloadonme]

Rosemarie Bowe, model and actress, aged 86.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemarie_Bowe

 

[unloadonme]

The Venerable George Austin, Archdeacon of York, aged 87.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituar...austin-anglican-traditionalist-battles-1990s/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Austin_(priest)

 

[unloadonme]

Andrea Levy, author, aged 62.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46889988

 

[belamyi]

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Levy_Soler

 

[unloadonme]

Mary Oliver, poet, aged 83.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/15/mary-oliver-obituary

 

[belamyi]

I wonder whether there is a particular hell or hell circle for poetasters.

 

[unloadonme]

Roderick MacFarquhar, Sinologist and former MP, aged 88.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/obituaries/roderick-macfarquhar-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_MacFarquhar

 

[belamyi]

Roderick MacFarquhar, Sinologist and former MP, aged 88.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/obituaries/roderick-macfarquhar-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_MacFarquhar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_MacFarquhar

Well, it would seem that Anglos and Continentals have not quite the same notion of "sinologist".

 

[unloadonme]

Bruno Ganz, actor, 77.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47264709

 

[unloadonme]

Lady Falkender, Harold Wilson's secretary, supposed author of the infamous "Lavender List", at 86.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...r-harold-wilsons-righthand-woman-dies-aged-86

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcia_Falkender,_Baroness_Falkender

 

[belamyi]

Bruno Ganz, actor, 77.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-47264709

Finally someone famous.

 

[unloadonme]

Squadron Leader Dick Churchill, last surviving member of the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III, at the grand old age of 99.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-47257570

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Allied_airmen_from_the_Great_Escape

 

[rareboy]

Lee Radziwill at 85.

https://www.vogue.com/article/lee-radziwill-obituary

 

[KaraBulut]

Dr Mags Portman, an NHS doctor who was instrumental in making PrEP available in the UK.

Dr. Mags Portman, PrEP Pioneer Who Helped Thousands, Dies at 44

 

[unloadonme]

John Stalker, police officer, aged 79.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/17/john-stalker-obituary