Tag Archives: memorial

I Will Hold You Ten Times

As longtime readers know, there are four or five JMG entries that I repost every year. This is one of them. My dear friend Daniel Johnson, who threw the most kickass Groundhog’s Day birthday parties for himself, would have been 55 years old today. His was a life that burned brightly and I am illuminated still. Daniel Johnson, 1957-1997. I …

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NEW YORK CITY: Developers Overturn Winning Design For AIDS Memorial

Only hours after the winning design for a planned West Village AIDS memorial was announced, the developers of the site rejected that design for one of their own. Rudin Management, which won City Planning Commission approval on Jan. 23 for its plans for the former St. Vincent’s Hospital site, said it will work with the AIDS Memorial Park coalition, Community …

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NEW YORK CITY: “Infinite Forest” Design Chosen For West Village AIDS Memorial

The backers of the proposed AIDS memorial in Manhattan’s West Village have selected Infinite Forest as the winning design. The act of memorializing the AIDS epidemic with a physical gesture goes beyond remembering and honoring the dead. AIDS is not a war, nor a disease conquered. There are no definite dates or victims. In our design process, we emphasize the …

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San Francisco Marches For Harvey Milk

Sean Chapin sends us his video of yesterday’s Harvey Milk March in San Francisco. Milk was assassinated November 27, 1978.

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Transgender Day Of Rememberance

Sunday is the 13th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, which marks the brutal oppression and murders of trans people around the world. Hit the link for events and vigils all over the globe.

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TODAY: Frank Kameny Memorial

A memorial for late gay rights pioneer Frank Kameny takes place from 3pm-8pm today at Washington DC’s Carnegie Library, where Kameny’s body will lie in repose.

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AIDS Memorial For NYC?

The Queer History Alliance is petitioning the leaders of New York City for a memorial park honoring the city’s over 100,000 AIDS deaths. Via press release: The Queer History Alliance, a year-old grass roots non-profit dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of LGBT history, is leading a campaign to establish an AIDS Memorial Park and Learning Center at the campus …

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Evening View

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Remembering Jack Layton

Canada’s 22 Minutes (which is sort of like the Daily Show) has posted a montage of amusing moments with the late LGBT ally Jack Layton.

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Photo Of The Day – Jack Layton Tribute

In Toronto’s Phillips Square, hundreds of residents have created chalk tributes to the late progressive leader Jack Layton, who died of cancer last week at the age of 61. Layton was considered Canada’s most passionate and effective ally of the LGBT community and his passing has affected the gay political world like nothing in recent memory.

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Hugging Towers

One week after 9/11, I rescued the above unsigned painting from the front wall of the elementary school on my Chelsea street. It was one of hundreds affixed there in what doubtlessly was a group therapy project for the children. A violent rainstorm had just begun when I removed it and by morning the hundreds of other drawings lay ruined …

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New Yorkers Turn Out For David Kato Vigil And Protest At Uganda’s UN Mission

Despite the bone-chilling temperatures, a large crowd of LGBT activists, allies, and local politicians stood in the slush and snow tonight near the United Nations to memorialize slain Ugandan activist David Kato, who now stands accused being responsible for his own murder by the Ugandan police. Speakers included the head of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, gay …

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Thursday In Manhattan: Memorial Vigil For Slain Ugandan LGBT Activist David Kato

The International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission is organizing a memorial vigil for murdered Ugandan activist David Kato. The starting point of the procession is not yet determined, but attendees will finish at the Ugandan embassy. I’ll post more details as they are known.

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President Obama Speaks In Tucson

Obama’s recognition of the heroes begins at 12:00.

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Last Address

JMG reader Carol tips us to Last Address, a website that chronicles the last known homes and work of NYC-based artists lost to AIDS over the years. Among the notables listed so far: Robert Mapplethorpe, Keith Haring, Klaus Nomi, Vito Russo, Ethyl Eichelberger, and many others. The website is a side project by the makers of a short film by …

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Sam Storicks

As many of you know by now, JMG reader Sam Storicks died unexpectedly ten days ago at the age of 30. Sam was a popular member of the West Coast’s bear community and was a well-known DJ in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Two memorial services are planned. The first will be Wednesday, August 11th at 6pm at the San …

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Hundreds Gather At NYC Memorial For Murdered Gay Teen Jorge Mercado

Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered on the chilly Christopher Street Pier tonight to honor the memory of murdered gay teen Jorge Mercado and to call on the federal and Puerto Rican governments to charge his killer with a hate crime. A broad coalition of LGBT, Hispanic, and progressive groups were represented by numerous speakers who spoke in English and Spanish …

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Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, 19

Via Andres Duque at Blabbeando, the mother of murdered gay teen Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado shares her grief. (Mercado’s mother is pictured above with activist Pedro Julio Serrano. They are recreating Mercado’s signature salute, seen below.) “When my son told me he was gay, I told him, ‘Now, I love you more’. I want to tell the world that hatred …

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Remembering Bea Arthur

This afternoon Father Tony accompanied me to a memorial honoring Bea Arthur at Broadway’s Majestic Theater, one of the few houses I’d never been in as Phantom Of The Opera has been playing there for roughly 87 years. As one would expect and demand, it was a star-studded affair featuring Broadway royalty such as event emcee Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera, …

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Tonight

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