Died.LAUREL HESTER Lt. Laurel Hester (August 15, 1956 – February 18, 2006) was a lesbian New Jersey police officer who rose to national attention with her deathbed appeal for the extension of pension benefits to domestic partners. , 49, a cancer-stricken police officer in New Jersey who fought for and won pension benefits for her partner, February 18. JOEL DORIUS Raymond Joel Dorius (January 4 1919 - February 14 2006) was an academic and a professor of literature at Yale University, Smith College , San Francisco State University and University in Hamburg, Germany. Dorius was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. , 87, one of three professors forced out of Smith College in 1960 for possession of gay pornography but later exonerated, of cancer in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , mid February. MOSS MABRY Costume designer Moss Mabry (1918 - 2006) started off designing costumes for his high school plays, but actually studied mechanical engineering at the University of Florida. He later went to Hollywood to attend art school, eventually signing a contract with Warner Brothers. , 87, a gay Academy Award-nominated costume designer who dressed Doris Day and helped fashion the style of movies such as Giant, following a long illness, in Oceanside, Calif., January 25. |
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