Died.SHERI O'DELL, 62, a longtime women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns. The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and activist who in 1989 organized what was then the largest pro-choice demonstration in Washington, D.C., of lung cancer lung cancer, cancer that originates in the tissues of the lungs. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States in both men and women. Like other cancers, lung cancer occurs after repeated insults to the genetic material of the cell. at her home in Takoma Park, Md., September 25. O'Dell, who also worked in journalism and government, is survived by her partner of 23 years, Janet Chapin. TOBIAS SCHNEEBAUM, 83, a gay writer, artist, and renowned explorer who in the 1950s lived among cannibals in the remote Amazon jungle and then wrote the recent acclaimed memoir Keep the River on Your Right Keep the River on your Right is a short memoir written by painter/anthropologist Tobias Schneebaum and published in 1969. It is an account of his journey into the jungles of Peru where he is accepted by "primitive" Indians and ultimately a tribe of cannibals. , of complications from Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism, degenerative brain disorder first described by the English surgeon James Parkinson in 1817. When there is no known cause, the disease usually appears after age 40 and is referred to as Parkinson's disease. , in Great Neck, N.Y., September 20. MARSHALL K. KIRK, 47, who coauthored the highly acclaimed book After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s, of unknown causes in his Brookline, Mass., apartment. The exact date of Kirk's death is not known. DONNA HANSON, 65, a Catholic lay leader who once advised Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (Latin: Ioannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II, Polish: Jan Paweł II) born Karol Józef Wojtyła to reach out to gays and lesbians and other minority groups, of cancer, in Spokane, Wash., September 23. |
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