Transitions.DIED: Simon Nkoli Simon Tseko Nkoli (November 26 1957 – November 30 1998) was an anti-apartheid, gay rights and AIDS activist in South Africa. Nkoli was born in Soweto in a seSotho-speaking family. He grew up on a farm in the Free State and his family later moved to Sebokeng. , 41 pioneering South African gay rights activist, of complications from AIDS, November 30. DIED: Sylvia Sidney Sylvia Sidney (August 8, 1910 - July 1, 1999) was an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. Biography Early life Sidney, an only child, was born Sophia Kosow , 68, drag queen drag queen Female impersonator, gynemimetic Sexology A ♂ with ♀ affect–often 'overplayed'; a ♂ homosexual and ♀ wannabe, with ♂ genitalia; DQs may take hormones to ↑ breasts, and thus are hormonally, but not surgically known as the "bitch of Boston," of complications from diabetes, December 15. DIED: Stephen J. Smith, 34, founder of the ACT UP chapter in Washington, D.C., of complications from AIDS, November 16. APPOINTED: Robert Forbuss, 50, as the first openly gay chairman of the Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. chamber of commerce, December 5. APPOINTED: Openly gay Therese M. Stewart, 41, as president of the 9,000-member Bar Association of San Francisco, December 18. GRADUATED: Thomas Gilbert Kalt Jr., 26, the first openly gay police recruit in Philadelphia, from the city's police academy, December 15. |
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