2005 Year in Review
Q-NOTES • DECEMBER 31. 2005
2005 sees noteworthy passages
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June 28
Activist and Pride founder Brenda Howard
Brenda Howacd,
59, died of cancer in
Queens, N.Y. A bisexu
al activist and sex-
positive feminist who
was an important fig
ure in the modern
LGBT rights move
ment, Howard was a
leader of the Gay
Composer David Liberation Front
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openly gay in a ^ay Acti-
time when society vists Alliance in
was intolerant. the early post-
Stonewall era and a founder of the New
York Area Bisexual Network.
She was also known as the “the
Mother of Pride,” for her work in coor
dinating the first month anniversary
rally and then the “Christopher Street
Liberation Day March” to commemo
rate the first year anniversary of the
Stonewall Rebellion. Howard also
originated the idea for a week-long
series of events around Pride Day
which became the genesis of the
annual LGBT Pride celebrations that
are now held around the world every June.
July 1
Singer Luther Vandross
R&B artist Luther Vandross died from
complications related to a debilitating
stroke he suffered in April 2003. He was 54
years old.
Despite his illness, his album “Dance
With My Father,” sold nearly a million copies
in its first month of release The following
year, the album won three Grammy Awards,
including song of the
year.
His eighth and final
Grammy came for best
R&B performance by a
duo — the remake of
“The Closer I Get to
You,” sung with
Beyonce Knowles.
Vandross died at JFK
Medical Center in
Edison, N.J. surrounded
by family, friends and a
medical support team.
Little is known about the performer’s personal
life — he remained closeted throughout it and
refused to speak about his sexuality publicly.
Aug. 7
News Anchor Peter Jennings
Nearly four months to the day after he
announced in an evening newscast that he
had been diagnosed with lung cancer,
longtime ABC “World News Tonight”
anchor Peter Jennings died. He was 67.
Jennings made no secret of his support
for the LGBT community. Following the
legalizing of same-sex marriage in
Massachusetts in 2004, Jennings com
pared same-sex marriage licenses to racial
desegregation, citing the 50th anniversary
of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling:
“1\vo of our main stories tonight are about
the struggle for rights and inclusion — one
of them in the 20th century, the other right
The mother of the modem
day civil rights movement:
Rosa Parks
From 'Midge' to
'Miss Ellie'
actress Barbara
Bel Geddes was
a gay camp kon.
now in the 21st,” He announced.
Aug. 8
Actress Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes was something of
an icon in the gay community — for her
role as “Miss Ellie” on the the TV series
“Dallas” and as Midge in the Alfred
Hitchcock film “Vertigo.” Eighty-two-years
old, Geddes died of lung cancer at her
home in Northeast Harbor, Maine.
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Civil Rights activist
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks changed
the world in December
1955 when she refused
to give up her seat on a
bus to a white man in
Mon^omery, Ala.
Her arrest trig
gered a 381-day boy
cott of the bus system
by blacks that was
organized by a 26-
year-old Baptist min
ister, the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. The
boycott led to a court
ruling desegregating public transportation
in Montgomery, but it wasn’t until the 1964
Civil Rights Act that all public accommoda
tions nationwide were desegregated.
Nov. 2
Graham Payn
Graham Payn, an actor and singer who
was Noel Coward’s longtime companion,
died in Switzerland at the age of 87.
Born in South Africa
in 1918, Payn moved to
England in 1929. At the
age of 14 he first audi
tioned for the Noel
Coward revue, “Words
and Music.”
In 1945 Coward
wrote a leading role for
Payn in the show “Sigh
No More.” The produc
tion marked the begin
ning of their profes
sional and personal
relationship, which
lasted until the play
wright’s death in 1973.
Nov. 17
Actress Sheree North
Sheree North, who aged gracefully
from a platinum blond bombshell in the
1950s to older character roles in television
productions including
“The Mary lyler Moore
Show” and “Seinfeld,”
died of complications
from surgery. She was
72.
North initially was
groomed as a glamor girl
who could substitute for
Screen siren the often unreliable
Sheree Marilyn Monroe, and did
'I Monroe m
Monroe's ’ ^^5 film “How to Be
replacement. Very, Very Popular.”
Meet you on
the other side:
Graham Payn,
Noel Cowara's
longtime com
panion died at
age 87.