|
|
|
Broadcasting legend Larry King dies at 87
2021-01-23
|
|
This article shared 1357 times since Sat Jan 23, 2021
|
|
Broadcasting icon Larry King has died at age 87, CNN.com reported.
King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted. No cause of death was given, but CNN had earlier reported he was hospitalized with COVID-19.
A longtime nationally syndicated radio host, from 1985 through 2010 he was a nightly fixture on CNN (on Larry King Live), where he won many honors, including two Peabody awards.
King conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews, talking with everyone from the Dalai Lama to the actor Marlon Brando (who famously kissed King on the lips after their interview) to Lady Gaga.
HuffPost noted that King was a staunch LGBTQ-rights advocate. In 2014, he said on The Rubin Report, "We have a Black president. Yes, we'll have a gay president; yes, we'll have a female president. Life is changing, and the politician will have to change along with it, or lose."
King was married eight times to seven women. He had five children, nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren at the time of his death. |
 |
|
|
This article shared 1357 times since Sat Jan 23, 2021
|
|
|
| ARTICLES YOU MIGHT LIKE |
|---|
| 
|  | SHOWBIZ 'Our America,' Randy Rainbow, Melissa Etheridge, 'Drag Race,' VINCINT
2021-06-13
ABC Owned Television Stations announced that the first two-episodes of the Our America: Who I'm Meant to Be docuseries are now available on its 32 connected TV apps across streaming platforms Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, ...
| 
| | TELEVISION 'Love, Victor' activation coming to Chicago
2021-06-12
Marking the second season premiere of its show Love, Victor as well as Pride month, Hulu is "honoring and amplifying the many different shades of love and self-expression that the LGBTQ+ community embodies," according to a ...
| 
| | Fifth annual Pulse Nightclub memorial in downstate Illinois on June 12
2021-06-09
On Saturday, June 12, at 7 p.m. in Bloomington, Illinois, local organizations will remember the 49 lives lost at the Pulse Nightclub in 2016 with their fifth annual outdoor memorial service, according to a joint press ...
| 
| | SHOWBIZ Todrick Hall, LGBTQIA+ podcast, Pride TV programs, '80s music
2021-06-06
Todrick Hall is celebrating Pride with the release of his new album, Femuline, on June 8, a press release noted. The album's lead single, "Boys In The Ocean," is described as "an irresistible funk jam." Femuline ...
| 
| | NBC Out releases annual #Pride30 list
2021-06-05
--From a press release - NBC Out, part of NBCNews.com, has released its annual #Pride30 list, recognizing members of the LGBTQ community around the world who are making a difference. This year's list honors 30 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer ...
| 
| | WTTW celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month with special content
2021-06-05
--From a press release - WTTW recently released its schedule of special programming in celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month. Highlights include: Stonewall Uprising: American Experience Sunday, June 13 from 10:00 pm-12:00 am In an era when homosexuality was illegal, ...
| 
| | New queer comedy series revisits the women's bathroom
2021-06-02
Gal Pal Presents recently premiered a new comedy web series, titled Stalled, which aims to capture the gay nightclub women's restroom scene that you may have experienced, but may have flushed out of memory. The five-episode ...
| 
| | Becoming Johanna to air on WTTW
2021-05-31
--From a press release - Chicago, IL: Becoming Johanna, a compelling story that follows the struggles transgender teens face every day, airs Friday, June 25th at 8:30pm on WTTW (11.1 channel). The film follows Johanna, a 16-year-old transgender Latina, as she ...
| 
| | Billy Masters
2021-05-31
"I will never trust pants again!"—Lil Nas X on his wardrobe malfunction on Saturday Night Live. To see the incident—and Lil's commentary—check out BillyMasters.com. We have a Memorial Day tradition ...
| 
| | SHOWBIZ 'Red Hot' album, 'Drag Race,' 'L Word,' Qveen Herby, Lee Daniels
2021-05-30
The Red Hot organization, which raises funds to fight HIV/AIDS, announced Red Hot + Free—a mixtape of dance beats, electro grooves and global anthems, a press release noted. Out July 2 and helmed by producer-provocateur Bill ...
| 
| | NATIONAL Press secretary, LGBTQ passings, poll results, Pride items
2021-05-30
Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made history as the first gay woman to lead a White House press briefing in the James S. Brady Briefing Room, and the second Black woman to do so, LGBTQ Nation ...
| 
| | Remembering Kay "Tobin" Lahusen
2021-05-29
Much of LGBTQ history, and history in general, has been lost. Even after photography was invented, the lens (and pen) was often directed subjectively, documenting what the mainstream media thought were the significant moments of the ...
| 
| | White Party organizer Jeffrey Sanker dies
2021-05-29
Gay circuit-party impresario Jeffrey Sanker—owner of the Los Angeles-based White Party Entertainment company—died May 28 after a long battle with liver cancer, the Los Angeles Blade reported. The Blade said ...
| 
| | PASSAGES Kay "Tobin" Lahusen, a founding mother of the gay rights movement, 91
2021-05-26
Kay Lahusen, 91, died in gentle hospice care at Chester County Hospital on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, after a brief illness. She was born in Cincinnati in January 1930 and as an infant was adopted and ...
| 
| | NATIONAL Victory Institute, activists pass on, Mikayla Miller, Nina West
2021-05-23
On May 2, The Victory Institute inducted 21 leaders to its newly formed LGBTQ Victory Hall of Fame, according to PrideSource.com. Twenty members were inducted as part of the founding class while U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin ...
| | |
|
|
