R.I.P. to a Gay Comedian... Scott Kennedy

Last week, a gay comedian died in his sleep. Scott Kennedy was funny guy that didn't need to overdress to prove he was gay.

He was an every man's gay. Something you don't see in the gay media or on TV. I just learned of his death yesterday, too bad none of the gay websites talked about him. I guess he wasn't cute enough or in a jockstrap.

Too bad, right? Luckily, Dave Holmes wrote a great piece about him in HuffPo.

Scott Kennedy was a brilliant comic who had all the trappings of success: a Comedy Central special, late-night appearances, a busy road schedule. But just as his career began to heat up, so did our military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. So he put his stateside career on the back burner to entertain the troops through several USO tours. Then he organized his own touring show, Comics Ready to Entertain, because -- get this -- the USO wouldn't take him to dangerous-enough military bases. Over the course of more than 50 trips to Afghanistan and Iraq, in up to five shows a day, he gave our men and women overseas a bit of the love they sorely needed. "You have to give them a little bit of home," Scott said at the time. "They have to feel normal once in a while."

Through most of his career, Scott Kennedy was also an openly gay comedian. With his ever-present football jersey, tattered ball cap and spare tire, he didn't look the part, and he used that to his advantage; when he addressed his sexuality onstage, it was usually toward the end of his set, after a new audience thought they had him figured out. Scott defied expectations and broadened minds. He was an out gay comedian in a time when it was not at all easy to be an out gay comedian, and often in places where it was not at all easy to be an out gay comedian, for example in Iraq and Afghanistan, or in front of our troops at the height of "don't ask, don't tell," or, hell, in a comedy club.

Please read the rest of this piece.

Rest in Peace, Scott.

Etta James has Died

Music legend Etta James has passed away in a hospital in Riverside, California.

Her song "At Last" is one of her most well-known and beloved treasures. And there has been talks of a movie about her life. She was a true singer and artist, Etta will be greatly missed.

She was 73.

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Christopher Hitchens has Died

A legendary writer and personality died last night. Christopher Hitchens passed away from cancer.

Vanity Fair has a good memoriam    

Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring of 2010, just after the publication of his memoir, Hitch-22, and began chemotherapy soon after. His matchless prose has appeared in Vanity Fair since 1992, when he was named contributing editor.
“Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic,” 

Hitchens wrote nearly a year ago in Vanity Fair, but his own final labors were anything but: in the last 12 months, he produced for this magazine a piece on U.S.-Pakistani relations in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death, a portrait of Joan Didion, an essay on the Private Eye retrospective at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a prediction about the future of democracy in Egypt, a meditation on the legacy of progressivism in Wisconsin, and a series of frank, graceful, and exquisitely written essays in which he chronicled the physical and spiritual effects of his disease. At the end, Hitchens was more engaged, relentless, hilarious, observant, and intelligent than just about everyone else—just as he had been for the last four decades.

Loleatta Holloway has Died

The Godmother of Gay music has passed away.

Loleatta Holloway died yesterday from an illness. She was 64 years old. I LOVE Loleatta! Her voice drove songs to the highest peak for me. I have so many of her songs on my ipod and I live for her voice on a regular basis.

To hear this news hurts, it truly does. But we have her music and that voice. So I wish her peace and share my top Loleatta songs y'all.

Dreaming


Love Sensation


Like a Prayer


We're getting Stronger


Shout it the Top

Love you, Loleatta!!

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Rue McClanahan has Died

Rue McClanahan has passed away.

PEOPLE reports:

"She passed away at 1 a.m. this morning," her manager, Barbara Lawrence, tells PEOPLE. She had a massive stroke." McClanahan, who played Blanche Deveraux in the beloved sitcom, Golden Girls, had suffered a minor stroke earlier this year while recovering from bypass surgery. Lawrence added that at the time of her death Thursday, McClanahan “had her family with her. She went in peace.”

Rest in Peace

Gary Coleman has Died

Gary Coleman has died. Here is the recent information:

Former child TV star Gary Coleman is on life support and unconscious after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage at his home, his family said Friday.

Coleman suffered the hemorrhage Wednesday at his Santaquin home, 55 miles south of Salt Lake City.

Utah Valley Regional Medical Center released the statement on behalf of Coleman's family.

It also says Coleman, 42, was conscious and lucid until midday Thursday, when his condition worsened and he slipped into unconsciousness. Coleman was then placed on life support.

Now, he is passed on. My heart goes out to the family and friends of Gary,

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Dixie Carter has Died

Oh My!!!!

ET breaks news that actress Dixie Carter, best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on the hit sitcom "Designing Women," has died. She was 70 years old.

"This has been a terrible blow to our family," her husband Hal Holbrook tells ET. "We would appreciate everyone understanding that this is a private family tragedy. Thank you."

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Corey Haim has Died

This is so sad.

My childhood star, Corey Haim has died from a possible accidental overdose.

Rest in Peace, Corey.

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Mrs. Horton from Days of Our Lives has died

Man, this is sad.

Frances Reid, known as the main mama, Alice Horton on "Days of Our Lives" has died. She was 95 years old.

Here's a great moment of her

Zelda Rubinstein has Died.

Sad news. Zelda has passed on.

She has been struggling for awhile. But now she can finally rest.

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One of the True Dungeon Masters Died

Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons, died peaceful on Tuesday. He was 61.

He and Gary Gygax created Dungeons & Dragons in 1974. They gave us every type of warrior and mythical creature you could think of; causing millions of folks to stay up very late and search for an adventure.

I'm sure some of us played D & D somewhere in our lives. I remember playing a couple of times in college and realizing there were other fantasy freaks like me.

He will be missed.