Died
Advocate, The, Nov 8, 2005
SHERI O'DELL, 62, a longtime women's rights activist who in 1989 organized what was then the largest pro-choice demonstration in Washington, D.C., of lung cancer 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, of complications from 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 to reach out to gays and lesbians and other minority groups, of cancer, in Spokane, Wash., September 23.
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