Noted Activist Rodger McFarlane Dies

Rodger McFarlane, the noted activist and author whose work ranged from ACT-UP to Gay Men's Health Crisis to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, has taken his own life in New Mexico due to failing health. McFarlane had been suffering great pain caused by heart and back problems. Most recently McFarlane was executive director of the Gill Foundation, a group which funds many LGBT causes. GLAAD has posted a joint statement from Tim Gill, Larry Kramer and many other LGBT leaders. McFarlane appears in the currently playing film Outrage, in which Michelangelo Signorile notes he made a "crucial contribution to the film, lucidly describing the closet and the right-wing self-loathing politicians in power who have done much damage -- and with all the humor for which Rodger was always known."

(Photo via Michelangelo Signorile)