Editor’s note: Former Los Angeles Blade News Editor Karen Ocamb reflects on the painful truth that is for too many in the LGBTQ+ community, especially those in their 40’s onward, a reality that they live.
While some celebrity parents in this modern era enthusiastically embrace and affirm their queer children- that was hardly ever the case in years past to the point of erasure. LOS ANGELES – LA Dodgers icon Tommy Lasorda has died at 93.
He was a character worthy of his Hall of Fame status. But he also exemplified the horrendous personal struggle gays and their families faced during the AIDS crisis.
When his beloved gay son Tommy Jr. died on June 3, 1991, Lasorda publicly lied about Tommy being gay or dying of AIDS and asked that all
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