GLR Review March-April 2019

winning documentary Ballot Measure 9 (2017) about the 1992 struggle against Oregon’s anti-LGBT campaign. She is survived by Sumitra Red Wing, to whom she was married. C HARLES S HIVELY , activist and writer, died on October 6th at age 79. He was remembered in the January-February 2018 issue. G ERALD K. “J ERRY ” W ELLER , activist and long-term survivor of AIDS, died on July 8th, at the age of 69. Born in Pittsburgh, he later settled in Oregon, where he founded one of the first gay organizations to receive tax-exempt status. In the mid-1980s, he was executive director of the Gay Rights National Lobby, predecessor to the Human Rights Campaign Fund. In his re- tirement he edited City Week , an Oregon newspaper focusing on LGBT issues. R OBERT W OOD , activist and United Church of Christ minister, died on August 19th at the age of 95. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he served in World War II and received a theology degree from Oberlin. While a minister in upstate New York in 1956, he wrote an article, “Spiritual Exercises,” for a gay physique magazine that addressed the dilemma of being Christian and gay. Four years later, he self-published the groundbreaking Christ and the Homosexual: Some Observations , urging Protes- tant theologians to rethink their anti-gay positions. He lived with his partner Hugh Coulter, who predeceased him. A RTISTS AND P ERFORMERS L AURA A GUILAR , photographer, died at 58 of complications from diabetes on April 18th. Born in San Gabriel, California, and a self-described Chicana, she chronicled the role of bars in the lives of L.A.’s working-class lesbians in the 1990s and pho- tographed well-known Latina lesbians. Some of her critically acclaimed works were of her own nude body, which she arranged as sculptures in desert landscapes. Her work has been featured in exhibitions nationwide, most recently at a retro- spective at East Los Angeles College. A NGELA B OWEN , dancer and dance teacher, died at age 82 on July 12th. Born in Boston, she began dancing at the relatively advanced age of fourteen. She came out after a heterosexual marriage ended and was active in the National Coalition of Black Lesbians and Gays. She received her doctorate from Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and taught at CSU–Long Beach. Her short story collection Out of the Blue: Aleta’s Sto- ries (2012) is based in part on her childhood. Her life was doc- umented in the 2016 film The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen . She is survived by her spouse, Jennifer Lynn Abod. M ARÍA I RENE F ORNÉS , playwright, died on October 30th at the age of 88. Born in Cuba, she arrived in NewYork as a teenager. She studied painting in Europe, where she saw the original pro- duction of Waiting for Godot , an inspiration for her later play- writing career. She earned eight Obies, including one for lifetime achievement in 1982, and was a cofounder of New York Theater Strategy. In her younger years, she was well- known for her romantic liaisons with writers Susan Sontag and Harriet Sohmers Zwerling. A documentary of her life, The Rest I Make Up , was released earlier this year. Much has been writ- ten about her life and works, notably The Theater of María Irene Fornés (1999). J OHN G LINES , playwright and producer, died on August 8th at age 84. Born in Santa Maria, California, he grew up in San Francisco and graduated fromYale. In 1976, he cofounded The Glines, dedicated to the development and production of the- atrical works exploring the gay experience. In 1983, he won a Tony as the producer of Torch Song Trilogy and became the first person to acknowledge a same- sex partner, Lawrence Lane, on an awards show. He is survived by Chaowarat Chiewvej, a for- mer Buddhist monk, to whom he was married. G EOFFREY H ENDRICKS , artist, died on May 12th at the age of 86. Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, he moved to New York after college and became a prominent member of Fluxus. He taught art at Rutgers for almost fifty years, where he became known as “Cloudsmith” for his many and varied renditions of the sky. His work was shown internationally, and he wrote sev- eral books on art and art history, including Between Earth & Sky: In Knowing One, One Will Know the Other (2003). He is survived by his husband, writer and archivist Sur Rodney. R OBERT I NDIANA (born Robert Clark), artist, died May 19th at age 89. Born in New Castle, Indiana, he moved to New York in the 1950s, living with other artists in the Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan. At that time, the late artist Ellsworth Kelly was his lover, though Indiana was not generally out. His sculpture LOVE (1964) is considered one of the most popular artworks of the 20th century, though some critics are skeptical as to whether Indiana shared the “cheery spirit” invoked by the art. V IVIAN M ATALON , Broadway director, died on August 15th at the age of 88. Born in Manchester, England, he began his act- ing career in the 1950s, having studied at Sanford Meisner’s Neighborhood Playhouse in NewYork and at the London Acad- emy of Music and Dramatic Art. He directed Noël Coward’s final stage appearance in London and later won a Tony for his revival of Morning’s at Seven in 1980. He directed regionally all over North America and collaborated on several productions with his partner, playwright and actor Stephen Temperley, to whom he was married.                                                  