Funerals and Memorials

February 9, 2024

A ‘Mother’ Is Mourned by the Queer New Yorkers She Left Behind

Hundreds gathered in a Greenwich Village church to pay their respects to the transgender activist Cecilia Gentili, who died this week at 52. The strumming of […]
November 28, 2023

Melania Trump and Other Living First Ladies Pay Tribute to Rosalynn Carter

Melania Trump and Michelle Obama were seated side by side. In any other circumstance it would have been a shocking sight. But it was only fitting […]
May 26, 2023

‘That’s Why I Picked a Younger Man’

My mother’s second husband wasn’t supposed to die before she did. And neither was I. The day after Thanksgiving, my mother called, worried I was going […]
July 21, 2022

At Ivana Trump’s Funeral, a Gold-Hued Coffin and the Secret Service

“People adored Ivana.” In death, as in life, her famous former husband loomed over Ivana Trump’s story. On Wednesday afternoon, when a funeral was held for […]
February 18, 2020

The iPhone at the Deathbed

After Robert Alexander died at 51 during heart surgery in June 2018, after he was taken from the hospital to the facility that would recover the […]
February 18, 2020

The iPhone at the Deathbed

After Robert Alexander died at 51 during heart surgery in June 2018, after he was taken from the hospital to the facility that would recover the […]
November 14, 2017

Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace

Advertisement CHICAGO — Quentin Harris lives in the Englewood neighborhood here, and each year he commissions designs by Big City Fashions as an instrumental part of […]