Dr. Richard Green, an American psychiatrist and lawyer who helped lead the fight to declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder, died April 6 in London. He was 82.
Ernie Asten, the retired fourth generation patriarch of the Cliff's Variety legacy, died March 15, after a 14-year battle with Parkinson's and multiple systems atrophy, or MSA. He was 71.
Angus J. Whyte, a gay man whose administrative and financial acumen helped guide the San Francisco LGBT Community Center project when it was in its infancy, died March 6 in Palm Springs, California. He was 81.
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi died Friday, February 22, leaving a void in an office that is dogged in its representation of indigent clients. He was 59.