Steven Davey (d. 2014.06.10)

Eldergay restaurant reviewer/musician/bicycle courier Steven Davey, who wrote for Toronto alternative newsweekly Now for almost two decades, “died suddenly” at age 64.

• Now coverage: News; remembrances

• Musical remembrance

• Obituary

Since I have a lot of eldergays and youngergays foaming with rage when I call a suicide a suicide, let me explain a journalistic convention. “Died suddenly” means committed suicide (in all cases). “Died unexpectedly” means exactly that and has no ulterior meaning. Steven Davey “died suddenly,” hence committed suicide.

Carl Goodman (d. 2014.01.05)

An early activist in gay rights and one of the original members of ACT UP (to the point of being considered a cofounder), eldergay Carl Goodman committed suicide in Bristol, Connecticut, at age 58.

• Michael Petrelis coverage (further)

Árpád Miklos (1967.09.11 to 2013.02.03)

Eldergay adult-film actor Árpád Miklos, né Péter Kozma, committed suicide at age 45.

• Wikipedia

• Out article

• My own tiny entry (including a link to a photo whose cutline Flickr censored)

Other gay-porn stars have committed suicide, but not in their mid-40s as Miklos did.

John Alan Lee (1933.08.24 to 2013.12.05)

Eldergay John Alan Lee planned and carried out his own suicide at age 80.

• Autobiographical Web site: “Here ends the history of my life”

• Xtra article

• Globe and Mail obituary

• CBC documentary

• Profile at Queer 50

Spencer Cox (1968.03.10 to 2012.12.18)

AIDS activist Spencer Cox presumptively killed himself by going off the HIV medications his activism brought into existence. Cox was a victim of “the post-terminal phase of HIV.”

• Wikipedia

• Times obituary

• Memorial service: Part 1; Part 2

• His articles for Treatment Action Group, including the papers “The Legacy of the Past: Gay Men in Mid-Life and the Impact of HIV/AIDS” and “Living on the Edge: Gay Men, Depression and Risk-Taking Behaviors”

• “The Riddled Death of Spencer Cox”

• “The Private War That Killed Spencer Cox”: “In retrospect you can read his work and break the private code written between the lines. It spells out HELP ME”

• His old comments at Gawker under username FrenchTwist40

I do not think it is seriously disputed that his actions amounted to suicide.