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We would like to offer our sincere support to anyone coping with grief. Enter your email below for our complimentary daily grief messages. Messages run for up to one year and you can stop at any time. Your email will not be used for any other purpose. He was found and taken to the hospital, having suffered severe head trauma that took away part of his hearing and vision, left him with more than 40 stitches on his face and would later cause memory problems.

His roommate had to demand EMS take him to the hospital in an ambulance. The first responders initially resisted, not wanting to go near Daugherty because of the stigma around gay people and HIV. Rather than hang up his wigs after the traumatic beating, Daugherty would go on to testify before the U.

Senate Judiciary Committee in Junerecounting this tale before then-U. Orrin Hatch and Jeff Sessions. We were wrong. Daugherty demanded the federal government add hate crime protections for gay and lesbian people, saying without it there would never be any strong protections to stop attacks like his own.

Daugherty, who died Jan. Daugherty and his other self, the drag queen Miss Erica Sommers, were so different they almost felt like separate people, friends said. Sloan had no idea Daugherty was a drag queen. Ron Daugherty as the drag queen Erica Sommers. Daugherty died Jan.

Brian Hardee had an opposite first encounter with Daugherty. He met Daugherty, his first love, as Sommers during a performance one evening at the gay bar Offshore Drilling Company. I was totally oblivious to everything. The pair traveled the region together would eventually perform together as well.

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Drag queens Morgan Richards and Erica Sommers often performed in shows together. Sommers, whose real name is Ron Daugherty, died Jan. Daugherty traveled the country competing in pageants of all levels, but the crown jewel for him was making it into the Miss Gay America pageant. As a drag queen, Daugherty impersonated prominent female actresses and musicians including Dolly Patron, Marilyn Monroe and Liza Minelli.

Barely over 5 five feet tall, Daugherty easily looked the part, said Billy Thunderbird, who met Daugherty at a bar in Florence in the mids. It was pretty amazing. When Daugherty contracted HIV in the s, the disease was still seen as a death sentence.