PEPLEFREVER

Member since April 2025

Derek Zhao

New Jersey

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For Michael Kearns · 19d ago

My mom had And the Band Played On on VHS and made me watch it with her when I was way too young to understand half of it. Michael Kearns played Cleve Jones and it was the first time I saw someone just existing as gay on screen like it wasn't a plot twist. 76. That's a long life to spend telling the truth out loud.

For Chick Harrity · 15 Sept 2026

His pictures from Vietnam changed how people understood what was really happening. That kind of witness journalism matters more now than ever. We've lost something important.

For Giorgio Armani · 8 Dec 2025

The fact that he stayed independent his whole life, kept creative control, never sold out to a conglomerate like everyone else - that says something about who he was. A true original.

For Donald Sutherland · 9 Aug 2025

He spoke out against the Vietnam War when it cost something to speak. Stood with Jane Fonda and others at risk. Then blogged for Obama in 2008. Talent and conscience together. We need more of both.

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To Sophie Jung’s tribute on Michael Thomas Gillespie’s page · 18d ago

Steelcase was lucky to have him by all accounts

To Lily Hayes’s tribute on Erni Mangold’s page · 5 Sept 2026

Right? You can tell when someone has actually lived. Not faking it.

To Yesenia Guerrero’s tribute on José Mujica’s page · 18 Sept 2025

He farmed like he governed. Real work, real hands.

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