Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor, died early today from congestive heart failure at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. She was surrounded by her four children.
Taylor was 79.
Taylor was an ally to the LGBT community, and worked tirelessly on behalf of AIDS-related charities and fund raising. She helped start the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) after the death of her former co-star and friend, Rock Hudson.
She also created her own AIDS foundation, the Elizabeth Taylor Aids Foundation. By 1999, she had helped to raise an estimated $50 million to fight the disease.
Taylor won two Academy Awards, both for Best Actress — for “Butterfield 8″ (1960) and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (1966) — and in 1992 was awarded the Jean Herscholt Humanitarian Academy Award for her work fighting AIDS.
She was hospitalized six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, “a condition with which she had struggled for many years,” according to a statement from her publicist.
In addition to her four children, Taylor is survived by 10 grand children and four great grandchildren.
May she rest in peace.(http://www.lgbtqnation.com)
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