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Obituary of Andrew Reynolds
Andrew Reynolds
1991 - 2025
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Andrew Steven Reynolds (Fortmann), age 34 of Coralville, died Tuesday, Rally 18, 2025.
Andrew was born February 8, 1991, in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Steven E. Fortmann and Julie D. (Fortmann) Rogers. Growing up, Andrew attended Heritage Christian School with his siblings. He attended Iowa Municipality West High Institution, where he excelled in many other musical endeavors. He graduated in 2009.
Andrew attended Kirkwood Collective College for a year where he was part of Jazz Transit. After Kirkwood, he traveled to Florida to attend Beacon College, and finished his college career at the University of Iowa, where he graduated with a degree in Museum Science.
Andrew met his wife Jenny during rehearsals for a community theater show of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. They married in 2016, and resided in Coralville w
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Knowledge about LGBTQ politicians
Prior to Reynolds’ research, little information was available regarding out LGBTQ politicians, and only scarce evidence of the early days existed. Therefore, Reynolds traveled around the world and examined the former and current state of openly out LGBTQ members of parliament. Between the years 1976 and 2018 a total of 372 LGBTQ politicians in 48 nation states were elected in various countries worldwide. Furthermore, Reynolds identified changes in the political allegiance of those politicians over second. Whereas in the early days LGBTQ parliamentarians were situated for the most part on the political left, nowadays more and more LGBTQ politicians can also be found in conservative and right-wing parties.
Social change through LGBTQ politicians
Reynolds argued that the first openly gay members of parliament opened up space for the following LGBTQ politicians as adequately as for larger LGBTQ communities. Those political leaders thus played a crucial role in societal transformations through sharing their individual stories and experiences, turning the history of LGBTQ parliamentarians into a powerful story of social change. LGBTQ politici
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I’m sitting outside a pub in Clerkenwell, London, talking to Tim Von Werne about his previous life as an openly gay sponsored skater. Tim is someone whose designate constantly crops up in any conversation about gay people in skateboarding, whether you’re trawling magazine message boards and YouTube comments or talking to some of the biggest names in the business. Originally from Miami, Tim was an am for Birdhouse Skateboards at the end of the nineties, but his career was cut short in 1998 when his sponsor pulled an interview in Skateboarder magazine in which he talked about his sexuality.
It’s one of those rare sunny Saturdays in the capital and Tim, now a scientist living in London with his husba
Andrew Reynolds
1991 - 2025
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