Gay Publicist Howard Bragman dies

Did not know that he was ill. RIP.

Toothy tall Elex remembers his friend.

Howard was his "mentor"? Explains all those photos of Elex and his model-looking "friends."

So what was he: L, G, B, T, Q or +?

His niece is Lizzie Caplan

Didn't some other gay publicist die recently that was featured on DL?

This queen will be forgotten just like the last one.

Who will celebs use to come out now?

[quote]Didn't some other gay publicist die recently that was featured on DL?

Publicist Jeff Ballard died a few weeks ago.

So, spin doctor?

On his gravestone, it will say, "He PR-ed things."

All My Gay Publicists Are Dead

He sometimes arranged prominent coming-outs, including that of Chely Wright.

DIdnt do shit for me!

[quote]DIdnt do shit for me!—Wendy Williams, holed up in her apt

Did you hire him?

Howard only helped those people who hired him to provide his services.

If you didn't hire him to help you, he could have cared less if you were holed up in your apartment.

Is he the guy who changed his last name from Sizemeat to Bragman?

Very handsome man.

He was hot. Total daddy.

Are PR people famous in Hollywood? Or only among other PR people?

How will I come out now?

That NYC weatherman who did porn livestreams has an RIP Howard tribute in his Instagram stories.

Appropriate surname for a publicist.

So weird… was chatting with him on Scruff less than a month ago. And then he died.

Was he a gay?

He seemed like a nice man.

He looks sort of heavy to me.

I was at a party at his house, maybe 15 years ago? Don't remember what the party was for, but I do remember Jane Lynch was there playing an acoustic guitar set. I also remember being madly in lust with Howard. Big, tall, sweet and handsome. Just my type then and now.

Sad.

Did he have the aids?

R18 honey, you have about 800 other gay publicists to help you come out

Oh no!

What a loss.

So very young.

NYT obit.

Howard Bragman, Publicist Who Helped Clients Come Out, Dies at 66

He was often called in to do damage control for celebrities and others in a negative spotlight, but his specialty was working with gay stars, athletes and others.

He helped Dick Sargent, who some two decades after he played the husband of Elizabeth Montgomery’s character on the classic sitcom “Bewitched” announced on National Coming Out Day in 1991 that he was gay.

In 2009, when Meredith Baxter, who as a star of “Family Ties” in the 1980s had been one of America’s best-known TV moms, started getting inquiries from the tabloid press after going on a lesbian cruise, her manager advised her to contact Mr. Bragman, who gave her blunt advice.

“We have to take control of the story or you will have no say in it at all,” she recalled him saying in her autobiography, “Untied: A Memoir of Family, Fame and Floundering” (2011). He booked her on NBC’s “Today,” where she told the world she was a lesbian. Mr. Bragman, she said, gave her the courage to go through with the interview.

“He said as soon as it’s done, you’ll be free,” Ms. Baxter told NPR. “And we walked out that door of NBC studios in December, and it was the most freeing thing I had ever experienced.”

Ballard, Bergman, and Bragman are the trio of publicists who've died recently.

^^^^ Can you say that in Rosiland Russel's harried voice?

Variety reported his other clients included Cameron Diaz, Paula Abdul, Stevie Wonder, Sharon Osbourne, Monica Lewinsky, Joe Manganiello, Anna Kendrick, Terrence Howard, Ricki Lake and Melissa Rivers.

He also contributed a $1 million endowment to establish the Howard Bragman Coming Out Fund on the facilities of the University of Michigan, which include the Spectrum Center, a LGBTQIA+ support center, which was formed in 1970. In announcing the fund, he shared, “As a fat, Jewish, gay kid in Flint, Michigan, I always felt like a Martian. … This campus allows you to be yourself. It allows you to spread your wings in the way you want to spread your wings. I tell people, ‘Stay strong, even when it hurts.’ And, I promise, it hurts sometimes. But, there are places that will help you ease the pain sometimes. That’s what the Spectrum Center did. That’s what Michigan did.”

Bragman continued: “I don’t care how liberal the school is. I don’t care how accepting and loving your parents are. I don’t care how ‘woke’ the times are. Coming out is this most personal of journeys, and it’s a challenging journey,” he said. “It’s so important for students to know they are not alone and that the Spectrum Center is there for them. … It was founded only two years after Stonewall, which we look at as the birth of the modern LGBTQIA+ rights movement. So the center is not a flash in the pan. … I want to assure that other people get that same access that I had; life-changing, life-saving access.”

[quote] Was he a gay?

He was a unicorn R22.

[Quote] a fat, Jewish, gay

Are you sure he was Jewish?

R34, that was cool of him.

Well the 4th, or is it 5th, Hollywood publicist just DIED before reaching 70.