Stephen J. McCarthy, former board member of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, greets U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters at an event Nov. 22 honoring Morris Kight, an LGBT trailblazer who died in 2003. In background is Michael Weinstein, AIDS Healthcare Foundation president.

Photo by Lorenzo Gomez

Wave Staff Report

HOLLYWOOD — The AIDS Healthcare Foundation hosted a remembrance and inurnment ceremony for LGBT legend Morris Kight Nov. 22 at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The event came three days after what would have been Kight’s 106th birthday.

Kight died in 2003 at the age of 83 after a prolific career that achieved many of the civil rights he sought and fought so valiantly for.

The longtime Los Angeles resident was born on Nov. 19, 1919, in Comanche County, Texas. Kight graduated from Texas Chr

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