Florida LGBT+ Leader Terry DeCarlo Dies At 57
February 9, 2020Terry DeCarlo, one of Florida’s leading LGBT+ activists, has died at age 57 of complications from stage 4 neck and face cancer.
His husband Bill Huelsman posted on Facebook that “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to post this. But I need to let everyone know that I lost the love of my life last night. The cancer was just too aggressive for treatment.”
DeCarlo served as executive director of The Centre, “an LGBT+ education and advocacy nonprofit in Orlando. He was a leading voice for the community after the mass shooting that killed 49 people at the PULSE nightclub in 2016,” ‘WLRN’ reports.
Brandon Wolf, who survived the PULSE nightclub shooting and is now working for LGBT+ rights group Equality Florida said about this loss that “He was the glue that was holding us together, at a time when the community felt like we might fall apart.
“He played an intimate role in what resources our community had, how our voices were uplifted and amplified. He kept the spotlight on marginalized communities. … It feels like we lost that radiant joy that he brought.”
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