He's 100 years old and still looks great.
The heroic World War II veteran who bravely advocated for gay rights in the "don't ask, don't say" era wore a stylish rainbow hat and matching birthday cake last month. celebrated his 100th birthday.
Rupert "Twink" Star — an LGBTQ activist who bravely earned his Bronze Star in the Battle of the Bulge — with his pals at his home in Columbus, Ohio, on July 16. I threw a birthday party. .
At the party, his energetic 100-plus-year-old man, wearing a gorgeously decorated pink outfit glasses and a hat with a rainbow, sat in a wheelchair and had a rainbow-colored cake. I was munching on
with all these friends."Star told NBC affiliate WCMH.
"A very good group of friends. I can't believe they invested their time and energy in celebrating my birthday and singing Happy Birthday to me. It's overwhelming," he said.
Starr grew up in Mount Stirling, a small farming village in Ohio, and joined the Army in January 1943. Battle of the Bulge in December 1944VA He was reportedly on the news.
The following year Starr was captured by the Nazis and in Germany he served four months as a prisoner of war before serving in 1945. released in the year. He later won a Bronze He Star.
After being honorably discharged in 1954, Starr fell in love with his interior designer Alan Wingfield, and the two dated his 53rd until Wingfield's death in 2007, at the age of 80. We were together for years. Opposing the "don't ask, don't say" policy of insulting homosexuals in the U.S. military in his 2004 documentary Courage Under Fire by Patrick Sammon.
Starr told the Associated Press at the time that he was named Grand His Marshal for his Parade of Gay Pride in Columbus in 2009. I am very proud to have played my part in making our country what it is today.
He has become an outspoken advocate for his LGBTQ rights, including appearing in his 2014 film by local nonprofit Stonewall His Columbus. I was.
At his 100th birthday party, he grinned and said, I want to do it every year.
