Have you ever heard of Richard Roehm passed away today?

Jiro said:
is he an important deaf figure or....?
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You can find his youtubes to learn a bit about him.
 
In Memory of Richard Roehm

There are people who will say that Richard Roehm's supportive gestures to James MacRyland Crary were misplaced or typical of a controversial anti-hero himself. In answer, let me tell you that it meant the difference to me between survival with dignity and succumbing to despair. Richard Roehm was the most excellent person I knew in the hardest moment of my life.

On the day that public works on behalf of others no longer merit mention, on the day that good will is regarded as dust, on that day only where there is no longer a place for a kind word about those who redeem us with their courage will there be no place for memory of Richard Roehm. When those who labor thanklessly are no longer considered blessed. Even then I would insist that in the hardest moment of my life Richard was there for me.

He did this though powerless when by contrast many powerful voices distained.

The loss is sad for me. Richard had recently offered me lodging and sounded me out bravely on what has transpired.
 
That's what I thought, the activist selling water from nearby spring. If that is correct, oh okay.

Royale said:
He used to be a member of this forum and he was banned from this forum for a long time.

He was nothing but a nuisance.
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If you care, its confirmed and announced on Deafnewspaper.com

And yup, it is Nesmuth,
 
Richard was a man in California who was supportive of me and offered me an apartment if I decided I couldn't take Seattle anymore and did not want to move back to Pittsburgh, but I haven't mentioned him much largely because he supported my AIDS investigation and was appalled that nobody took me more seriously. Accordingly I thought of him as a very unique and treasured friend. When I was homeless occasionally he would fling me letters that were so ennebriating and of such strength of heart that I picked myself back up during my lows, but since I know how people feel about that matter and what it has done to me I haven't made it a point to keep anyone advised about him. He was my age and ran the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center. A controversial kid, because he would try to hardsell contraptions occasionally, there are a few articles about him in the Orange County Register basically saying, "This kid makes some of his mailing list uncomfortable." But nothing I have ever read against him convinced me he was anything other than gregarious. He had just gotten off the line with me by a matter of a few days telling me I could join him in California this April if I wanted to, but I heard about his death through this Chat Room of the Deaf Community that I've joined and like several other people who knew him, some of them from this Chat Room, where he was finally banned for being controversial, I wanted to believe it was one of his practical jokes, but it wasn't and his mother evidently is very beaten up by the news so I'm just one of the kids who knew him and liked him holding vigil and expressing my disappointment.
 
Yep, it confirmed that Richard Roehm passed away due to a heart attack. He was intelligent? Oh, yeah. Was he nutty? Oh, definitely. He was a bitter man who against all Domestic Violence agencies. Even his ex wife was afraid of him. Blah blah.

I wish he finds some peace within himself. Oh, well.
 
Good riddance to him! Because He took Deaf porn actors ( male and female) out of any websites to his own website to expose who is Deaf porn actors. I warned everyone doesn't create "deaf" on the tag or he can find you who played in the amateur porn movies. Now he is gone! We are free to do whatever we do for the adult entertainment.
I did ask him once why he did this on his own website. He said he did this to create the trouble in the deaf community. I told him Karma will hit him one day. I am right.
 
Oddball said:
Yep, it confirmed that Richard Roehm passed away due to a heart attack. He was intelligent? Oh, yeah. Was he nutty? Oh, definitely. He was a bitter man who against all Domestic Violence agencies. Even his ex wife was afraid of him. Blah blah.

I wish he finds some peace within himself. Oh, well.
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I am pretty sure I had a conversation with him about a year ago. If so....yeah that guy was totally nuts.
 
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