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Old 03-08-2012, 03:25 PM
 
Location: Volcano
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The linked article didn't say how the injury happened. Do the police believe somebody hurt him?
No, that seems to be only a rumor that started here. I've seen no reference to that in the news reports.

Leslie fell and injured his head a year or so ago. His health had not been good since. A few days ago he apparently fell again and reinjured himself.
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Old 03-08-2012, 07:19 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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Sorry to hear of this news. I remember him well from "back in the day" my time there.
Like too many others, just too young to die. Thanks for the updates/links.
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Old 03-08-2012, 07:35 PM
 
Location: Up on the moon laughing down on you
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Sorry to hear of this news. I remember him well from "back in the day" my time there.
I do too.

RIP Leslie
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Old 03-08-2012, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Austin
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The memorial parade was beautiful, complete with a Dixeland band and New Orleans-style procession and police motorcade. Several people, including local business owners, stepped outside to pay their respects as the parade passed by. The band played familiar classics like "Amazing Grace," "You Are My Sunshine" and "When the Saints Go Marching In."

As one poster said on the "Love for Leslie" Facebook page, "Leslie would have loved tying up police resources for two hours."

Everyone wrote their wishes for Leslie on small slips of paper — these will be put in the helium balloons that will be released at the memorial this coming Sunday.

I met Leslie's sister and niece, both lovely people, and so very grateful for the good folks in Austin who accepted him for who he was.

Godspeed, Leslie. You personify everything that's wonderfully weird about our fair city.
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Old 03-08-2012, 10:39 PM
 
Location: san francisco
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I ran into him so many times. I never had a conversation with him but I'd always overhear his conversations with other people who said they had met him before and their conversations turned into conversations about other people he'd met or hung out with. There's just no possible way that anybody who's ever been to Austin has been in some form or another affected by this guy. I don't think anybody even thinks of him as simply a homeless man. This guy was an Austin icon probably inasmuch as Stevie Ray Vaughan was. Austin should build a shrine in his memory.
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Old 03-09-2012, 12:21 AM
 
Location: In a state of denial
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Leslie was a true shining icon to Austin (keep Austin weird). RIP Leslie.
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Old 03-09-2012, 07:46 AM
 
Location: Round Rock, Texas
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I ran into him so many times. I never had a conversation with him but I'd always overhear his conversations with other people who said they had met him before and their conversations turned into conversations about other people he'd met or hung out with. There's just no possible way that anybody who's ever been to Austin has been in some form or another affected by this guy. I don't think anybody even thinks of him as simply a homeless man. This guy was an Austin icon probably inasmuch as Stevie Ray Vaughan was. Austin should build a shrine in his memory.
Now you're going a bit overboard - no need to gush over the guy like he was a founding father.

I'd venture to say the vast majority of Austinites never saw him or were affected by him in any way.

He was nice guy and a town character who got lots of media pub solely for his public crossdressing ways.

It's nice of so many to care about him and mourn his passing, but please, get a grip.

Go to the memorial, hoist a few drinks in his honor (heck, a downtown "mixologist" should name a drink after him), start an annual drinking/thong/boa Lesliefest, but no need to spend money on a "shrine".

Donate your cash to a homelesss advocacy group or the Salvation Army.

Anyway,

RIP Leslie.
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Old 03-09-2012, 08:37 AM
 
Location: san francisco
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Now you're going a bit overboard - no need to gush over the guy like he was a founding father.

I'd venture to say the vast majority of Austinites never saw him or were affected by him in any way.

He was nice guy and a town character who got lots of media pub solely for his public crossdressing ways.

It's nice of so many to care about him and mourn his passing, but please, get a grip.

Go to the memorial, hoist a few drinks in his honor (heck, a downtown "mixologist" should name a drink after him), start an annual drinking/thong/boa Lesliefest, but no need to spend money on a "shrine".

Donate your cash to a homelesss advocacy group or the Salvation Army.

Anyway,

RIP Leslie.
anyways.... this wasn't totally necessary. just expressing some idea, not something i feel is completely necessary. but i also feel it wasn't entirely necessary for you to address the contrary. you're going overboard.
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Old 03-09-2012, 08:44 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Now you're going a bit overboard - no need to gush over the guy like he was a founding father.

I'd venture to say the vast majority of Austinites never saw him or were affected by him in any way.

He was nice guy and a town character who got lots of media pub solely for his public crossdressing ways.

It's nice of so many to care about him and mourn his passing, but please, get a grip.

Go to the memorial, hoist a few drinks in his honor (heck, a downtown "mixologist" should name a drink after him), start an annual drinking/thong/boa Lesliefest, but no need to spend money on a "shrine".

Donate your cash to a homelesss advocacy group or the Salvation Army.


Anyway,

RIP Leslie.
Two excellent ideas, and much more in keeping with what Leslie would like, I think, than a "shrine". Particularly the former.
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Old 03-09-2012, 09:26 AM
 
Location: CasaMo
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Now you're going a bit overboard - no need to gush over the guy like he was a founding father.

I'd venture to say the vast majority of Austinites never saw him or were affected by him in any way.

He was nice guy and a town character who got lots of media pub solely for his public crossdressing ways.

It's nice of so many to care about him and mourn his passing, but please, get a grip.

Go to the memorial, hoist a few drinks in his honor (heck, a downtown "mixologist" should name a drink after him), start an annual drinking/thong/boa Lesliefest, but no need to spend money on a "shrine".

Donate your cash to a homelesss advocacy group or the Salvation Army.

Anyway,

RIP Leslie.
Agreed. I've never met him, but don't have any doubts he was a nice guy from what people that know him have said about him.
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