James Hormel, the first out gay US ambassador, has died

Former ambassador James C. Hormel sits at his desk in this 2011 photo. (Photo: Rick Gerharter)

James Catherwood Hormel, a philanthropist and the first openly LGBT person to represent the United States as an ambassador, died in a San Francisco hospital Friday, August 13, with his husband at his side and his favorite Beethoven concerto playing. He was…