Orlando Lansdorf

{{Short description|Dutch drag queen and HIV activist (1965–2021)}}

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| birth_place = Paramaribo, Suriname

| death_date = {{death date|2021|3|6|df=y}} (aged 55)

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| occupation = Drag queen, HIV activist

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Orlando Lansdorf (1965 – 6 March 2021) was a Surinamese-Dutch drag queen and HIV activist who received media attention in the Netherlands.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/dit-is-dragqueen-orlando~aa364817/|title=Dit is dragqueen Orlando|website=Algemeen Dagblad}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hivvereniging.nl/blog/vanuit-de-vereniging/13514-in-memoriam-orlando-lansdorf-hiv-activist-van-het-eerste-uur-overleden|title=In Memoriam: Orlando Lansdorf, hiv-activist van het eerste uur, overleden|date=March 9, 2021|website=Hiv Vereniging Nederland}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.parool.nl/gs-bad7114c|title=Orlando Lansdorf (1965-2021) was de wervelwind van de Zeedijk|first=Hans van der|last=Beek|date=March 12, 2021|website=Het Parool}}

Landsdorf was born in Paramaribo, Suriname. He moved to Veghel in the Netherlands. Landsdorf was the father of two children{{Cite web|url=https://www.clientenbelangamsterdam.nl/actueel/nieuws/orlando-lansdorf-zomergast-bij-radio-signaal|title=Orlando Lansdorf zomergast bij Radio Signaal|first=Clientenbelang|last=Amsterdam|website=Cliëntenbelang Amsterdam - voor iedereen met een beperking en chronische ziekte}} with a lesbian mother. In the 1990s, he was active in Safe Seks Guerrilla, a performance group to raise awareness of HIV, and to promote safe sex. Later, he was diagnosed HIV positive himself.{{cite web|url=https://byorlando.wordpress.com/over/ |title=Dit is Orlando|website=By Orlando at Wordpress|date=17 June 2015|access-date=13 March 2021}} He worked as a bartender at Café 't Mandje on the Zeedijk in Amsterdam.{{cite news|url=https://www.gaykrant.nl/2021/03/12/in-memoriam-orlando-lansdorf/ |title=In Memoriam: Orlando Lansdorf|website=Gay Krant|access-date=12 March 2021|language=nl}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/01/22/mooie-ontdekkingstocht-met-verhalen-over-het-echte-adam-a4028396|title=Mooie ontdekkingstocht met verhalen over het'echte A'dam'|website=NRC Handelsblad|access-date=12 March 2021|language=nl|url-access=subscription}} Lansdorf died in his sleep on 6 March 2021, aged 55.