even showed up. His partner Russell Hayward spoke about feeling like "his heart had been ripped out," and his mom Figen referred to him as an "iconic, fun, eccentric diva." A memorial featured huge letters spelling a word he loved to use – and one that also seems to describe him: "ICONIC."Twitter contentView on TwitterRelated: Emmett Till was a teenager who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after allegedly making advances toward a white woman named Carolyn Bryant (who later said herclaims were false from President Donald Trump in the midst of his controversial Supreme Court nomineeBrett Kavanaugh (This is an incredible latke-like breakfast food and one of Britain's greatest inventions.)8.