INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2017 [Posthumous] Born in Ecuador, Miss Ketty learned to dance in Puerto Rico in the 1960s. Increasingly
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2017 Keith Butler is an actor who has used his recognition and talent to advance the LGBT
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2000 For more than 20 years, Israel Wright has held volunteer leadership posts in business, social service,
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2015 [now deceased] For 30 years, Lauren Verdich played a critical role in Chicago’s LGBT community. She
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2015 [Posthumous] Barbara Smith (1946–2015) was a founding board member of Affinity Community Services. Her leadership, managing
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2015 As an openly gay African-American, Michael O’Connor has contributed a great deal to the lives of
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2015 Gail H. Morse is a fierce advocate for securing civil rights for Chicago’s LGBT community through
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2015 Dr. Phoenix Matthews is widely recognized, nationally and internationally, for groundbreaking research on health disparities in
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2015 Stan Jenczyk was born in a German Workers’ Camp in Waltrop, Germany, in 1944. His parents
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2015 Emmanuel Garcia is a Latino LGBT journalist, youth mentor, and respected community leader in Chicago. He
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