INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1996 [Now Deceased] As a producer, remixer, and DJ, Frankie Knuckles is the inventor and popularized of
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1996 [Now Deceased] After joining Dignity/Chicago in 1975, Arlene Halko became its first lesbian president and was
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1996 (now deceased) As educator and writer, Jacqueline Anderson has contributed to academic discussion about lesbianism and
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1995 [Now Deceased] Yvonne Zipter has used her considerable talents to document the lives of lesbians and
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1995 [Now Deceased] As a quietly persistent young lawyer, in 1988 James Monroe Smith founded the AIDS
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1995 [Posthumous] In the 1970s and 1980s, Rev. David B. Sindt fought homophobia in civil and religious
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FRIEND OF THE COMMUNITY | Inducted 1995 [Now Deceased] In her roles as an attorney, educator, author, state legislator, advocate for
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1995 [Now Deceased] As an organizer and philanthropist in Chicago and Massachusetts Jean Hardisty helped open Chicago’s
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FRIEND OF THE COMMUNITY | Inducted 1996 [now deceased] A civic artist and tenacious advocate for gay and lesbian Chicagoans
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1995 [Now Deceased] He was a veteran member of PrideChicago, which plans the annual pride parade. He
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