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 2016 [now deceased] As a child, Maritxa Vidal immigrated from Cuba with her family hoping to find
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2016 [Posthumous] Patrick Dennis (1921-1976) was the author of sixteen books including the enormously popular bestselling camp
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Román Buenrostro, was co-founder of the Association for Latin Men for Action (ALMA) and served people living with AIDS as
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2016 [Posthumous] Robert Allerton (1873-1964) | Honorary president and trustee of the Art Institute, this gay Chicago
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FRIEND OF THE COMMUNITY | Inducted 2014 [Now Deceased] For 18 years, Clarence N. Wood headed the Chicago Commission on
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2014 [Posthumous] Bennet Williams was an HIV/AIDS advocate and activist whose life had an impact on many
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2014 [Posthumous] As co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet in New York with Robert Joffrey in 1956, Gerald
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2013 [Posthumous] Burr Tillstrom (1917–1985), a native Chicagoan, for his contributions to the early days of television
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