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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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2013 [Now Deceased] Andrew Patner, for more than three decades was a journalist, editor, biographer, lecturer, teacher,
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2013 [Posthumous] Rudolph Johnson, Jr. (1947–2006), for 23 years as a well-known and well-regarded North Halsted Street
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2012 [Posthumous] Lois L. Bates (1970-2011) has served as an adviser, trainer, and health educator on HIV-prevention
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2011 [Posthumous] Jon Simmons (1955-1994), a city government liaison to LGBT Chicagoans under three mayors. Before being
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