
INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2006 [Now Deceased] Their life partnership flourished for 39 years and five weeks, as did their ongoing
Read more →INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2006 [Now Deceased] Their life partnership flourished for 39 years and five weeks, as did their ongoing
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2006 [Now Deceased] A Chicago native, Laird Petersen contributed years of service to Chicago’s LGBT community and
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INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2006 [now deceased] Edward Negron, is an activist and substance-abuse counselor, and served for many years as
Read more →Left: Jane Heap | Photo by: Bernese Abbott
Right: Margaret Anderson | Photo by: Man Ray
INDIVIDUALS | Inducted 2006 [Posthumous] Margaret Anderson (photo)(1886-1973) and Jane Heap (1883-1964), partners and free-thinking literary figures, for editing and
Read more →INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2005 [Posthumous] Larry Sloan fell in love with Chicago as a student at Northwestern University and never
Read more →INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2005 [Posthumous] The life work of Mike Savage covered social work executive and religious activist, leading programs
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FRIEND OF THE COMMUNITY | Inducted 2005 [Now Deceased] As long ago as 1979, Merry Mary was one of a group
Read more →INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2004 [Now Deceased] Ralph Paul Gernhardt fostered the development and cohesion of Chicago’s sexual-minority communities by helping
Read more →INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2004 [Posthumous] Charles E. Clifton made significant contributions as a health advocate for nearly 15 years before
Read more →INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 2004 [Posthumous] For several years in the 1970s and 1980s, Chris Clason was a talented, entertaining figure
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