Archive for the In Memoriam Category

INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1997 [Posthumous] As an American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois lawyer, John Hammell fought for gay and

INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1997 [Now Deceased] One of Chicago’s most visible gay businesspersons for more than 25 years and a

INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1996 [Now Deceased] Born in Pakistan, Ifti Nasim wrote “Narman”, an award winning book of Urdu poetry

INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1996 [Now Deceased] After coming to Chicago in 1951 as a female impersonator, Tony Midnite opened a

INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1996 [Now Deceased] As a producer, remixer, and DJ, Frankie Knuckles is the inventor and popularized of

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] As a quietly persistent young lawyer, in 1988 James Monroe Smith founded the AIDS

INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1995 [Posthumous] In the 1970s and 1980s, Rev. David B. Sindt fought homophobia in civil and religious