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|  | Sam Bezanis Bezanis has donated his design services to many gay, AIDS and mainstream civil-rights groups, including the ACLU. | |
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|  | David Blatt & David Moore The work of partners in life and business Blatt and Moore has been critical to the survival of many of their clients with HIV and AIDS. | |
|  | Phil Burgess & Jim Nutter Nutter (left) and Burgess have been a couple since 1976; they donate and volunteer for a range of gay and AIDS groups. | |
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|  | Lori Cannon Lori Cannon has been a long-time supporter of the GLBT community, especially in her pioneering AIDS activism and support services. | |
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|  | Robert Castillo Castillo has been active for many years on a wide range of gay, AIDS and Latino issues. | |
|  | Armand Cerbone Cerbone has been an advocate and activist on GLBT mental and physical health issues for several decades. | |
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|  | Gary Chichester Chichester has been a gay activist since the early 1970s, serving in vital leadership positions. | |
|  | Michael Cook Cook is former executive director of Howard Brown Health Center, and he has been active on gay legal and health issues for many years. | |
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|  | Terry Cosgrove Cosgrove is an openly gay man heading one of the top organizations working in the U.S. for a women's right to choose, Personal PAC of Illinois. | |
|  | Dr. Gladys Croom Croom, Psy.D., has worked on gay and lesbian mental health issues for many years. She was also active in Yahimba and Literary Exchange. | |
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|  | Jan Dee & Janet Gutrich Jan Dee (left) and Janet Gutrich have been partners since Dec. 17, 1994. They support LGBT and AIDS causes as individuals and through their businesses | |
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|  | Tim Drake Long-time political activist Drake was the first openly gay candidate to win election in Illinois, as a 1980 John Anderson presidential delegate. | |
|  | Jean Durkin & Paula Walowitz Durkin (left) and Walowitz are partners, and were married in Canada soon after it became legal to do so. They are cultural activists. | |
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|  | Jean Durkin Durkin works on the needs of women in the shelter community. | |
|  | Ferd Eggan Eggan was a long-time Chicago and Los Angeles AIDS activist. He died in 2007. | |
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|  | Sanford Gaylord Gaylord is an actor, creative activist and writer based in Chicago. He was a co-founding member of A Real Read. | |
|  | Tom Gertz Gertz was active in the Mattachine Midwest chapter in the late 1960s and early 1970s. | |
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|  | Laura Goring Laura Goring and partner Lawrence Goring work on lesbian healthcare and transgender issues. | |
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|  | Lawrence Goring Lawrence Goring and partner Laura Goring work on lesbian healthcare and transgender issues. | |
|  | Debbie Gould Debbie Gould participated in ACT UP/Chicago for 6 years and was a founding member of Queer to the Left. | |
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|  | Vernita Gray Gray has been active on gay rights since the late 1960s. She has been part of a wide range of groups and works on anti-violence issues. | |
|  | Bill Greaves In 1995 Greaves was appointed to the City of Chicago Commission on Human
Relations’ Advisory Council on LGBT
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|  | Jessica Halem & Red Tremmel Halem and Tremmel spent many years in Chicago working on a variety of LGBT causes, including cultural activism. They away moved for work in '08.
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|  | Jessica Halem Halem is former executive director of the Lesbian Community Cancer (now Care) Project, and a standup comic. She is a long-time feminist. | |
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|  | Greg Harris Harris was elected to the Illinois General Assembly in 2006. He is a long-time Chicago-based activist on gay and AIDS issues. | |
|  | Ted Hoerl & Steve Scott Both Hoerl (left) and Scott are active theater professionals in Chicago, with long ties to the gay community. They have been together since Nov. 1, 1 | |
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|  | Ted Hoerl Hoerl is an Actor-Director/ Adjunct Professor of Acting CCPA at Roosevelt University. In the 1980s he owned Opal Station, a popular gay bar. | |
|  | Tonda Hughes Hughes is a researcher looking at lesbian health issues, and is active on LGBT issues in Chicago. | |
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|  | Mark Ishaug Ishaug is President/CEO of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.
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|  | Cat Jefcoat & Bonnie Wade Jefcoat (left) and Wade are a young power couple, both working for GLBT rights in community agencies. | |
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|  | Cat Jefcoat Jefcoat works with the Lesbian Community Care Project, now housed within Howard Brown Health Center. | |
|  | Chris Johnson Christine Johnson is a co-founder of Metis Press, Publisher of Lesbian Feminist Literature, and a founding member of the national Women In Print netwo | |
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|  | Corinne Kawecki Kawecki and partner Maureen Sweeney have been active in support of LGBT causes for many years, including with the Lesbian Community Cancer Project. | |
|  | Bill Kelley Kelley was among Chicago's longest-serving and most important gay activists, having worked since the 1960s to secure gay rights. He died in 2015. | |
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|  | Bruce Koff Bruce Koff, LCSW, has been a pioneering advocate for LGBT concerns in the fields of social service and mental health since 1977.
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|  | Danny Kopelson Kopelson has been a key staff member and volunteer for numerous gay and AIDS organizations, including AIDS Foundation of Chicago. | |
|  | Deb Lake & Terri Pease Lake and Pease have been partners since Oct. 10, 1998. Lake is a minister and author, Pease is a domestic violence and trauma consultant. | |
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|  | Deb Lake Rev. Lake is the executive director of Sankofa Way, creating new approaches to addressing oppression. | |
|  | Nancy Lanoue Lanoue co-founded the Womyn's Gym in the 1980s, later to become Thousand Waves. She co-founded the Lesbian Community Cancer Project. | |
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|  | Joe LaPat & Dick Uyvari Uyvari (left) and La Pat are supporters of gay sports and community groups, as well as numerous AIDS causes. | |
|  | Michael Leppen Leppen is among Chicago's most important philanthropists, supporting a wide range of gay, AIDS and human-rights causes. | |
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|  | Marcia Lipetz Lipetz has a long history of working on LGBT and AIDS causes, including as past executive director of AIDS Foundation of Chicago | |
|  | Lynnell Long Long is a writer, performer and poet who was part of A Real Reed and a columnist writing on intersex and gender-identity issues for BLACKlines newspap | |
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|  | Amy Maggio Maggio has worked and volunteered for AIDS and gay organizations in Chicago since the 1980s. | |
|  | Larry McKeon McKeon had a long public service career, from serving as a police officer in Los Angeles, to being the state's first openly gay, HIV-positive rep.
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|  | Sid Mohn Mohn, as president of the Heartland Alliance, has been a key part of work on behalf of people with AIDS and civil-rights for the LGBT community. | |
|  | Sharon Mylrea Mylrea is a former board member of Lesbian Community Cancer Project who supports gay political and health causes. | |
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|  | Jim Nutter Nutter and partner Phil Burgess are a long-time couple supportive of various gay and health issues. | |
|  | Susan O'Dell O'Dell has been on the frontlines of counseling for the LGBT community since the 1970s. | |
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|  | Renae Ogletree Ogletree has been active on a range of youth, LGBT, AIDS and other causes in Chicago since the 1980s. | |
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|  | Mary Patten Mary Patten is a visual artist, videomaker, writer, educator, occasional curator, and long-time community/political activist. | |
|  | Jim Pickett Picket is an HIV-positive activist and athlete. He is director of public policy for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago. | |
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|  | Tony Rivera Tony Alvarado Rivera was a very out teenager, winning awards for his pioneering activism. He continues to help youth now that he is out of school. | |
|  | Raymond Rodgers Rodgers is a deaf gay man who opened the first gay-deaf-owned interpreter service in the U.S, Deaf Communication By Innovation. | |
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|  | Julio Rodriguez Rodriguez is a critical activist working on LGBT, AIDS, Latino and anti-violence issues, including as a founder of ALMA. | |
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|  | Victor Salvo Salvo is a designer by trade, and an activist in his down time, having been a key part of Chicago's political and AIDS activism. | |
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|  | Starla Sholl Sholl is a social worker in full-time private practice, with a large LGB clientelle. She has volunteered with several LGBT groups. | |
|  | Max Smith Max Smith has been a gay activist since the 1970s, including on media, health and political issues. | |
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|  | David Stienecker David Stienecker was a critical 1960s and early 1970s Chicago activist who fought back against police harassment. | |
|  | Lauren Sugerman Sugerman is one of the co-founders of Chicago Women in Trades, a critical support for women entering non-traditional trades jobs. | |
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|  | Kevin Tindell Tindell is a change management consultant and minister. He and his partner are raising two sons. Tindell is active in Black gay and spiritual groups. | |
|  | Richard Turner Turner has been active on local and national GLBT and AIDS issues for decades. | |
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|  | Dick Uyvari Uyvari has been a critical part of the Chicago sports scene since the 1970s. He has also played a role in the national gay bowling movement. Died: 201 | |
|  | Tico Valle Valle has been a volunteer and staff member of a range of gay and AIDS groups, and serves as executive director of the Center on Halsted. | |
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|  | Bonnie Wade Wade works for the rights of GLBT youth in a variety of ways, including as a staff member of Teen Living. | |
|  | Steve Wakefield Wakefield spend many years in Chicago working for and heading up various gay and AIDS agencies. | |
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|  | Paula Walowitz Walowitz is a performer, singing out lesbian music since the 1970s. | |
|  | Vera Washington Washington is an HIV/AIDS counselor, party promoter through Executive Sweet, and longtime worker on LGBT youth issues. | |
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