Made in Chicago: Best Chicago contribution to LGBTQ history

by Robert Rodi | October 24, 2019

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Society for Human Rights

Most activists aren’t aware of a tradition for gay rights organizations, from ACT UP and GLAAD to PFLAG and HRC, that extends even farther back than the Mattachine Society, founded in 1950. But the country’s first organization dedicated to homosexual equality was the Society for Human Rights, founded by Chicagoan Henry Gerber; its nonprofit charter was granted by the state of Illinois in December 1924. Its history was brief, but its influence enduring. (Robert Rodi)

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