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- CHIGO IS ABOUT TO HAVE THE GAYT CY COUNCIL IN THE COUNTRY
- CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC
- SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE LG PRAISED BY ILLOIS ADVOT
- FIRST GAY RIGHTS GROUP THE US (1924)
- CHIGO GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SET TO PROTT AGAST CHICK-FIL-A
CHIGO IS ABOUT TO HAVE THE GAYT CY COUNCIL IN THE COUNTRY
Lbian, gay, transgenr, queer, bisexual — however you intify, you’ll f right . Check out the ultimate LGBTQ+ Chigo gui om Choose Chigo. * chicago gay rights *
June’s Chigo Pri Ftival, one of the largt annual gay pri ftivals the untry, and Chigo Pri Para, which attracts an timated one ln spectators, are among the summer’s stars.
CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC
Lbian, gay and bisexual alrpeople now are one-fifth of the Cy Council — and they reprent all rners of the cy. The new members show "there is LGBTQ life outsi of Boystown," one said." class="" style=" * chicago gay rights *
Check out some of Chigo’s top gay events throughout the year. CHICAGO — The new Cy Council will soon have Chigo’s hight-ever reprentatn of lbian, gay and bisexual alrpeople, offerg key opportuni to strengthen the cy’s reputatn as a bean for LGBTQ rights while protectg the most vulnerable members of the muny, they number of openly LGB-intifyg alrpeople Chigo will grow om seven to ne, prisg one-fifth of the uncil, when members are sworn May 15. Robson is the first Black, openly gay man on Cy Council.
”Cred: Jake Wtich/Block Club ChigoJsie Fuent, alrman-elect of the 26th Ward, speaks durg a Wednday, March 8, 2023, prs nference about mayoral ndidate Pl Vallas’ track rerd on LGBTQ, who had been the only gay alrman south of North Avenue, said he agre the broar diversy of the LGBT Cc n “raise awarens that there is LGBTQ life outsi of Boystown. A century ago, and long before Lori Lightfoot was elected the first openly gay mayor of Chigo, the cy was home to LGBTQ rights fluencers such as Henry Gerber and Pearl Hart. Known as the “Guardian Angel of Chigo’s Gay Communy, ” Hart is one of the first female attorneys to practice crimal law Chigo and equently fends untls gay men arrted bars and tea rooms.
SUPREME COURT GAY MARRIAGE LG PRAISED BY ILLOIS ADVOT
Kg Lil Jay has nied allegatns of him beg gay after a prison vio began dog the rounds which one male mate is seen stg on the lap of another. * chicago gay rights *
Pneer gay and civil rights activist Henry Gerber. (Handout)1924: The first Amerin gay rights anizatn, The Society for Human Rights, is created by German immigrant and Chigo rint Henry Gerber. ”1950: Jazz tmpeter Ernte “Ty” Davis opens the club Ty & Ruby’s Gay Spot wh her partner Ruby Lus the 2700 block of South Wentworth Avenue Chigo.
30, 1956, psychologist Evelyn Hooker livers her paper “The Adjtment of the Male Overt Homosexual, ” which was published a year later, at the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn Conventn Chigo. Her study challenged beliefs about gay men and found that they were not herently abnormal.
FIRST GAY RIGHTS GROUP THE US (1924)
Gay rights supporters Illois cheer the news that the U.S. Supreme Court stck down bans on same-sex marriag, makg gay marriage legal natnwi. * chicago gay rights *
In 1973 the APA removed homosexualy om s list of psychiatric disorrs.
(Chigo Tribune)1965: Lbian pulp novelist Valerie Taylor and lawyer Pearl Hart, among others, tablish Mattache Midwt, the cy’s first succsful gay rights anizatn. The se mak to the Supreme Court and Klepak is Liberatn Front members march through Bughoe Square (now Washgton Square Park) on their way to a rally at the Civic Center (now Daley Plaza) on June 27, 1970, as part of Chigo's first Gay Pri Week. (Anthony Robert La Penna/Chigo Tribune)1974: The Chigo Gay Medil Stunts Associatn creat Howard Brown Memorial Clic, a place where gays and lbians n receive unselg and sexually transmted fectns ttg and treatment.
CHIGO GAY RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SET TO PROTT AGAST CHICK-FIL-A
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1977: On June 14, 1977, thoands gather outsi the Medah Temple to prott Florida orange juice spokwoman Ana Bryant, who opposed gay Harold Washgton attends a gay rights rally Lln Park on July 1, 1984. Washgton said the fight for gay rights is part of the larger stggle for civil rights. 1991: The Gay and Lbian Hall of Fame, later renamed the Chigo LGBT Hall of Fame, is created Chigo, honorg people and anizatns who have ntributed to the cy’s LGBTQ muni.
(Alex Garcia/Chigo Tribune)1992: The Universy of Chigo begs to offer benefs to gay and lbian upl, one of the first lleg to do so. A group of openly gay and lbian Cook County judg formed their own associatn lled the Alliance of Illois Judg.