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|  | Michelle Bonnarens Bonnarens is a former Chicagoan now living in Germany. Her activism included fighting back against bigots at the University of Chicago in the 1980s. | |
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|  | John D'Emilio D'Emilio is one of the top U.S. historians on the gay movement, with multiple articles and books on LGBT history. | |
|  | Murray Edelman Edelman was an activist in Chicago in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including with the Chicago Gay Liberation movement. | |
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|  | Eugenia Fawcett Fawcett came out in the 1940s in Chicago as a student at the University of Chicago. She was with her partner Mary from 1955 until Mary's death. | |
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|  | Patrick K. Finnessy Patrick Finnessy, Ph.D. is the Director of the Office of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Concerns at the University of Illinois at Chicago. | |
|  | Kathy Forde Kathy Forde and her partner Yvonne Zipter are supportive of various LGBT causes. Forde is an academic advisor at the U. of C., and mentors GLBT youth. | |
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|  | Hannah Frisch Frisch was active in University of Chicago Gay Liberation in the early '70s. She also attended meetings of Chicago Lesbian Liberation. | |
|  | 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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|  | Dwight McBride McBride is an academic activist writing about LGBT issues, especially within an African-American context. | |
|  | Iakovos Mesaritis Mesaritis and partner Patrick Finnessy are active on academic gay issues. | |
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|  | Charles Middleton Middleton is openly gay and president of Roosevelt University, the first openly gay person appointed to lead a major university in the U.S. | |
|  | Yasmin Nair Nair is an academic, activist and writer, and was a member of Queer to the Left. | |
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|  | Achy Obejas Obejas is the award-winning author of Days of Awe, Memory Mambo, and We Came all the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?. She was born in Hava | |
|  | Rich Pfeiffer & Tim Frye Pfeiffer (left) and Frye have been partners since 1971, working on a range of gay issues, including the Pride Parades. | |
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