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 | | Dr. Carlos T. Mock | | | Inducted 2007 | | | Photo: TRACY BAIM | | Dr. Carlos T. Mock, 51, physician, author, and advocate, who has helped found Latino community organizations and has raised crucial funds for a variety of other organizations. | |
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| A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr.
Carlos T. Mock has lived in Chicago Asince 1981. He grew up in the San
Francisco–Santa María district of San Juan and
attended The Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his M.D.
degree at the University of Puerto Rico in 1980.
He joins the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of
Fame in recognition of years of dedicated
service to LGBT communities as a physician,
activist, and author.
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| Mock did his medical internship in New Orleans and a four-year obstetrics and
gynecology residency at Cook County Hospital. From 1985 through 1996, he
worked in private practices in the Chicago suburbs, serving as department chair
and board member at the Glen Ellyn Clinic from 1991 to 1996. He also served on
the medical board of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area for three years
beginning in 1992. In 1995 he participated in the capital campaign for the new
Howard Brown Health Clinic. | |
| Beginning in 1996, Mock expanded his civic and advocacy activities in Chicago,
becoming involved with Equality Illinois and its Education Campaign. In 2000,
he spearheaded creation of the Capitol Club, an elite donor group for Equality
Illinois, chairing the group from 2000 through 2003 and again in 2006. | |
| Together with his partner Bill Rattan, in 2001 Mock created the GLBTEvents
Web site, an online community calendar of cultural, social, and political events.
Two years later, the site evolved into its current incarnation as PinkAgenda.com,
geared primarily to travel and a lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender (LBGT)
calendar of events. In 2005, he began a blog covering current LBGT news,
politics, and events at local, national, and international levels. | |
| Since 2003, Mock has been particularly active in the field of arts and literature.
His work has appeared in a variety of publications and Web sites, including
Chicago’s Windy City Times, En La Vida, and Identity (in Spanish in the latter
two), in addition to the Chicago Sun-Times. He has also been published in Kansas
City’s Camp and Midwest Times, and in Miami’s Spanish-language Ambiente, as
well as The Kansas City Star and Mexico City’s Enkidu. He is the author of a
2003 memoir, Borrowing Time: A Latino Sexual Odyssey (Floricanto Press), and
a 2007 novel, The Mosaic Virus (Floricanto Press). | |
| In 2005, Mock became a founding board member of Orgullo en Acción, a
Chicago organization with goals “to promote education, provide leadership
development, and promote awareness within the Latino/Latina LGBTQQ
community” in order to unite for social and political change. He continues to
serve on the board of Equality Illinois. | |
| This biography is as of the induction date. It has not been updated. |
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