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| The Commission on Human Relations, chaired by Clarence N. Wood, is an official City of Chicago office. Within this department exists the Advisory Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues (ACGLBTI). | | | The Commission and Advisory Council represent a strong alliance for fairness, equality and justice. Working together, and in collaboration with the leadership of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities, we are advocates for human rights and the fair treatment of all segments of our diverse city. | | | The current council members ( as of October 2004 shown below) continue the type of work that led to the creation of the nations’s only city-sponsored Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame. | |
 | Robert Castillo | | Inducted 2001 [ACLGBTI Council Member] | | An almost indefatigable organizer, when inducted into the Hall of Fame at age 33 he already had a decade’s history of committed work in launching or supporting grassroots sexual minority campaigns involving Latinas and Latinos, gender-identity bias, homophobic violence, neighborhood activism, history, human rights laws and HIV/AIDS. [More about Robert Castillo] |
 | Gary Chichester | | Inducted 1992 [GLHF Committee Member][ACLGBTI Council Member] | | He has provided more than 30 years of commitment and work to the gay and lesbian communities. In 1971 he co-founded the Chicago Gay Alliance, which created Chicago’s first gay and lesbian community center. He has served on the Chicago Commission on Human Relations’ Advisory Council on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues since 1989 and has sat on the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame Committee from its inception in 1991 (co-chairing it since 1992). [More about Gary Chichester] |
 | William B. Kelley | | Inducted 1991 [GLHF Committee Member][ACLGBTI Council Member] | | Since 1965, he has led in many pioneering efforts – among them helping to organize the first national gay and lesbian conferences (1966), co-founding the "Chicago Gay Crusader" and Illinois Gays for Legislative Action (early 1970s), attending the first White House gay rights meeting (1977), co-chairing the Illinois Gay Rights Task Force (late 1970s), and co-founding the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association (1988). Now a lawyer, he chaired the Cook County Commission on Human Rights for its first 10 years. [More about William B. Kelley] |
 | John Pennycuff | | Inducted 2003 [ACLGBTI Council Member] | | On front lines, on sidelines, and behind the scenes, besides supporting reproductive choice and AIDS funding, he has been an outspoken, proud, and ceaseless activist since 1991 for sexual-minority rights in civil society and his United Methodist denomination. His commitment, courage, and energy have made him an exemplar for direct-action, educational, and political work toward equality. [More about John Pennycuff] |
 | Catherine Sikora | | Inducted 2005 [ACLGBTI Council Member] | | Photographer and activist, for advocacy of laws
against discrimination because of gender identity or sexual orientation
and for visual documentation of the transgender community as well as the
larger LGBT community in the Chicago area.
[More about Catherine Sikora] |
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