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A crowd of Out in Chicago supporters gathered outside the Museum to celebrate the exhibition’s closing weekend. Elain stands in the back row, wearing a red shirt. Photograph by John Alderson.
Did you know the first gay rights organization started in Chicago?
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Chicago’s first Pride parade in 1970 was actually a march—and an act of civil disobedience.
Where in Chicago will the Dyke March take place this June?
The fight for transgender rights is far from over.
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Moisés Villada and father Augustín, West Side, on being gay in Chicago's Latino communities and the bonds between a father and son.
Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads. Published in conjunction with the Chicago History Museum's exhibition. This book offers fresh insights on the history of the city and it's residences including a collection of essays on the LGBT community. $19.95
OUT Opening Dykes on Bikes gather in front of the Chicago History Museum, May 2011. Debby Rijos, whose motorcycle is featured in Out in Chicago, sees riding as “a celebration of our pride and common cause together.
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This cartoon of the Levee District by John McCutcheon shows same sex pairs and debauchery in Chicago's vice district.
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Entitled "Laying Bare Their Private Lives" (c. 1910), this drawing by John T. McCutcheon shows two men sitting affectionately together on a trolley, reflecting a time when men could be more physically affectionate with each other without charges of homosexuality.
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John at "Gay Damen" Photo by Seth Morrison in 1994 of John Pizano in front of a Pilsen building where John used to hang out with his gay friends.
Caricature of George Ade and Orson Collins Wells Painting of George Ade and Orson Collins Wells by William Herman Schmedtgen, 1912. Schmedtgen insinuated that Ade and Wells were homosexuals by putting a red bowtie on Wells and the Chicago Athletic Club symbol on his fan. The painting hung at the all-male Chapin & Gore Tavern in Chicago for many years.
Photograph of Carlos Lopez standing in front of Horizons Community Services in 1994. Horizons formed in 1973 and for many years it provided mental health and social services to the LGBT Community. In 2007, it became the Center on Halsted with the establishment of a community center at Waveland and Halsted in 2007.
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A caricature of Dr. Mary Walker An 1890 oil painting of the nationally known Dr. Mary Walker, a female army surgeon in the Civil War who boldly wore men’s clothing. The artist, Theodore Wust, poked fun of Walker’s male clothing in this painting, which hung in the all-men’s Chicago saloon, Chapin and Gore.
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Bronzeville’s female impersonators Popular in the 1930s and 1940s at places like the Cabin Inn and Joe’s DeLuxe, these African American entertainers were a vital part of Bronzeville’s jazz and cabaret scene. Gift of Scotty Piper.
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Pearl Hart was a prominent civil rights attorney in Chicago who helped protect the rights of immigrants, prostitutes, and LGBT men and women.
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Salute to LGBT Veterans at the Daley Plaza on August 5th, 2009.
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Map of the South Side Levee, 1910 The Levee vice district, with its "sporting clubs" of all sorts, included many sexual options at the Sappho Club and the Why Not Club, a BDSM resort.
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Oil Painting Mural from Gold Coast bar, 1973, by Dom “Etienne” Orejudos. The Gold Coast bar opened in 1958, making Chicago the first city in the country to have a leather bar.
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Photograph of two servicemen during the Pullman Porter Strike, c. 1894. While these men were not necessarily gay, their linked arms reflect an openness at the time that allowed affection between men.
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Photograph of a gay rights rally in Daley Plaza in 1986. The protestors fought and won the passage of a city law that banned discrimination against gays and lesbians.
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