Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame New Inductees

Ten years ago, Rev. Greg Dell was suspended as pastor of the Broadway United Methodist Church in Lakeview after performing a union service for two men. Last Thursday, he was among 14 individuals and one organization inducted into Chicago's Gay & Lesbian Hall of Fame.
Check out the latest new additions to gay and lesbian hall of fame.

Chicago is the only known municipality that honors its LGBT citizenry with a city-sponsored hall of fame, established in 1991.

New inductees span Chicago's sexual-minority community and include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Chicagoans, as well as those who have supported or assisted the community.

Other 2008 inductees include Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams (1860-1935); Suzanne Arnold, vice co-chair of the Federation of Gay Games; Kevin Boyer, co-creator of national Gay and Lesbian History Month, co-founder of the Chicago Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and vice co-chair of Gay Games VII in Chicago; Michal Brody, founding member of the groundbreaking Chicago Gay Liberation group in 1969, a founding member of Chicago Lesbian Liberation in 1970 and author of Are We There Yet?, a landmark book of Chicago lesbian history; Sam Coady, advocate for LGBT workplace equality, co-chair of Gay Games VII in Chicago and founder of the Chicago Hoops Classic - the largest and longest-running LGBT basketball tournament in the world; Eddie Dugan (1944-1987), showman and patron of the arts; Murray Edelman, co-founder of the Chicago Gay Liberation group and pioneer of Chicago LGBT activism; Stephen Jones (who died in 1980), entertainer and sexual health awareness advocate; Joe La Pat (1943-2008), entrepreneur, for his generosity and wide-ranging support for Chicago's LGBT community, including the Center on Halsted; Jesus Salgueiro, 47, and Art Smith, 47, co-creators of Common Threads, an international children's charity; Guy Warner, activist, founding member of Mattachine Midwest, a precursor to PFLAG; Artemis Singers, the first women's singing ensemble in the U.S. to explicitly call itself a lesbian feminist chorus; and Katherine (Kit) Duffy, first mayoral liaison to Chicago's LGBT communities and advocate for LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance.