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Essential Architecture- Chicago
Northeast Henry Gerber House |
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architect |
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location |
1710 N. Crilly Court |
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date |
1885 |
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NeoRomanesque |
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construction |
Stone |
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Located in the Old Town Triangle Chicago Landmark District, this
stone-fronted rowhouse is individually distinguished as the home of
pioneering gay civil-rights activist Henry Gerber (1892-1972) between
1924 and 1925. During his residency here, Gerber formed the Society for
Human Rights, the first American gay civil-rights organization, whose
newsletter, Friendship and Freedom, was the first documented gay
civil-rights publication in the United States. While serving with the U.S. Army of Occupation in Germany from 1920 to 1923, Gerber became active in the emerging German gay civil-rights movement. He may have been involved in the publication of German gay civil-rights periodicals at that time, laying the foundation for his later work in Chicago. Upon his relocation to Chicago, Gerber established the Society for Human Rights with a group of early gay civil-rights advocates who were willing to accept the personal risk of publicly identifying themselves as homosexuals at a time when gay men and lesbians routinely faced discrimination, harassment, and imprisonment. |
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With special thanks to the City of
Chicago website,
www.egov.cityofchicago.org , for much of the info on this page.
Photos copyright City of Chicago. |
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