Chicago's Legacy Walk honors two LGBTQ activist superstars - Transgender icon Sylvia Rivera from the Stonewall Era, and gay film historian Vito Russo, who co-founded both Act-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) - to the Legacy Walk. Chicago's Legacy Walk is the world's only outdoor LGBT History Museum. Dedicated in 2012, this half-mile installation currently features 35 bronze biographical memorials celebrating the lives of people like Leonard Bernstein, Audre Lorde, Sally Ride, James Baldwin, Jane Addams, Rudolf Nureyev, Frida Kahlo, and Alan Turing. Every year new bronze markers are added to expand this "outdoor classroom" for bullied LGBTQ youth to provide them with positive, historically significant role models whose contributions have made an incalculable difference on the world we share. THIS UNIQUE CHICAGO EVENT IS IN THREE PARTS: 1p - 3p Opening Reception and Program | Center on Halsted - Trans Activist Myles Brady-Davis, Howard Brown Health Center - Gay Activist Cleve Jones, NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Reflecting on the Evolution of Activism across the Decades 3p - 4p Legacy Walk Inductions | Northalsted Streetscape Featuring Lyons Township High School LGBTQ Youth - Sylvia Rivera Bronze Memorial Dedication | 3656 N. Halsted Personal Reflections of Sylvia Rivera's Friends - Vito Russo Bronze Memorial Dedication | 3411 N. Halsted Personal Reflections of Bruce Vilanch, Emmy-Award-Winning Writer/Actor/Producer 4p - 6p Celebration Party | Sidetrack | 3349 N. Halsted Building a New Legacy for the Future of Our Past\u2026
