Derrick Hicks
Derrick Hicks | |
|---|---|
| Born | Derrick Allen Hicks 1955 |
| Died | 2002 (aged 46–47) |
| Known for | Founding member of the Council of Black Gay Men |
Derrick Allen Hicks was an American LGBT activist.[1][2][3]
Life
[edit]Derrick Hicks was born in Chicago, U.S.[4][5]
Hicks was a founding member of the Council of Black Gay Men and a journalist for a homosexual publication in Chicago in the 1970s.[1] He also founded a magazine named Diplomat during the same period.[4] In the 1980s, he joined the first Washington, DC, AIDS task team.[1] To combat the spread of HIV in the West Side community, he helped establish the Greater Chicago Committee in the early 1990s.[1]
In 1999, Hicks was inducted to the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame.[4]
Hicks was a member of the Chicago HIV Prevention Planning Group and St. Joseph Hospital's HIV Advisory Board.[4] He co-chaired Langston Hughes–Eleanor Roosevelt Democratic Club and also headed the Black Lesbian and Gay Community Center.[4]
Recognition
[edit]- Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame (1999)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "DERRICK A. HICKS, 46". Chicago Tribune. May 2002.
- ^ "Black in Chicago - Windy City Times News". Windy City Times. March 1, 2003.
- ^ "Gay Lesbian Bisexual Trans News - inmemoriam". Windy City Times.
- ^ a b c d e "DERRICK ALLEN HICKS – Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame".
- ^ "Black History Month - Mark Hughes". February 26, 2020.