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Derrick Hicks

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Derrick Hicks
Born
Derrick Allen Hicks

1955 (1955)
Died2002(2002-00-00) (aged 46–47)
Known forFounding member of the Council of Black Gay Men

Derrick Allen Hicks was an American LGBT activist.[1][2][3]

Life

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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

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d "DERRICK A. HICKS, 46". Chicago Tribune. May 2002.
  2. ^ "Black in Chicago - Windy City Times News". Windy City Times. March 1, 2003.
  3. ^ "Gay Lesbian Bisexual Trans News - inmemoriam". Windy City Times.
  4. ^ a b c d e "DERRICK ALLEN HICKS – Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame".
  5. ^ "Black History Month - Mark Hughes". February 26, 2020.