Rick Garcia to be honored March 25
Vida/SIDA will honor longtime local LGBT-rights advocate Rick Garcia with an event at Rehab at Circuit, 3641 N. Halsted, on Friday, March 25, 6-9 p.m.
Among Garcia's achievements are being inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1999; co-founding the Illinois Federation for Human Rights ( now known as Equality Illinois ) ; and playing pivotal roles in the passages of the civil-unions law and the amendment of the state's human-rights act that includes sexual orientation and gender identity.
Tickets are $50 each; contact Ricardo Jimenez at 773-278-6737 or RicardoJ@prcc-chgo.org .
Ishaug named to hunger commission
Gov. Pat Quinn has named Mark Ishaug of AIDS United as one of 22 statewide leaders to the new Commission to End Hunger, according to a press release.
Ishaugwho formerly headed the AIDS Foundation of Chicagorecently became chief of AIDS United, a new Washington, D.C.-based national organization that emerged from the merger between the National AIDS Fund and AIDS Action.
Rep. Elizabeth Hernandez, D-Cicero, was a co-sponsor with Sen. Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, of the legislation passed last year that created the commission, which will address the growing problem of hunger in Illinois by improving food security and nutrition through education, better coordinating services and increasing access to programs.