The Henry Gerber House is a house at 1710 North Crilly Court in the Old Town Triangle Chicago Landmark District of Chicago, Illinois

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, United States

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. The house was built in 1885. In the 1920s it housed the apartment

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 occupied by Henry Gerber

Henry Gerber

Henry Gerber was an early homosexual rights activist in the United States. Inspired by the work of Germany's Magnus Hirschfeld and his Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, Gerber founded the Society for Human Rights in 1924, the nation's first known homosexual organization, and Friendship and...

, founder of the short-lived Society for Human Rights

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The Society for Human Rights was an American homosexual rights organization established in Chicago in 1924. Society founder Henry Gerber was inspired to create the society by Germany's Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld and his work with the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee...

, which was incorporated

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 in Illinois as the first American organization

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 working for gay rights

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. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark

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on June 6, 2001.