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Aubrey Wertheim
Aubrey Wertheim had a singular impact on the LGBT and arts communities in both
Charles Callender
Charles Callender, Ph.D., was the chair of
Cleveland and New York City. the Department of Anthropology at Case
Western Reserve University, as well as an integral part of Cleveland's LGBT commu-
Having done field work among Native Americans and the Kenuz people in Egyptian Nubia, he turned his eye toward people closer to home, becoming the faculty advisor of the Gay Student Union at Case.
In Cleveland, he transformed the Gay Education and Awareness Resources Foun-nity. dation into the Cleveland Gay and Lesbian Center, created the Living Room, the PRYSM youth support group, and the Maryann Finegan anti-violence program. In New York he started the nation's first toll-free AIDS information hotline and a program to welcome LGBT transplants to New York that still runs under the city's LGBT center.
In addition to his early gay and AIDS activism, he was an accomplished playwright, having his work produced on PBS' American Playhouse and nominated for the Helen Hayes Award.
Wertheim died in January, 2003 after a prolonged battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Callender founded the Gay People's Chronicle in 1984 to replace the ten-yearold High Gear newspaper, which had ceased publication earlier that year.
He continued as the paper's editor and publisher until his death from a heart attack on October 30, 1986, on his 58th birthday.
His legacy lives on in the newspaper he founded, which renamed its community calendar "Charlie's Calendar" in his honor.
A collection of his work, lecture notes and papers resides in the National Anthropological Archives of the National Museum of National History in Suitland, Maryland.
Robin Nelson
Robin Nelson, who died on May 19, 1993 at the age of 37 from AIDS-related complications, had his hands in a variety of pies during his life.
A member of the Northern Ohio Coalition, Inc., he was on the board of Black and White Men Together-Cleveland and worked with the Health Issues Taskforce, which later became the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland.
He made his name, however, in his drag persona of Jasmine Baker, known for her performances of Anita Baker songs. Jasmine received dozens of awards, including Miss Gay Cleveland North Coast, In Living Color's Entertainer of the Year and North East Ohio Entertainer of the Year.
Having earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from John Carroll University, Nelson owned JB Showcase Productions, and was such a force in the community that 300 people turned out for his memorial service, held four days after his death at U4ia nightclub on Berea Road.
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