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After graduating from Columbia College with a degree in graphic arts, Sotomayor contributed hard-hitting political cartoons to Windy City Times and other GLBT publications around the country; and as a member of the militant activist group ACT UP/Chicago, he gained attention for his public confrontations with Mayor Daley and other politicians protesting inadequate AIDS/HIV education and prevention programs.
Diagnosed with AIDS in 1988, Sotomayor was 33 when he died in 1992. His lover, noted Chicago playwright Scott McPherson, died November 7 the same year, also from AIDS complications at 33. Both were posthumously inducted into the city of Chicago's Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame.
A Hero Comes Home remains on display at the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, 3015 W. Division, through March 5, with a special event marking the anniversary of Sotomayor’s death on Friday, February 5. The institute is open from 10 AM to 5 PM every weekday except Wednesday and from 11 AM to 3 PM Saturdays. For more information go to www.iprac.org.
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