Robert Ganshorn

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Email Address: alumni@bilerico.com

Location: Jomtien, Thailand

Project Contributor Since: July 2, 2007

Entries by this Contributor: 28

Born 1953, in Michigan City Indiana, Robert was the founding treasurer of the Gay Liberation Front at Purdue University in 1973 when still nineteen. In graduate school at Indiana University he created one of the first documentaries examining homosexual discrimination from within the community itself. With the assistance of Dr. Paul Gebhard, Head of the Kinsey Institute, this documentary was aired on Public Broadcasting station WTIU in 1974.

Robert went on to become co-founder of Ganshorn & Associates Inc. of Chicago, Illinois with his life partner. He and his partner met in 1976 and concentrated on neighborhood improvement issues in Chicago from 1978 through 2002. These activities centered around improvements in the community affecting children and reducing drug and gang activity in the Logan Square Community. Two Gay men, in a Hispanic community, sponsored Little League, Special Olympics, served on the park board advisory council, CAPS (Citizens Assisting Police) and through their business life in the giftwares industry sponsored "Gifts For Life" to benefit Aids victims.

Selling Ganshorn & Associates in 2002 they lived in Palm Beach County for five years before realizing their dream to live in "The Kingdom of Smiles."