John T. Graves

John T. Graves was an American Christian clergyman of African-American descent who was an early activist for civil rights for homosexual men. He served as a co-founder and the only president of the Society for Human Rights, an organization established in 1924 in Chicago, Illinois in order to organize homophile men. Graves and Henry Gerber, the driving force behind the organization's establishment, decided to limit the organization's membership to homosexual men and exclude bisexual men.

In a letter written by Gerber to the then-new homophile emancipation newsletter ONE in 1962, Graves was described as "a preacher who earned his room and board by preaching brotherly love to small groups of Negroes."