'Hard Wood' is Fort Park's newt gay bar - Fort Park Review

Contents:

•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• ‘HARD WOOD’ IS FORT PARK’S NEWT GAY BAR
• ONE OF THE OLST GAY BARS WISNS IS GETTG A NEW LGBTQ+ MURAL

 WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Garza said The General Wood Shop will be “a very much clive gay bar” that’ll serve a variety of cktails, spirs, beer and we. A new gay bar, Hard Wood, is g to Fort Park’s nightlife scene, jt about three years after the village’s last remag one, the Hiaway on Roosevelt Road, closed.

“I’ve been wantg to open a gay bar forever, ” Lipka said. Lipka, who is 34 years old, said he grew up gog to some of Fort Park’s now-closed gay bars, like The Nutbh on Harlem Avenue, and had always wanted to open one of his own. Lipka said Oak Park and Berwyn, along wh Evanston, have some of the largt gay populatns the Chigo area.

‘HARD WOOD’ IS FORT PARK’S NEWT GAY BAR

Suburban gay bars, Lipka said, are few and far between. He also add that the bar will most likely have karaoke, trivia, and bgo, wh a “gay twist” and possibly drag shows or baret-style events the upstairs area. Found 1982, the Napale Lounge and Grille Green Bay is the send-olst gay bar the state of Wisns.

“Historilly, gay bars were tucked away rners bee they didn’t want to draw negative attentn that’s often followed them, " she said. Inially, there was a ont door, which has sce been sealed, and was sealed bee vandals would e by to harass the gay muny and throw junk si the bar.

ONE OF THE OLST GAY BARS WISNS IS GETTG A NEW LGBTQ+ MURAL