Charlie's Chigo, Chigo Gay Bar | Rabow Inx

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• CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• “I THK WE HAVE A GAY BAR”

CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS

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“I THK WE HAVE A GAY BAR”

The South Shore staple is also one of Chigo’s first black-owned gay bars, makg all the more meangful for the spot’s many regulars.

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Come for happy hour, Sunday afternoon mimosas, or late StoryLookg for a gay bar near downtown Chigo? Technilly, the old guys were stg a gay bar now, but they didn’t know or didn’t re. Fire, who prevly bartend at a late-night gay bar lled the Loadg Dock, had never seen anythg like Sundays she oked.

She wanted to thank the old guys—hell, the gay guys weren’t exactly knockg down the door—and, bis, they looked like they uld e a meal. Four years, five years, until the sexy gay boys fally showed a cince that thgs started to change the mute she put a piece of art on the walls? “I thk we have a gay bar, ” he three m, Fire’s first piece of art for Big Chicks.

Big Chicks never f neatly to the gay bar mold.

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Photo by W Frazer“The unmon energy of muny”“When you travel around the untry, you realize how homogenized everythg has bee, ” Fire says to me. She’s not talkg about gay bars specifilly, but that’s where my md go.