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Halsted St. In s place, Howard Brown would build a new health clic that would double the pacy of s nearby center at 3245 N. Halsted St. </p><p>After 45 years bs, the owners of Ltle Jim’s Tavern are retirg and sellg the buildg at Halsted Street and Cornelia Avenue, ownership said. In early 2019, the buildg that ho Ltle Jim’s and other lol bs went up for sale wh an askg price of $7.5 ln, <a href=">Chigo Magaze reported</a>. </p><p>“In planng the disposn of the property, we hoped s new e would prerve the character of North Halsted Street,” Ltle Jim’s owner, who is not named, said a statement. “We are thrilled that Howard Brown Health is planng to acquire the se to ntue our legacy of muny support and service.”</p><p> It’s not clear when the bar would close for good, however.</p><p>Howard Brown’s plans for the Ltle Jim’s se ll for a new buildg that would provi primary re appotments, sexual and reproductive healthre and behavral health servic, the LGBTQ-foced health group said a statement. The proposed buildg would clu street-level retail space, though plans for the space have not been solidified, a source faiar wh the plan said. </p><p>The velopment would require a rezong and Cy Council approval, said Trsa Feher, chief of staff to Ald. Jam Cappleman (46th). Cappleman’s office is workg to receive more rmatn about the plans and schle muny meetgs on the rezong requt. </p><p>“Out of all the velopers that me to , we’re pretty exced that Howard Brown is terted the space,” Feher said. “Howard Brown is such a good neighbor. It seems to be the bt plan we’ve seen.” </p><p>The proposed revelopment of the Ltle Jim’s lotn uld be pleted by 2022, acrdg to Howard Brown. Once pleted, Howard Brown will relote s clic at 3245 N. Halsted to the new facily.</p><p>Opened 1975 by Jim Gat, Ltle Jim’s Tavern was the first gay bar Boystown and the <a href=">send-olst gay bar</a> Chigo. As the neighborhood blossomed to a gay-iendly nightlife hotspot, Ltle Jim’s beme the longt-nng bar Boystown. </p><p>In 2017, the bar expand to the neighborg storeont wh a new spot lled Big Jim’s. </p><p>Ltle Jim’s is now an inic and highly visible neighborhood gatherg place. But the cy was not always as acceptg of such tablishments. In s early days, Ltle Jim’s had darkened wdows to protect the safety of s ctomers, bar management prevly <a href=">told Chigo Magaze</a> a feature on the tavern.</p><p>In 2014, Gat sold Ltle Jim’s to the buildg’s landlord, a Philalphia-based vtor. Gat was seekg a buyer as he was set to retire to Florida, he told <a href=">the Wdy Cy Tim</a>. </p><p>Ltle Jim’s director of operatns did not return requts for ment. </p><p>Howard Brown’s plans for the Ltle Jim’s se is jt one part of a massive expansn of the non-prof health provir. </p><p>The health re group is also lookg to relote s Broadway Youth Center om 4009 N. Broadway to a to-be nstcted buildg at 1023 W. Irvg Park Rd. At the se, Howard Brown will build a five-floor, 20,000-square foot to hoe s youth programs and clil servic, the health agency has announced. </p><p>Howard Brown is also seekg to build a muny center on the South Si, and is workg wh lol groups to intify an area and servic that are need the most, acrdg to the anizatn. The se uld be open by 2024. </p><p>The major expansn as mand for health servic among LGBTQ muni has skyrocketed. Long wa-tim and service paci have plagued some Howard Brown facili, the anizatn’s learship said a statement. </p><p>The new health center at the Ltle Jim’s se would double the pacy of the existg Halsted Street center and help alleviate long wa-tim at Howard Brown’s flagship lotn at 4025 N. Sheridan Rd., the anizatn said. The youth center relotn would help the agency serve about 2,000 addnal kids a year. </p><p>Howard Brown currently has 15 lotns throughout the Chigo area. </p><p>“As the need for LGBTQ affirmg healthre servic ntu to grow, Howard Brown is rpondg wh bold plans that will crease pacy cywi to serve more people than ever before,” David Ernto Munar, print and CEO of Howard Brown Health, said a statement. “We’re exced to take the next steps towards makg our mol of re more accsible for all who seek our servic.”</p><p><em>Do stori like this matter to you? </em><a href="><em>Subscribe to Block Club Chigo.</em></a><em> Every dime we make funds reportg om Chigo’s neighborhoods.</em></p><p><em>Already subscribe? </em><a href="><em>Click here</em></a><em> to support Block Club </em><a href="><em>wh a tax-ductible donatn</em></a><em>.</em></p><div style="height:1px;left:0;marg:0 to;posn:absolute;poter-events:none;right:0;top:50%;width:1px" id="wp-irvg-gtm-article-midpot"></div></div></div></div><div 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LTLE JIM’S, THE FIRST GAY BAR IN BOYSTOWN, CLOSG FOR GOOD

Often scribed as the gay "Cheers," Ltle Jim’s opened 1975 and was the first gay bar Boystown and the send-olst gay bar Chigo." class="" style=" * jim gay bar *

BOYSTOWN — The olst gay bar Boystown is closg s doors for good Thursday night after 45 years Jim’s Tavern, 3501 N.

Halsted scribed as the gay Cheers, Ltle Jim’s opened 1975 and was the first gay bar Boystown and the send-olst gay bar Chigo. ”Soon after s openg, more gay bars followed and the divey, late-night spot beme both a Boystown stutn and one of the longt-nng penntly owned bars the said Jim Gat, the tavern’s origal owner, was actively volved the LGBTQ muny, helpg fund Equaly Illois at s begng and donatg to lol social service agenci or gay rights Tavern’s legacy is that was the first and only bar on Halsted Street to be fully tegrated, Garcia other bars had strict drs s or mic rtrictns that targeted Black and Lato people — some of which still exist recent years — the tavern always stayed above , acrdg to Garcia. “I’m sad for people who never got the chance to e here bee they were pulled away to the glz and glamour of other gay bars.

In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

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In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them. Worse, that perd reprented the height of ignorance and fear about Aids, as well as the peak ath toll the gay muny the wt, greatly impactg how the muny was viewed.

“Aids took what was, at bt, a level of difference towards gay people and turned to revulsn, ” said Green. Between 1987 and 1994 the cy saw a greater number of killgs than any other stretch more than half a that benighted era, gay bars were often ‘the one refuge om the perils of everyday life’, says Green. ’ Photograph: Wonwoo Lee/Getty Imag/Image SourceI n speak to the equency of vlence the gay muny back then.

HOWARD BROWN TO BUY PNEERG GAY BAR LTLE JIM’S FOR A MAJOR EXPANSN IN LAKEVIEW

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In that same time ame, a close iend was gay-bashed to unnscns by a gang of young men, g a days-long stay the hospal, and I was punched so hard the stomach outsi a gay dance club I thought the guy mt have ed a hammer.

Several years later, on a sunny day on Christopher Street (then the center of New York’s gay life), a man g an anti-gay ephet smashed my bt iend the head wh a rock. ”Meanwhile, the officer did story at the re of Last Call ptur a time the cy, and the liv of gay men, that seem far removed om the current one. Back that benighted era, gay bars were often “the one refuge om the perils of everyday life”, said Green.

At the same time, was a particular type of gay man equentg a specific kd of bar, who tend to be the victim this se. As to why he elud jtice the s, Green said, “most likely the jury believed that this was a gay man attackg another gay man and they didn’t re about the circumstanc. Given a chance to acqu, they took ” the same time, Green said that he “ultimately realized that the killer (who was himself gay) was laborg unr the same societal nstrats his victims were.

"WE NEVER THOUGHT WE'D MAKE A YEAR": MNEAPOLIS GAY BAR CELEBRAT 45 YEARS BS

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While Green believed homophobia played a major part that, he also said “cisns that law enforcement ma ntributed to the long lay. Club Rippl, an inic Long Beach gay bar that’s been part of the fabric of the LGBT muny for more than 40 years, will say a fal goodbye this weekend.

LONGTIME CHIGO GAY BAR LTLE JIM’S UP FOR SALE

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It beme a gay bar the 1950s, though that closed 1968. “It was a rtrant and an inic gay place, ” Garcia said, “and never went straight and he sold to Mary Azar.

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It was Hebert’s first time gog to gay bars. And Hebert and Garcia are proud of what they’ve done– not only operatg the longt-nng gay bar Long Beach, but also beg activists the muny.

In 1992, for example, Garcia started the Gay Chamber of Commerce. Howard Brown Health is talks to buy the buildg that ho Boystown’s olst gay bar, Ltle Jim’s Tavern, 3501 N. Halsted to the new 1975 by Jim Gat, Ltle Jim’s Tavern was the first gay bar Boystown and the send-olst gay bar Chigo.

As the neighborhood blossomed to a gay-iendly nightlife hotspot, Ltle Jim’s beme the longt-nng bar Boystown.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

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Forty-five years on, the Boystown mastay is an tergeneratnal mosaic of Chigo’s gay muny. ) is Boystown's olst extant gay bar.

Among the tablishments on the strip is legendary Boystown gay bar Ltle Jim's Tavern.

One of Chigo's olst gay bars, Ltle Jim’s origally opened 1975, acrdg to a 2014 report by the Wdy Cy Tim. Should the tavern shutter, would be the latt a strg of neighborhood stutns to do so, cludg Sp Nightclub and Gay Mart 2014, Halsted's Bar & Grill 2016, and Hollywood Mirror earlier this year. Gay Batka for The New York TimIn Febary 1969, Mart Boyce moved to the Manhattan apartment where he would live for the next 50 years.

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Evadg police harassment was a fact of life for gay people like Mr. Boyce, the route police stops, regular attempts at entrapment and raids of tablishments equented by gays all ntributed to an atmosphere which beg gay meant feelg hunted. ”53 Christopher Varney for The New York TimThe Stonewall Inn, a seedy gay bar on Christopher Street, was different thgs to different people.

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Segal both relled havg to sneak around librari when they were younger for rmatn about gays, which, at the time, meant scientific lerature that characterized homosexualy as a mental Boyce mentned Tennsee Williams’s growg fame and Tman Capote’s self-pretg TV appearanc as evince that “we weren’t totally isolated.

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Police raids were monplace for gay bars across the untry the 1960s and 1970s, cludg The Saloon. It kd of beme you know, a sacred place where people uld e and tell their stori and be who they were, " Moore was motivated to stay open bee of his experience wh discrimatn as a gay man. In 1967, when he was 17, he wnsed a murr Lorg Park, which he says police would not rpond to bee they believed the victim was gay.

"When gay marriage passed, I felt for the first time my life like I was part of the fabric of Ameri, " said Moore.

The Saloon still operat as a safe space to this day, Moore says, though has shifted om beg a gay men's bar to beg more a queer space.

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In the first stallment of our seri on the cy’s olst gay bars, we vis the South Shore stalwart — Chigo’s only black-owned tablishment of s kd. Closg out our historil gay bar seri is this unr-the-radar downtown hiaway, which has provid a refuge for lols and tourists alike for 35 years.

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Club Rippl, Long Beach’s inic gay bar, to close doors after s of service to muny – Prs Telegram .

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