'Gay Bar' Tracks The Wave Of A Whole Culture — And One Life : NPR

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• CHIGO HAS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S LONGT-RUNNG BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS — AND IT’S ON THE SOUTH SI
• 'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE
• HOW DID JEFEY DAHMER HARM MILWKEE'S GAY MUNY?

CHIGO HAS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S LONGT-RUNNG BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS — AND IT’S ON THE SOUTH SI

Club 219 was a real gay bar Milwkee, and Jefey Dahmer did vis . Another gay bar, La Cage Aux Foll, opened 1984 and Club 219 stggled to pete.

'GAY BAR' TRACKS THE WAVE OF A WHOLE CULTURE — AND ONE LIFE

Y, Club 219 was a gay bar that Dahmer equently vised to pick up guys and lure them back to his apartment where he would kill them.

HOW DID JEFEY DAHMER HARM MILWKEE'S GAY MUNY?

Y, the gay bar that Jefey Dahmer is shown lurg victims om 'Monster: The Jefey Dahmer Story' is real. ETSource: Netflix Evan Peters as Jefey Dahmer 'Monster: The Jefey Dahmer Story'In the new Netflix seri Monster: The Jefey Dahmer Story, the notor serial killer is picted pickg up multiple victims om a gay bar lled Club 219 near his apartment.

Source: Netflix Dahmer (played here by Evan Peters) would target victims at Club 219Article ntu below advertisementWas the Milwkee gay bar Club 219 a real place? Club 219 was a real, popular gay bar Milwkee. Acrdg to an extensive report om the Wisns LGBT History Project, Club 219 tly got s start January 1981, cementg self as the gay club to be at Milwkee until was eventually eclipsed by another gay bar, La Cage Aux Foll, 1984.

Club 219 beme known as the send-bt gay bar, after La Cage. ” This morphed to Club 219, where a majory of Milwkee’s gay muny would go to party. M., four men were stck by a sedan near the longtime Black gay nightclub Jeffery Pub, acrdg to the Chigo Police Department, Chigo's Fox statn, WFLD, men were pronounced ad at the Universy of Chigo Medil Center; a fourth was serly jured and remas hospalized.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chigo police officials said Monday that a high speed h-and-n that killed three men outsi a well-known South Shore gay bar appears to be an tentnal some groups are llg for the triple fatal to be vtigated as a hate MORE: Disturbg vio shows adly South Shore h-and-n, 2 victims ID'dThe horrific crash, ptured on vio, shows a driver of a sedan racg down 7700 South Jeffery, slammg to several men ont of The Jeffery Pub, a long-time and very popular gay vio, taken om a nearby r, shows the men were the middle of the street fightg at 5 a.

Everythg n change based upon those statements, " said Brendan Deenihan, Chigo Police Chief of I-Team spoke wh Victoria Kirby York, the puty executive director of the Natnal Black Jtice Coaln Washgton, which is llg for the cint to be vtigated as an LGBTQ+ hate crime outsi one of the olst and longt ntuoly nng Black gay bars the natn.

For Black, Gay Chigoans, It’s Always Been Jeffery Pub. 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. Across the street there on the rner, there was a gay bar lled Maxe’s.

And when Maxe’s abptly closed, even though this was a straight bar, gay people started g here [stead]. By the mid-60s, was fully a gay bar.

“Even around here, there’s not many bars where people n e out and have a good time, let alone [one that's] predomantly gay, unls you go up north to Boystown, " Thompson says. But "Trash" appears to have had a slow start, and after jt a few months, January 1981, an ad "Trash up at Club 219" appeared that sentially signaled a morphg to Club 219, and a major chapter Milwkee's gay bar life began. Although extremely popular, Club 219 was surpassed as the premier dance bar by La Cage upon that bar's openg 1984, and after that Club 219 beme the "send" gay dance bar.

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Wele to the web se chroniclgthe History of the Gay/ Lbian/ Bisexual/ Transgenr Communy Wisns. (Please note that we will often e the terms �gay� and �lbian� by themselv on this se.

For example, the Natnal Gay Task Force did not add �Lbian� to s name until 1986. Historians of bisexual activism have noted that many of the earlit �gay liberatn� activists durg the 1970s were bisexuals who saw no reason at the time to distguish their bisexual inty om the gay liberatn movement.

Only later, when some �gay rights� activists began to e the term �gay� a more exclive manner, did bisexual activists and lbians also beg wi e of exclive termology to reprent themselv. There’s a reason so many young queer people flock to Chigo and never leave: the cy’s gay scene is fun as hell.

Boystown, of urse, is the cy’s official gayborhood, wh LGBTQ-iendly bars, rtrant, and clubs occupyg nearly every storeont on Northalsted.

But Chigo’s queer muny exists far outsi the Lakeview enclave—and so do the great gay bars.