The Gay ’30s – Chigo Magaze

Contents:

• CHANTAJE, CULPABILIDAD Y CEL TRATAMIENTOS: ASí ERA SER GAY O LBIANA EN EL HOLLYWOOD DORADO
• HOMBR GAYS Y BISEXUAL MAYOR 30 AñOS EN CHILE: 12,5% REPORTA TENER VIH Y 74,9% HA SIDO DISCRIMADO POR SU ORIENTACIóN SEXUAL
• ¡ELLOS SON LOS 8 GAYS LATOS MáS FAMOSOS Y SEADOS!
• ESTAS SON LAS 10 MEJOR SERI GAYS LA DéDA

CHANTAJE, CULPABILIDAD Y CEL TRATAMIENTOS: ASí ERA SER GAY O LBIANA EN EL HOLLYWOOD DORADO

Le pedí a un pañero piso que me jara su moto; gí el gaymap que tengo en mi por s hace ya más tr años y salí a la lle a br un acermiento a mi primera experiencia gay.

Drté un par ss os que funcnan a puerta cerrada —y que ds sabe lo que hay ntro— y me fui directo al Gayxample [divertido juego palabras entre el nombre l barr l "Eixample" y la palabra "gay". Y scubrí que en las diss gays los baños son un y las las más rápidas porque se mea dos en dos, o hicimos Pablo y fal nos fuimos la diste y yo dudaba si nos iríamos da uno a sa o si Pablo tenía algún otro plan, pero o íbamos enrollándonos por la lle taba servido y feliz y cualquier opción me parecía bastante bien.

HOMBR GAYS Y BISEXUAL MAYOR 30 AñOS EN CHILE: 12,5% REPORTA TENER VIH Y 74,9% HA SIDO DISCRIMADO POR SU ORIENTACIóN SEXUAL

For a brief time the late 1920s and early 1930s, siar scen unfold up and down the cy, as a relatively open gay culture thrived Chigo, wh gay barets and nightclubs proliferatg throughout the Near North and South sis. The historian Chad Heap has noted that the flowerg of gay life at that time vered much of the cy's ethnic landspe: "Ain Amerin drag entertaers performed for racially mixed dienc at some of the South Si's most famo ‘black and tan' [barets].

" The so-lled Bughoe Square ont of the Newberry Library was such a well-known pickup spot that the Chigo Gray Le Sightseeg Company clud on s Chigo-By-Night tour, advertisg the promise of "the unual, strange and different" "gay night life. Wh s wildly relaxed attus, Chigo's Pansy Craze, as the brief phenomenon has e to be known, emerged om Prohibn jt as homosexualy first me to be regnized this untry as a distct sexual orientatn. "Massive wav of immigrants om Europe and the Amerin South were arrivg Amerin ci so that whe middle-class urban beme fascated wh explorg the new muni takg place their midst, whether immigrant, bohemian, black, or gay.

¡ELLOS SON LOS 8 GAYS LATOS MáS FAMOSOS Y SEADOS!

Thanks part to Burgs's studi — which anticipated Aled Ksey at Indiana Universy by a — Chigo has been the foreont of rearch to gay history, once a ty field but now creasgly popular.

'" In s famo 1911 report on prostutn and other illic activi, The Social Evil Chigo, the Chigo Vice Commissn scribed a homosexual subculture of "at least 20, 000, " which had veloped s own nt and works.

ESTAS SON LAS 10 MEJOR SERI GAYS LA DéDA

In his celebrated book Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, Profsor Chncey showed that until the 1930s, workg-class men engaged sex wh other men whout feelg that they were abnormal. But Chncey poss that after the voyristic slummg durg the Pansy Craze, the middle class nstcted a view of homosexuals as different om themselv, as "the other.

Burgs llected a May 1934 letter wrten by a Sagaw, Michigan, man named Bill to a Chigo iend: "Y, I did hear of your gay parks and beach, " Bill wrote. Homosexuals themselv ed the words "faggot, " "fairy, " and "queer, " or they sometim lled themselv "temperamental, " but the soclogists were not que sure what term to e. My own vtigatn to Chigo's gay history began a roundabout way, when I started rearchg a book on Allerton Garn, a botanil masterpiece on the Hawaiian island of Kai found by a Chigoan, Robert Allerton, and his lover, John Gregg Allerton.