For a brief but wild time the twenti and thirti, an openly gay culture thrived Chigo—a perd historians ll the “Pansy Craze.” Nightclubs and barets drew crowds of homosexuals, lbians, and voyrs—among them, soclogists who dutifully rerd the proceedgs. Recently redisvered rellectns om that era have land the cy the foreont of the small but popular field of gay historil rearch.
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- GAY CHICAGO MAGAZINE
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- GAY CHIGO
- CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI
GAY CHICAGO MAGAZINE
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In 1976, Ralph Pl Gernhardt started a telephone rmatn le which tailed news and events happeng wh Chigo’s gay and lbian muny. That le grew to Gay Chigo News, a weekly tabloid reportg muny happengs, gossip, sportg events, and more. Eventually, this evolved to Gay Chigo Magazee, a natnally regnized entertament gui to gay and lbian life the Chigo metropolan area.
Di Leo was rponsible for the edorial ntent of Gay Chigo Magaze, as well as the publitn’s bs matters.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
The bt gay bars, dance clubs, gay-rated hotels, gay snas and gay cise clubs Chigo. * chicago gay magazine *
The magaze was first published the same size as TV Gui; featured a lendar of events, as well as listgs of bars, bs, and anizatns servg the myriad needs of Chigo’s gay and lbian muny.
Unr the jot learship of Gerhardt and Di Leo, Gay Chigo Magaze was on the ont l the battle agast AIDS. Recently, Gay Chigo Magaze add two more feature wrers: one lumnist foc on gay/lbian bs and the dividuals volved; the send will wre about muny based agenci, their stctur, missns, ernance, fanc, and volunteer opportuni. Wh the Memorial Day issue dated May 23, 1991, Gay Chigo Magaze began publishg a four lor glossy ver format, once aga monstratg the mment of publisher Ralph Pl Gernhardt to produce for Chigo’s gay and lbian muny the ft qualy magaze possible.
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You'll fd many gay bars the Boystown district: a great place to beg if you're visg Chigo. Burgs was rryg out the untry's first extensive rearch project to homosexualy. 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.
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A place lled Diamond Lil's, at 909 North Rh Street, was packed so tight wh partyg gays that people were turned away. 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 nighttime entertaments did not attract jt gays.