To celebrate LGBT Pri Month, we thought we'd look back at Chigo gay neighborhood history before Boystown.
Contents:
- COOK COUNTY FORT PRERV, GAY CISG & PUBLIC INCENCY
- GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
- CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI
- GAY SEX THE CY
- THE BT GAY HANGOUT SPOTS OF HALSTED
- CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI
- CHIGO GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY
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COOK COUNTY FORT PRERV, GAY CISG & PUBLIC INCENCY
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Every major cy – cludg Los Angel, New York Cy, San Francis and Chigo – have a large gay prence where some men seek out hidn and public plac to engage sexual relatns. The Illois statut agast homosexualy were revoked back 1961. Sce then, Chigo has bee a hub for gay men and women.
In the past, gay men would cise well-known gay bars; however, the police ught on to the lewd nduct after a while and started makg regular raids of the tablishments. More recently, 's been assumed to be safer for gay men to search out sex more public plac than is to be a gay bar.
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GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
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Gay Nightlife Boystown, Chigo: Bt Bars, Clubs, & More. Wh a rich history of LGBT activism and a flourishg muny, Chigo offers one of the bt gay nightlife scen the untry, particularly Boystown. Although s formal name is Lakeview, Boystown is the more monly ed named for this famo gay neighborhood.
CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI
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It's here where you'll fd the hight ncentratn of gay-iendly bars and clubs, where everyone is wele to be themselv and take pri who they are and who they love. In Boystown, gay bars abound on and between the ma thoroughfar of Halsted and Broadway. Sitrack: This immensely popular gay vio bar is a by multi-level bar that appeals to gay men and lbians of all ag, although do tend to lean towards the preppier si.
Rose's Tavern: One of the great legends of gay Chigo nightlife, this food-servg bar has remaed fun, relevant, and by sce opened 1987. Berl: A iendly dance club on the by Belmont Avenue, Berl has been a gay nightlife mastay Chigo for many years, s succs due largely to s e-one-e-all vibe.
GAY SEX THE CY
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Srlet: This smopolan, upsle gay lounge and dance club is known for s dandy drk specials and sleek r. K Kat Lounge and Supper Club: One of Lakeview's swankier mixed gay-straight loung and eateri, K Kat is a retro-hip hangout.
All the gay bars, rtrants, and clubs will have somethg special planned durg this month and the fect rabow-spir spreads across Chigo. The bt place to enjoy the para is Boystown, where the energy level will be at s gayt, proust, and most fun.
Much of the gay scene this neighborhood is foced along Halsted, Belmont, and Addison Streets.
THE BT GAY HANGOUT SPOTS OF HALSTED
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Although Chigo has among the greatt selectn of gay nightspots the untry, the majory of the hangouts - om bars and diss to LGBT-popular rtrants - are popular mixed rintial-mercial neighborhoods on the north si of the cy. You n fd extensive lists of tablishments the Chigo Lakeview Gay Nightlife Gui and the Chigo Anrsonville Gay Nightlife Gui. Fortunately, there are a uple of very fun gay nightspots right the heart of downtown, not to mentn an almost endls supply of terrific rtrants, many of them wh mixed gay/straight followgs.
Addnally, on the cy's South Si, you'll fd a pair of gay bars that ter predomantly to Ain-Amerin patrons, Club Espe and Jeffery Pub. It's also a b of a distance to reach the bars, but they're both legendary nightspots that are well-worth checkg out, pecially given that many of the natn's gay Ain-Amerin hangouts have steadily disappeared over the years.
Here's a more -pth look at the Downtown and South Si Chigo gay social tablishments. Also take a look at the Chigo Gay Bathhoe and Sex Club Gui, which has plenty of advice on where to meet guys lookg to hookup around Chigo.
CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI
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Club Espe, South Si - gay bar. 75th St., 773-667-6454) is one of two long-nng gay bars on Chigo's Southsi, terg largely to the cy's sizable Ain-Amerin GLBT crowd (the other is the Jefey Pub). Jeffery Pub, South Si - gay bar.
One of the most historic gay bars Chigo, Jeffery Pub (7041 S.
Jeffery Blvd., 773-363-8555) opened on this cy's South Shore more than 40 years ago and has been ground zero for the cy's Ain-Amerin gay muny ever sce. Baton Show Lounge, Downtown - gay bar.
CHIGO GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY
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One of the longt-nng gay clubs the Midwt, the que fabulo Baton Show Lounge is also one of the untry's most illtr female impersonatn barets. It's also one of only a few Chigo gay tablishments downtown ( the Near North neighborhood, at 436 N. that if gay people had tried to claim that they were "normal" 1961,.
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At Jackhammer (6406 N Clark St), an old, nu Asian guy (who is a fixture on the gay scene and reportedly some sort of judge) is twirlg around buck naked the ma bar to the amement of onlookers, eventually stg down near the stage where the go-gos shake . membership-only “anizatn for gay men who have an tert fistg or handball”.