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CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS

Chigo queer bars like Nobody's Darlg Anrsonville and pop-ups like Peach Prents parti are evolvg beyond lbian and gay bars of the past. * gay and lesbian bars in chicago *

There’s a reason so many young queer people flock to Chigo and never leave: the cy’s gay scene is fun as hell.

CHASG ‘PHANTOMS OF THE PAST’: 8 GAY AND LBIAN BAR ARCHIVISTS ON PRERVG LGBTQ+ NIGHTLIFE HISTORY

Fd the top gay bars Chigo, Northalsted (aka Boystown) and beyond. Disver the bt LGBTQ+ nightlife around Chigo. * gay and lesbian bars in chicago *

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. Whether they clu drag, dancg, or are div—or a ltle b of all three—Chigo’s bt gay bars have a ltle somethg for everyone. Gay Edgewater rints of all ag ll themselv regulars at this iendly, sual dive bar.

This Uptown spot featur a relatively mixed-genr clientele ( the scheme of gay bars). Wh no distguishg signage outsi, this unmarked dive is much more discreet than s very gay clientele is.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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Sitrack is generally herald as the kg of Chigo gay bars, and not for no reason: the sprawlg plex featur five different bars year-round.

Add another two the summertime, when the upstairs pat—one of Chigo’s bt, gay or straight—is open for bs.

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Not only is the Jefey Pub one of the olst gay bars the untry, ’s also the only black-owned LGBTQ bar Chigo.

Angela Barn and Renda Riddle, -owners of Nobody’s Darlg, scribe as “a lbian bar, and a gay bar, and a queer bar, and a trans bar. ”Riddle said other women the queer muny share her personal experience of feelg unfortable spac that are gay cis male-domated, so was important Nobody’s Darlg, which opened late May, was tentnal about welg those who have felt exclud and unsafe. Wh the creatn of the ter, gay and lbian bars that served as plac to nnect wh other members of the muny were replaced by virtual socializg onle, she said.

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