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• CHIGO STYLELGBTQ+HOME»EXPLORE»CHIGO STYLE»LGBTQ+CHIGO HAS A WAY OF MAKG EVERYONE FEEL WELE. OUR LGBTQ+ MUNI, IENDLY RINTS, DIVERSE NIGHTLIFE, AND YEAR-LONG PRI CELEBRATNS MAKE ONE OF THE MOST CLIVE CI THE UNTRY. VAR PRELOAD = {}; GET TO KNOW LGBTQ+ CHIGOCOME EXPLORE OUR HISTORIC LANDMARKS, WELG NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THRIVG NIGHTLIFE SCENE.EXPLORE CHIGO'S WELG NEIGHBORHOODSCHECK OUT OUR GUI TO LGBTQ+ NEIGHBORHOODSEXPLORE OUR 2-DAY LGBTQ+ CHIGO ERARYDISVER LGBTQ+ HISTORY WH THE TOURS AND ATTRACTNSFEEL THE PRIPRI IS CHIGO'S DNA. AND WE CELEBRATE ALL YEAR LONG.CATCH THE CHIGO PRI PARA JUNEWHERE TO CELEBRATE PRI MONTH CHIGOEXPLORE YEAR-ROUND LGBTQ+ EVENTS CHIGOKEEP THE PARTY GOG AT THE LOL GAY BARS AND CLUBS.EXPLORE WELG NEIGHBORHOODSEXPERIENCE CHIGO'S VIBRANT LGBTQ+ MUNI, CLUDG THE FIRST OFFICIAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD THE UNTRY.PARTY AT SITRACK BOYSTOWNWHAT DO AND SEE BUZZG BOYSTOWNEAT AND SHOP QUIRKY ANRSONVILLEKEEP EXPLORG
• CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• MOVG TO LGBT CHIGO, ILLOIS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• CHIGO IS ABOUT TO HAVE THE GAYT CY COUNCIL IN THE COUNTRY
• THE CHIGO AREA GAY & LBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

CHIGO STYLELGBTQ+HOME»EXPLORE»CHIGO STYLE»LGBTQ+CHIGO HAS A WAY OF MAKG EVERYONE FEEL WELE. OUR LGBTQ+ MUNI, IENDLY RINTS, DIVERSE NIGHTLIFE, AND YEAR-LONG PRI CELEBRATNS MAKE ONE OF THE MOST CLIVE CI THE UNTRY. VAR PRELOAD = {}; GET TO KNOW LGBTQ+ CHIGOCOME EXPLORE OUR HISTORIC LANDMARKS, WELG NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THRIVG NIGHTLIFE SCENE.EXPLORE CHIGO'S WELG NEIGHBORHOODSCHECK OUT OUR GUI TO LGBTQ+ NEIGHBORHOODSEXPLORE OUR 2-DAY LGBTQ+ CHIGO ERARYDISVER LGBTQ+ HISTORY WH THE TOURS AND ATTRACTNSFEEL THE PRIPRI IS CHIGO'S DNA. AND WE CELEBRATE ALL YEAR LONG.CATCH THE CHIGO PRI PARA JUNEWHERE TO CELEBRATE PRI MONTH CHIGOEXPLORE YEAR-ROUND LGBTQ+ EVENTS CHIGOKEEP THE PARTY GOG AT THE LOL GAY BARS AND CLUBS.EXPLORE WELG NEIGHBORHOODSEXPERIENCE CHIGO'S VIBRANT LGBTQ+ MUNI, CLUDG THE FIRST OFFICIAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD THE UNTRY.PARTY AT SITRACK BOYSTOWNWHAT DO AND SEE BUZZG BOYSTOWNEAT AND SHOP QUIRKY ANRSONVILLEKEEP EXPLORG

June’s Chigo Pri Ftival, one of the largt annual gay pri ftivals the untry, and Chigo Pri Para, which attracts an timated one ln spectators, are among the summer’s stars.

And we celebrate all year the Chigo Pri Para JuneExplore welg neighborhoodsExperience Chigo's vibrant LGBTQ+ muni, cludg the first official gay neighborhood the at Sitrack BoystownKeep explorgDisver more Chigo LGBTQ+ gems, om historic landmarks to ol boutiqu to top drag shows. Whether you’re searchg for thrivg nightlife or unrground culture, check out the bt gay neighborhoods that Chigo has to offer. However, as a gateway for immigrants s past, this gay-iendly Chigo neighborhood has always remaed welg to newers of any background.

While you won’t fd the same flamboyant nightlife scene as Boystown, Pilsen has plenty to offer those seekg the bt gay areas Chigo. Our gay and lbian bars have a ltle b of somethg for everyone, wh late-night loung, dance clubs, burlque and drag shows, and long-standg neighborhood waterg hol almost every rner of the cy. And each wh their own unique history and out some of the bt gay bars and clubs to experience Chigo’s LGBTQ+ nightlife scene.

CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS

The South Shore staple is also one of Chigo’s first black-owned gay bars, makg all the more meangful for the spot’s many regulars. Come for trivia, the ee Sunday night buffet, and the themed dance parti — then e back the next morng for bnch at attached sister rtrant ClosetYou n’t talk about gay bars Chigo whout talkg about Northalsted (also known as Boystown). 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.

MOVG TO LGBT CHIGO, ILLOIS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

”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. “Back the day, (lbian bars uld survive) bee that was the only place you uld meet gay women and get to know them or date them or whatever.

[ Eatg out stg more as Chigo rtrants emerge om the panmic — and price hik may not slow down anytime soon]Gay bars some of their earlit days were where activists me together to mobilize, om fightg for marriage equaly more recent years to Summ’s “Gay $” project that bated AIDS discrimatn by markg paper money to monstrate the purchasg power of the queer muny. Before bars were safe plac for the LGBTQ muny, private hom were the only optn for those worried they uld lose their jobs or their fai if they were ught a gay bar.

”That kd of change tak time, Meadows said, and there isn’t a mol that guarante succs, bee many lbian bars tered to a specific muny that was crisis and need to be served after beg exclud om the gay muny, which stilled a sense of protectivens and hop the future of bars general would be everyone feelg wele wherever they go — but there’s still a long way to go before that’s a realy. A century ago, and long before Lori Lightfoot was elected the first openly gay mayor of Chigo, the cy was home to LGBTQ rights fluencers such as Henry Gerber and Pearl Hart. Known as the “Guardian Angel of Chigo’s Gay Communy, ” Hart is one of the first female attorneys to practice crimal law Chigo and equently fends untls gay men arrted bars and tea rooms.

CHIGO IS ABOUT TO HAVE THE GAYT CY COUNCIL IN THE COUNTRY

(Handout)1924: The first Amerin gay rights anizatn, The Society for Human Rights, is created by German immigrant and Chigo rint Henry Gerber.

THE CHIGO AREA GAY & LBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

”1950: Jazz tmpeter Ernte “Ty” Davis opens the club Ty & Ruby’s Gay Spot wh her partner Ruby Lus the 2700 block of South Wentworth Avenue Chigo.

30, 1956, psychologist Evelyn Hooker livers her paper “The Adjtment of the Male Overt Homosexual, ” which was published a year later, at the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn Conventn Chigo. (Chigo Tribune)1965: Lbian pulp novelist Valerie Taylor and lawyer Pearl Hart, among others, tablish Mattache Midwt, the cy’s first succsful gay rights anizatn. The se mak to the Supreme Court and Klepak is Liberatn Front members march through Bughoe Square (now Washgton Square Park) on their way to a rally at the Civic Center (now Daley Plaza) on June 27, 1970, as part of Chigo's first Gay Pri Week.

(Anthony Robert La Penna/Chigo Tribune)1974: The Chigo Gay Medil Stunts Associatn creat Howard Brown Memorial Clic, a place where gays and lbians n receive unselg and sexually transmted fectns ttg and treatment.

1977: On June 14, 1977, thoands gather outsi the Medah Temple to prott Florida orange juice spokwoman Ana Bryant, who opposed gay Harold Washgton attends a gay rights rally Lln Park on July 1, 1984. 1991: The Gay and Lbian Hall of Fame, later renamed the Chigo LGBT Hall of Fame, is created Chigo, honorg people and anizatns who have ntributed to the cy’s LGBTQ muni.