Gay Nightlife Boystown, Chigo: Bt Bars, Clubs, & More

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• MAN'S COUNTRY, CHIGO'S OLST GAY BATHHOE, CLOSG AFTER 44 YEARS
• GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

MAN'S COUNTRY, CHIGO'S OLST GAY BATHHOE, CLOSG AFTER 44 YEARS

Chigo's olst gay bathhoe closed forever on New Year's Day 2018. EtienneChigo lost a piece of gay history 2018, when Man's Country, the cy's olst bathhoe, closed s doors after 44 years. Author and historian Owen Keehnen said the loss of Man's Country was "a gay versn of seeg the hoe you grew up torn down.

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GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

You are aware that Steamworks is a private club for gay/bi men wh public nudy and pornography. Man’s Country, the gay bathhoe Uptown, is closg, ppg 44 years of bs wh a 13-hour party that will beg New Year’s Eve and extend to the morng private club has been open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 364 days a year, closg only on Christmas Eve, acrdg to owner Ron Ehemann.

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The olst gay bathhoe Chigo is closg s doors after s New Year's Eve party. ”When Man’s Country opened 1973, the tim were rapidly changg for the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng muny Chigo and natnwi. A 1986 Chigo Tribune story, “AIDS turns gays om bathho, ” noted attendance at Man’s Country averaged 600 people whereas two years before more than 2, 000 men would arrive on a Saturday night.

(RELATED: 28 Photos of Gay Bathhoe History Chigo)The heady urban hedonism of gay liberatn fed Man's Country's early years.