Man's Country, the longt nng gay bathhoe Chigo, is closg after 44 years wh a fal farewell New Year's Eve.
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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
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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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)To Owen Keehnen, a Chigo thor and historian, the loss of Man’s Country is “a gay versn of seeg the hoe you grew up torn down. 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.
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"They weren't necsarily gay bands playg, " Ehemann says.
The anizers were spired by the avowedly sexual atmosphere at IML and wanted to merge to the gay mic Cross, a native Arkansan, me to Chigo seven years ago to do sketch edy but stead found a llg as a DJ. "Man's Country typifi that old-school, sleazy vibe that pre-HIV gay life had, and I feel like this is re-creatg that a ltle b.
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