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- GAY CHICAGO MAGAZINE
- GAY CHIGO MAGAZE
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- GAY CHIGO MAGAZE, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
- THE FAL DAYS OF GAY CHIGO
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GAY CHICAGO MAGAZINE
For a brief but wild time the twenti and thirti, an openly gay culture thrived Chigo—a perd historians ll the “Pansy Craze.” Nightclubs and barets drew crowds of homosexuals, lbians, and voyrs—among them, soclogists who dutifully rerd the proceedgs. Recently redisvered rellectns om that era have land the cy the foreont of the small but popular field of gay historil rearch. * gay chicago magazine *
Wele toAnInterview wh gay wrer Bore Hadleigh - Page 6DJ Tom Stephan the flh at Furball - Page 10Beach and Peach:. In 1976, Ralph Pl Gernhardt started a telephone rmatn le which tailed news and events happeng wh Chigo’s gay and lbian muny. That le grew to Gay Chigo News, a weekly tabloid reportg muny happengs, gossip, sportg events, and more.
Eventually, this evolved to Gay Chigo Magazee, a natnally regnized entertament gui to gay and lbian life the Chigo metropolan area. Di Leo was rponsible for the edorial ntent of Gay Chigo Magaze, as well as the publitn’s bs matters.
The magaze was first published the same size as TV Gui; featured a lendar of events, as well as listgs of bars, bs, and anizatns servg the myriad needs of Chigo’s gay and lbian muny. Unr the jot learship of Gerhardt and Di Leo, Gay Chigo Magaze was on the ont l the battle agast AIDS. Recently, Gay Chigo Magaze add two more feature wrers: one lumnist foc on gay/lbian bs and the dividuals volved; the send will wre about muny based agenci, their stctur, missns, ernance, fanc, and volunteer opportuni.
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Breakg News Wdy Cy Tim, the voice of the Gay Lbian Bisexual and Trans Communy. Lol Chigo, Natnal World News, and polics * gay chicago magazine *
Wh the Memorial Day issue dated May 23, 1991, Gay Chigo Magaze began publishg a four lor glossy ver format, once aga monstratg the mment of publisher Ralph Pl Gernhardt to produce for Chigo’s gay and lbian muny the ft qualy magaze possible. Burgs was rryg out the untry's first extensive rearch project to homosexualy. For a brief time the late 1920s and early 1930s, siar scen unfold up and down the cy, as a relatively open gay culture thrived Chigo, wh gay barets and nightclubs proliferatg throughout the Near North and South sis.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Wdy Cy Tim News - Craig Gernhardt who once was the publisher of the now-funct Gay Chigo has died at age 61, acrdg to Tribute Archive. His father, Gay Chigo Magaze -founr and Chigo LGBT Hall of Fame ductee Ralph Pl Gernhardt, passed * gay chicago magazine *
A place lled Diamond Lil's, at 909 North Rh Street, was packed so tight wh partyg gays that people were turned away. The historian Chad Heap has noted that the flowerg of gay life at that time vered much of the cy's ethnic landspe: "Ain Amerin drag entertaers performed for racially mixed dienc at some of the South Si's most famo ‘black and tan' [barets]. The nighttime entertaments did not attract jt gays.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
Gay Uned Stat News and Entertament * gay chicago magazine *
High society and the middle class flocked to the barets to gawk or to experience the prient thrill of dancg wh one of the "homos. " The so-lled Bughoe Square ont of the Newberry Library was such a well-known pickup spot that the Chigo Gray Le Sightseeg Company clud on s Chigo-By-Night tour, advertisg the promise of "the unual, strange and different" "gay night life. Wh s wildly relaxed attus, Chigo's Pansy Craze, as the brief phenomenon has e to be known, emerged om Prohibn jt as homosexualy first me to be regnized this untry as a distct sexual orientatn.
"Massive wav of immigrants om Europe and the Amerin South were arrivg Amerin ci so that whe middle-class urban beme fascated wh explorg the new muni takg place their midst, whether immigrant, bohemian, black, or gay.
GAY CHIGO MAGAZE, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989
Feel the pri and get to know LGBTQ+ Chigo. Explore our gay travel gui to Chigo, cludg historic landmarks, neighborhoods, and nightlife. * gay chicago magazine *
He assigned dozens of his stunts to take not at nightclubs, terview gay men and a few women, and wre term papers on the subject.
Thanks part to Burgs's studi — which anticipated Aled Ksey at Indiana Universy by a — Chigo has been the foreont of rearch to gay history, once a ty field but now creasgly popular. The untry's two most proment historians of gay life work here: Chncey at the U.
Their universi host doctoral stunts rearchg gay topics, unheard of as an approved amic enavor only a or two ago.
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'" In s famo 1911 report on prostutn and other illic activi, The Social Evil Chigo, the Chigo Vice Commissn scribed a homosexual subculture of "at least 20, 000, " which had veloped s own nt and works. ) Surprisgly to many, however, homosexualy was a visible and even accepted part of workg-class street life the first s of the 20th century.
In his celebrated book Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, Profsor Chncey showed that until the 1930s, workg-class men engaged sex wh other men whout feelg that they were abnormal. In those days, most wiv didn't engage oral sex, and to get , a man typilly had to fd a prostute or a gay man.
But Chncey poss that after the voyristic slummg durg the Pansy Craze, the middle class nstcted a view of homosexuals as different om themselv, as "the other.
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The North Si neighborhood boasts Vietname rtrants, untry mic, and gay bars. * gay chicago magazine *
Throughout the Midwt, tal of Chigo's eedoms reached secreted gays. Burgs llected a May 1934 letter wrten by a Sagaw, Michigan, man named Bill to a Chigo iend: "Y, I did hear of your gay parks and beach, " Bill wrote. Back Sagaw he had to lie low bee "as for gay plac there jt aren't any town.
New York Cy was the other urban mag for homosexuals the 1920s and 1930s. As Chncey documents Gay New York, barets Greenwich Village and Harlem headled female impersonators and gay-oriented entertaments.