Boystown’s olst gay bar is set to close, acrdg to Block Club Chigo.
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GAY CHIGO
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RIP Gay BarsCi around the untry and globe have seen many of their most beloved gay and lbian waterg hol close down — often after the area's queer populatn dispers or the owner simply gets priced out.
[RELATED: 26 Dead (Or Dyg) Gay Bars NYC, L. "So much of our life is the bars, and that's where so much gay history took place, " Karl told The Advote.
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7Karl got the ia for the book while remiscg wh iends about the gay bars Chigo. For years, la Croix wrote a lumn the gay papers lled Chigo Whispers, which later beme a book of the same name, where he'd terview people about bars om as far back as the Prohibn era of the 1920s and '30s.
There was no gay Catholic group, none of that stuff. "Near the end of the book is a sectn lled "Shared Spac, " listg addrs that were home to several gay bars and clubs over the Meat Market, cir 1989-1994. 5"Illois was the first state to crimalize homosexualy, 1961, " la Croix said.
"All the obv homosexuals the Midwt livg small towns, drag queens and thgs, they all thought, This isgreat, so they all moved to Chigo. That rptn actually gave gay people a space Chigo.
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45This plited relatnship between the ps and the gay muny led to some arne l for bar patrons.
It's not about alhol at all -- 's about gay life.
"One thg we've been asked before is how young people don't go to gay bars as much anymore, " Karl said.