To celebrate LGBT Pri Month, we thought we'd look back at Chigo gay neighborhood history before Boystown.
Contents:
- GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
- CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
- CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI
- CHIGO GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY
GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
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CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
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Wh a rich history of LGBT activism and a flourishg muny, Chigo offers one of the bt gay nightlife scen the untry, particularly Boystown. Although s formal name is Lakeview, Boystown is the more monly ed named for this famo gay neighborhood. It's here where you'll fd the hight ncentratn of gay-iendly bars and clubs, where everyone is wele to be themselv and take pri who they are and who they love.
In Boystown, gay bars abound on and between the ma thoroughfar of Halsted and Broadway. Sitrack: This immensely popular gay vio bar is a by multi-level bar that appeals to gay men and lbians of all ag, although do tend to lean towards the preppier si. Rose's Tavern: One of the great legends of gay Chigo nightlife, this food-servg bar has remaed fun, relevant, and by sce opened 1987.
Berl: A iendly dance club on the by Belmont Avenue, Berl has been a gay nightlife mastay Chigo for many years, s succs due largely to s e-one-e-all vibe.
CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI
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Srlet: This smopolan, upsle gay lounge and dance club is known for s dandy drk specials and sleek r. K Kat Lounge and Supper Club: One of Lakeview's swankier mixed gay-straight loung and eateri, K Kat is a retro-hip hangout.
All the gay bars, rtrants, and clubs will have somethg special planned durg this month and the fect rabow-spir spreads across Chigo. The bt place to enjoy the para is Boystown, where the energy level will be at s gayt, proust, and most fun. Much of the gay scene this neighborhood is foced along Halsted, Belmont, and Addison Streets.
CHIGO GAY NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY
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. Jeffery PubOne of the cy’s olst gay bars, Jeffery Pub is a neighborhood stutn.
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).
Come for happy hour, Sunday afternoon mimosas, or late StoryLookg for a gay bar near downtown Chigo? Although Chigo has among the greatt selectn of gay nightspots the untry, the majory of the hangouts - om bars and diss to LGBT-popular rtrants - are popular mixed rintial-mercial neighborhoods on the north si of the cy. You n fd extensive lists of tablishments the Chigo Lakeview Gay Nightlife Gui and the Chigo Anrsonville Gay Nightlife Gui.