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- CHIGO HAS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S LONGT-RUNNG BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS — AND IT’S ON THE SOUTH SI
- STUNNG PHOTOS DOCUMENT GAY, BLACK LIFE 1980S CHIGO
- CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN’S CAUCUS
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CHIGO HAS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S LONGT-RUNNG BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS — AND IT’S ON THE SOUTH SI
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“A lot of people that live south have to travel north to Northalsted [to fd a gay bar], ” Stephens said. “It’s still very difficult for a lot of members of the Black and Brown LGBTQ muny, wh beg homosexual or jt beg who they are, ” Stephens said.
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STUNNG PHOTOS DOCUMENT GAY, BLACK LIFE 1980S CHIGO
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For Black, Gay Chigoans, It’s Always Been Jeffery Pub. In the first stallment of our seri on the cy’s olst gay bars, we vis the South Shore stalwart — Chigo’s only black-owned tablishment of s kd. Across the street there on the rner, there was a gay bar lled Maxe’s.
CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN’S CAUCUS
And when Maxe’s abptly closed, even though this was a straight bar, gay people started g here [stead]. By the mid-60s, was fully a gay bar.
“Even around here, there’s not many bars where people n e out and have a good time, let alone [one that's] predomantly gay, unls you go up north to Boystown, " Thompson says. The imag offer a rare glimpse of gay Black life Chigo durg the 1980s, the pivotal perd when the AIDS epimic swept across the Uned Stat.
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The rult was a llectn of thoands of photographs – the fac of those he enuntered both on the streets and at the Rialto Tap, a bar tered to Black gay sgl and ed to be here near the “L” tracks at the rner of Wt Van Buren and State Streets.