CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN’S CAUCUS – Chigo LGBT Hall of Fame

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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
• CHIGO STYLELGBTQ+HOME»EXPLORE»CHIGO STYLE»LGBTQ+CHIGO HAS A WAY OF MAKG EVERYONE FEEL WELE. OUR LGBTQ+ MUNI, IENDLY RINTS, DIVERSE NIGHTLIFE, AND YEAR-LONG PRI CELEBRATNS MAKE ONE OF THE MOST CLIVE CI THE UNTRY. VAR PRELOAD = {}; GET TO KNOW LGBTQ+ CHIGOCOME EXPLORE OUR HISTORIC LANDMARKS, WELG NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THRIVG NIGHTLIFE SCENE.EXPLORE CHIGO'S WELG NEIGHBORHOODSCHECK OUT OUR GUI TO LGBTQ+ NEIGHBORHOODSEXPLORE OUR 2-DAY LGBTQ+ CHIGO ERARYDISVER LGBTQ+ HISTORY WH THE TOURS AND ATTRACTNSFEEL THE PRIPRI IS CHIGO'S DNA. AND WE CELEBRATE ALL YEAR LONG.CATCH THE CHIGO PRI PARA JUNEWHERE TO CELEBRATE PRI MONTH CHIGOEXPLORE YEAR-ROUND LGBTQ+ EVENTS CHIGOKEEP THE PARTY GOG AT THE LOL GAY BARS AND CLUBS.EXPLORE WELG NEIGHBORHOODSEXPERIENCE CHIGO'S VIBRANT LGBTQ+ MUNI, CLUDG THE FIRST OFFICIAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD THE UNTRY.PARTY AT SITRACK BOYSTOWNWHAT DO AND SEE BUZZG BOYSTOWNEAT AND SHOP QUIRKY ANRSONVILLEKEEP EXPLORG

CHIGO HAS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S LONGT-RUNNG BLACK-OWNED GAY BARS — AND IT’S ON THE SOUTH SI

“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.

We didn’t want to exclu our trans siblgs or gay men. Chigo’s Black LGBTQ bargoers — historilly ncentrated on the South and Wt sis due to the cy’s bter legacy of segregatn — have long reported racist behavr gay and lbian bar spac, rangg om unduly thorough ID checks to mic polici that ban hip-hop and rap to explicly racist ments om lol bar owners. “I uldn’t tell you the last time I saw that kd of te diversy a space: gay men and queer women, nonbary and trans folks, people who are Black, Brown, whe, younger, olr… Havg that power is super important and that’s what I’m hopg to see — more spac that are owned, occupied, and ma by .

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.

STUNNG PHOTOS DOCUMENT GAY, BLACK LIFE 1980S CHIGO

Across the street there on the rner, there was a gay bar lled Maxe’s. 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.

CHICAGO BLACK GAY MEN’S CAUCUS

“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. 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.

Chigo Black Gay Men’s Cc, has, for s seven years bridged gaps between tradnal health provirs and nontradnal provirs (club/party, fah, bs) that serve black men who have sex wh men. The Cc provis an array of HIV preventn servic to black MSM of all ag and subgroups Chigo and beyond, cludg youth, multiple-partner MSM, MSM who are not gay-intified, and MSM terted such issu as mental health and sexual addictn.

CHIGO STYLELGBTQ+HOME»EXPLORE»CHIGO STYLE»LGBTQ+CHIGO HAS A WAY OF MAKG EVERYONE FEEL WELE. OUR LGBTQ+ MUNI, IENDLY RINTS, DIVERSE NIGHTLIFE, AND YEAR-LONG PRI CELEBRATNS MAKE ONE OF THE MOST CLIVE CI THE UNTRY. VAR PRELOAD = {}; GET TO KNOW LGBTQ+ CHIGOCOME EXPLORE OUR HISTORIC LANDMARKS, WELG NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THRIVG NIGHTLIFE SCENE.EXPLORE CHIGO'S WELG NEIGHBORHOODSCHECK OUT OUR GUI TO LGBTQ+ NEIGHBORHOODSEXPLORE OUR 2-DAY LGBTQ+ CHIGO ERARYDISVER LGBTQ+ HISTORY WH THE TOURS AND ATTRACTNSFEEL THE PRIPRI IS CHIGO'S DNA. AND WE CELEBRATE ALL YEAR LONG.CATCH THE CHIGO PRI PARA JUNEWHERE TO CELEBRATE PRI MONTH CHIGOEXPLORE YEAR-ROUND LGBTQ+ EVENTS CHIGOKEEP THE PARTY GOG AT THE LOL GAY BARS AND CLUBS.EXPLORE WELG NEIGHBORHOODSEXPERIENCE CHIGO'S VIBRANT LGBTQ+ MUNI, CLUDG THE FIRST OFFICIAL GAY NEIGHBORHOOD THE UNTRY.PARTY AT SITRACK BOYSTOWNWHAT DO AND SEE BUZZG BOYSTOWNEAT AND SHOP QUIRKY ANRSONVILLEKEEP EXPLORG

It has quickly tablished self as a rource hub for creative and vg HIV-preventn programmg among black gay and bisexual men, which is evinced by creasgly well-attend meetgs and special events as well as the numbers of webse hs and requts for technil assistance. And we celebrate all year the Chigo Pri Para JuneExplore welg neighborhoodsExperience Chigo's vibrant LGBTQ+ muni, cludg the first official gay neighborhood the at Sitrack BoystownKeep explorgDisver more Chigo LGBTQ+ gems, om historic landmarks to ol boutiqu to top drag shows.