Gay 18+ clubs Chigo... - LGBTQIA+ Travel Fom - Tripadvisor

Contents:

• CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS
• GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CHIGO
• GAY 18+ CLUBS CHIGO... - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI

CHIGO GAY BARS AND CLUBS

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).

GAY NIGHTLIFE BOYSTOWN, CHIGO: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

Come for happy hour, Sunday afternoon mimosas, or late StoryLookg for a gay bar near downtown Chigo? June’s Chigo Pri Ftival, one of the largt annual gay pri ftivals the untry, and Chigo Pri Para, which attracts an timated one ln spectators, are among the summer’s stars. Gay bathho: Sex and socializg As the public bathho had almost pletely disappeared, a different kd of bathhoe had bee central to Chigo’s gay male muny.

This opened the door for openly gay bathho to set up shop for the first time, although gay men had already been equentg some bathho for several s. In The Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow, historian and journalist Tracy Baim intifi three bathho popular wh gay men Chigo the 1950s. Chigo gay pneer Chuck Renslow opened “Steve’s Health Club, ” his first gay bathhoe, shortly after the repeal of the sodomy laws, but acrdg to Baim, tolerant police forced to close a few months later.

Now the cy’s longt-nng gay bathhoe, Man’s Country is a sprawlg pound wh two three-story buildgs filled wh private rooms, fetish areas, dance floors, a wet room, and a locker room.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS CHIGO

” Ehemann says gay bathho, cludg Man’s Country, began to cle wh the arrival of HIV/AIDS the mid-1980s.

Ehemann is bullish about the future of gay bathho Chigo as a bs — but mostly as sex and dance clubs; he says the muny’s sire for social and civic space now liv on LGBT anizatns like the Center on Halsted.

Private bathho: Sweat and relaxatn Chigo’s public bathho are closed, and s gay bathho are far ls popular than they once were, but private Rsian- or Korean-style bathho that foc on relaxatn are boomg.

GAY 18+ CLUBS CHIGO... - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

Whether was a social gatherg the gay muny when you didn’t have a lot of optns … was jt fillg a need each of the muni. "So much of our life is the bars, and that's where so much gay history took place, " Karl told The Advote. 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.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

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. 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. "They jt go to any bar they want to bee they feel fortable dog that, which is what we fought for all those years -- that gay people uld go anywhere and be accepted anywhere.

CHIGO GAY NIGHTLIFE GUI: DOWNTOWN & SOUTH SI

"Unfortunately, now 's bg the gay bs muny the ass, bee people don't feel as much of a need to go to gay bars. " So far, however, the feared "epic spl between Chigo gay bars and morn gay activism" has not happened.

""There's always disagreements the gay muny, that's how we advance, " la Croix said. "I thk Chigo there will always be a gay entertament district, bee they learned their lson early on and started buyg the properti when they moved to what is now known as the Halsted area and Anrsonville, " Karl said.

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