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But now the neighborhood is home to more gays, lbians, bisexuals, and transgenr people than any other area Chigo, cludg the well-known LGBTQ enclave of Boystown, acrdg to a recent report by real-tate webse Tlia. “It was a gay iendly barbershop even before they had gay employe, ” Wood said.