The History of Chigo’s Boystown: Examg the Past, Prent, & Future of the Cy’s Inic Gay Neighborhood

Contents:

• WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
• EXAMG THE PAST, PRENT, AND FUTURE OF CHIGO'S FIRST GAY NEIGHBORHOOD
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• U.S. CONGRSWOMAN MARY GAY SNLONREPRENTG PENNSYLVANIA'S 5TH DISTRICT

WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?

Some Republins once said Joseph Ziegler, the Internal Revenue Service agent who ttified before Congrs Wednday about possible terference the vtigatn of Hunter Bin, was biased Bin’s favor bee he’s a gay man and a Democrat. “People have said, bee I’m gay and that I am workg as the se agent on this vtigatn, that I mt be a far-left liberal, perfectly placed to f some agenda. “One of them is a gay Democrat who’s married to a man.

The report clud a photo of Joseph Ziegler and his hband, Newsweek not, pl the assertn that the hband was nnected “at least socially” to Demetre Daskalakis, a gay physician who has worked the New York Cy health partment and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, and later was appoted by Joe Bin as puty ordator of the rponse to the mpox outbreak. Every June, ci around the world hold pri ftivals and paras to honor the anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisg – the 1969 protts that are often nsired the lnchg pot of the morn gay rights movement. Many pri activi are held LGBT+ neighborhoods, cludg Chigo’s Boystown – first-ever gay neighborhood that was officially regnized by a large cy.

Chigo’s Boystown was officially regnized as the cy’s gay district 1997, though the neighborhood was rich wh LGBT+ history for many years prr.

EXAMG THE PAST, PRENT, AND FUTURE OF CHIGO'S FIRST GAY NEIGHBORHOOD

As Tracy Baim, a gay historian and founr of the Wdy Cy Tim, scribed to the outlet, “ the ‘60s gay muni were sttered around the cy, wh many of the muni … centered around downtown, River North, and Tower Town the mid part of the last century. The LGBT+ muny Chigo also began openg s first health centers, muny centers, and bars at the begng of the ‘70s, creasgly alcg around the area that would eventually be known as WBEZ scribed, the morn-day boundari of Boystown really began to take root the 1980s, as a variety of gay bars began to pop up along the neighborhood’s now-famo Halsted Street.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

Notably, gay bars not only veloped as entertament venu for the LGBT+ muny, but also as sential muny spac and activism grounds as the LGBT+ movement grew. “Across the untry, LGBTQ Amerins turned to bars and nightlife to provi an pe om pervasive prejudice, and to rve out spac of their own, ” Patrick Sisson wrote a 2016 Curbed article examg the history of gay bars. ”Moreover, the creasg ncentratn of gay bars on Halsted Street beme a physil reprentatn of solidary and empowerment the LGBT+ muny.

“… Havg a clter of gay-owned tablishments the Lakeview neighborhood was important. It helped gay people feel like they had a place where they belonged, ” Steven Jackson and Jason Nargis of WBEZ wrote.

“The North Halsted Street area ntued to attract gay bs and rints, and wh a few years, the street was velopg an LGBTQ inty. ”Communy-Buildg Gay Bars Spur Neighborhood InvtmentThe preponrance of gay bars on Halsted and the sense of muny they spired subsequently enuraged many members of the LGBT+ muny to move to and vt the neighborhood around the bars. Daley, signated the neighborhood as Ameri’s first officially regnized gay village 1997.

U.S. CONGRSWOMAN MARY GAY SNLONREPRENTG PENNSYLVANIA'S 5TH DISTRICT

“When Chigo signated Halsted Street as a gay neighborhood … that was the first time a U.

Cy had officially signated a neighborhood as beg ‘gay, ’” William Greav, the director for Chigo’s advisory uncil on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr issu said to Time Out Chigo. “The gay populatn is beg ls ncentrated as s legal, polil, and social realy is creasgly accepted.