Gay In Chuck Renslow, Founr Of Internatnal Mr. Leather, Di At 87 - Boystown - Chigo - DNA

Contents:

• A MORN GAY’S GUI
• GAY IN CHUCK RENSLOW, FOUNR OF INTERNATNAL MR. LEATHER, DI AT 87
• GAYT PLAC IN OREGON FOR 2020
• GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.
• GOLD COAST GAY MAP

A MORN GAY’S GUI

It's a cy wh a vibrant nightlife and splendid natural bety, but if you're gay on the Gold Coast, some discretn is advised, acrdg to some wh the LGBTI+ pots:Whout a dited venue and major events, the Gold Coast's LGBTI+ muny is "sttered and not herent", acrdg to some membersMany LGBTI+ people have to "drs down" their queerns to be acceptedThere are worri that the prospect of Israel Fol playg gby league on the Gold Coast will further rerce the attusThe cy's first annual LGBTI ftival  2015 failed to secure a permanent place on the social lenr and there is still no gay bar on the Gold Coast. A lol gby league club has signed Israel Fol, who matas "no regrets" for sayg on social media that "hell awas" gay rponse, Mayor Tom Tate has urged people to five Fol. "People like to thk of as 'good gays' but once we start exprsg our sexualy, exprsg our ias a way that's non-tradnal, be a b jarrg.

GAY IN CHUCK RENSLOW, FOUNR OF INTERNATNAL MR. LEATHER, DI AT 87

"There are gay nservativ, there are gay liberal voters, there are gay men who wear sus who would be wele any boardroom, " he said. (Supplied: Ellamay Fzgerald)He said the lack of a dited LGBTI+ safe venue, such as a gay bar, had rulted a "distct lack of muny".

GAYT PLAC IN OREGON FOR 2020

'Discreet tradi'After g out as gay at age 24, Jordan Wilkson said he enuntered many men that he scribed as "discreet tradi", who still believed that they uldn't "show their face". CHICAGO — Chuck Renslow, one of Chigo's earlit openly gay entreprenrs, died Thursday, but the longtime activist's leather-clad legacy ntu on. Renslow, 87, died Thursday after multiple long-term health issu and nearly seven s of pneerg the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer bs scene Chigo.

Leather ntt and the Leather Archiv and Mm Rogers Park, but Renslow has a storied history of openg dozens of gay iendly bs around Chigo. Born and raised Logan Square, Renslow me out as a gay man when he was a stunt at Lane Technil High School, he told Baim, who is also the publisher of the Wdy Cy Tim. Wh jt a handful of gay bars Chigo entirely ntrolled by the the Mafia the 1950s, Renslow relled the "very ee atmosphere" they provid, safe om police raids thanks to payoffs om the syndite.

In the early 1960s, Renslow opened Gold Coast bar, one of the first leather bars the world and among the earlit gay-owned bs the cy and went on to be the olst leather tablishment before closed 1987.

GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.

RELATED: Here's Why Gay Bars Are So Important, Explaed By A Chigo Gay In. Ten years later, Renslow heard about the Stonewall Inn rts om a iend and helped anize the first Gay Pri Para Chigo.

GOLD COAST GAY MAP

At that pot, he also owned the drag bar Sparrow's Lounge and ntued to n his semi-nu physique photography stud, Kris Stud, which sent out photos to the gay muny at large. As gay rights rose the public dialogue, Renslow beme more active polilly, phg then-Mayor Richard J. He ntued to blaze trails bs, takg ntrol of the failg GayLife newspaper and startg Triumph, Mars and Rawhi Male magaz.

Renslow hired the first black bartenr at a gay bar and revented bathho Chigo, addg an entertament aspect to Man's Country, which remas open Anrsonville to this day. Named for the whe outfs of guts, the Whe Party grew up to 5, 000 people when such celebratns of gay life were rare. We are an rporated, not-for-prof, muny-based, gay- and genr-diverse-led anisatn.