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Roscoe's is a gay bar in Chicago. It has multiple bars, a dance floor, and an outdoor patio. [1] Logo TV has said the bar is "known as a haunt for younger gay guys and their straight girlfriends". [2] Roscoe's plays music videos and hosts drag performances, [3] as well as karaoke, dueling pianos, and RuPaul's Drag Race viewing parties. [4]
Big Chicks is a gay bar and neighborhood restaurant that opened in 1986 in Uptown, Chicago. [1] It serves a diverse group of LGBT people, straight people and people in the kink community. The owner of the establishment is Michelle Fire. The restaurant next door, Tweet, is also owned by Fire and provides food to Big Chicks.
Sidetrack representation at Chicago's 2013 pride parade. Established in 1982, [6] Sidetrack is owned by Art Johnston and Jose "Pepe" Peña, [7] [8] In 2013, Sidetrack boycotted Stoli Vodka over Russia's anti-gay laws. [9] In 2023, the business announced stopped selling Anheuser-Busch products as part of the Bud Light boycott. [10]
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Recently, in 2019, Lori Lightfoot became at age 56 the first black woman and gay mayor of Chicago. She was inaugurated on May 20, 2019. [16] In June 2019, the Midwest's first drag-centered festival, Chicago Is a Drag Festival, was founded. [21] [22]
The Not for Tourists Guide to Chicago has described the bar as "compact and classy". [5] The guide has also called Marty's a gay bar. [6] Moon Chicago says Marty's "becomes a gay bar late at night". [7] In 2016, Time Out Chicago said of the clientele: "it seems the straight folk tend to show up first for a predinner cocktail and the gay crowd ...
In Lakeview Halsted passes through Wrigleyville, as intersecting with Addison Street, it is only two blocks east of Wrigley Field home of the Chicago Cubs. Halsted is then lined with restaurants, bars and gay bars and clubs as one enters Boystown, Chicago's main gay and lesbian community, running as far as Belmont Avenue. This area also ...
Boystown has grown into a cultural center for the LGBT residents living within the Chicago metropolitan area. [34] [35] The area caters to Chicago nightlife, featuring more than 60 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender bars, restaurants and nightclubs.