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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]
The Chicago Sun-Times has called Sidetrack "one of the world's top gay bars". [11] Sidetrack ranked first in Time Out Chicago's 2023 list of the city's best LGBTQ+ bars. [3] Sidetrack has been called the "most popular bar in Illinois" by BuzzFeed and "one of the 50 top gay bars in the US" by Yelp. [12]
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.
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Boystown presently serves as the best-known Chicago gayborhood and as a center of its LGBT culture. [2] In recent years, the area has been criticized for focusing on "affluent white gay men," rather than the broader LGBTQ community. [ 3 ]
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.
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.
Outside of Boystown, Lakeview is a mixture of both gay and straight citizens and families, but Boystown is the main gay village. [21] Boystown began with a cluster of bars on North Halsted Street and blossomed into an entire district dedicated to LGBT life and culture in the 1980s.