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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]
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]
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.
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.
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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.
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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 ]