If you are visiting Chicago’s Boystown during their Pride Week (June 22-30), you should check out some of these bars. Let it be known that there are other gay bars around Chicago but I’ve only been to the ones in Boystown. And like I didn’t! I loved it! I had so much fun there or Chicago’s Gay Village had so much fun with me? LOL… Whatevs….Īs in many cities, an ID is necessary to get inside any of these bars. My friend Jacob (Thanks, J for contributing text to this blog post! You’re hot!) showed me some of his favorite gay bars and eats which he thought I’d like. While most bars are populated with gay guys, there’s a good population of straight allies who are either with their gay BFF or tagging along their boyfriends who mix well with the crowd. It might be a little quiet during the day but it comes alive at night when the hedonists go out and meet their friends or their potential hook ups.Īpparently, heterosexuals aren’t afraid to mix and mingle with the fabulous gender in gay bars and elsewhere. Bars, restaurants, cafes, boutiques and other shops abound the area between Belmont and Addison/Waveland on Halstead and on Broadway Streets. Chicago’s Boystown is to Toronto’s Gay Village or to San Francisco’s Castro, or to Seoul’s Homo Hill, the epicenter of 10.0 magnitude of queerosity! Just like any other gay areas, Boystown is no different: rainbows everywhere.
