Sidetrack is the iconic place for Chicago Boystown. Boystown is built on the foundation of gay bars. Sidetrack opened in 1982 when no support organizations or community centers existed in the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's iconic "Boystown" neighborhood has changed its ... of a very broad community," he explained. Alen said map creators will have to decide on their own if and when to ...

Many pride activities are held in LGBT+ neighborhoods, including in Chicago’s Boystown – first-ever gay neighborhood that was officially recognized by a large city. Following the conclusion of ...

The famed LGBTQ neighborhood "Boystown" in Chicago is changing its nickname after an online petition claimed it wasn't inclusive of women, gender nonbinary individuals and people of color.

To keep Boystown or to not keep Boystown? That is the question some Chicago residents are debating after a petition launched to change the city's eastern Lake View neighborhood nickname.

Boystown, Chicago’s historic gay neighborhood, has played a central role in the LGBTQ community’s fight for equal rights. What began in the 1970s as a strip of gay bars in East Lakeview ...

Visitors and residents of the “Boystown” region of the North Side ... and is the center of the Chicago Pride Parade, which will celebrate its 50th year this summer. The alliance expects ...