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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.