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 ...

In this special Curious City presentation, we tackle a question from Jack Floyd about how Boystown became Chicago’s official ... with archival photos and a map of LGBTQ establishments over ...

The result of the Chicago Neighborhood Project is an unofficial map of the city's geographical makeup that feels more official than the one drawn in the 1920s. After all, what could be more ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...