LGBT culture in Chicago
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer culture of Chicago / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chicago has long had a gay neighborhood. Beginning in the 1920s there was active homosexual nightlife in Towertown, adjacent to the Water Tower. Increasing rents forced gay-friendly establishments steadily northwards, moving through Old Town and Lincoln Park along Clark Street and on to Boys Town.
Boys Town presently serves as the best-known Chicago gayborhood and as a center of its LGBT culture.[1] In recent years, the area has been criticized for focusing on "affluent white gay men," rather than the broader LGBT community.[2] Gentrification efforts – alongside attempts to rebrand Boys Town as "Northalsted" to remove its LGBT identity – have pushed many LGBT people to reside ever further north into Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park.[3]