Lakeview, the neighborhood that houses Boystown, is predominantly white and affluent, but that wasn’t always the case. The center eventually was renamed the Lesbian Feminist Center, and relocated to a space that’s barely a block away from what is now Center on Halsted, which opened in Boystown in 2007. And the city’s first feminist bookstore and a related women’s center opened in the early 1970s-in a space now occupied by an Allstate insurance branch, just steps away from where the popular gay bar Sidetrack now sits. The first known gay community center in Chicago was a project of the local chapter of landmark lesbian civil and political rights group the Daughters of Bilitis. And people of color have always been central to advancing LGBTQ+ rights. “But on top of that, they are also playing into the whole stereotype of sexism in the gay community.” Women were instrumental in establishing Boystown as a safe space for members of the LGBTQ+ community, Baim says. They are absolutely profoundly misremembering ,” says Reader publisher Tracy Baim, author of Out and Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City’s Gay Community. Sommelier Series (paid sponsored content).
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