Zachary Blair

As the writing continues, I thought I should post this article published in 1983 in the Chicago Tribune titled, "Dollars, votes promote gay power." The article opens up with a description of gay life at Broadway and Clark Street and includes a timely reference to "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" (I hope you are watching Feud). This intersection was, for a relatively brief timespan, known as the center of Chicago's gay ghetto. Just a few blocks south of present-day Boystown,

I spent this week doing a lot of revisions and going back to the archives, page by page, flipping through resources like Chicago Gay News, Gay Chicago Magazine, Blazing Star, Gay Crusader, Lavender Woman, and Windy City Times. Here are some of my favorites, which you will not see as part of my dissertation. My favorite pieces of gay art work published in the 1970s: Berlin was always, and will always be, my favorite nightclub in Chicago. This is a sampling of their advertiseme