Tag: Chicago
A Place To Be
When Abel (Nelson Rodriguez) meets Diego (Andrew Saenz ) it is literally love at first sight. These two young Latino men living in Chicago instantly bond in what we assume is going to be a gentle romantic story. However one day their world is upturned when Diego suddenly discovers that his mother is dying back home…
When Chicago’s Belmont Rocks were a ‘gay paradise’
Any gay man of a ‘certain age’ who grew up in the Chicago area in the 1970’s & 1980’s would have most certainly spent some summer days at Belmont Rocks the city’s lakeside gay cruising area. On a large grassy expanse punctuated on one side by a series of tiered limestone blocks that separated the…
Are gayborhoods being ruined by gentrification ?
Is the gentrification of gay neighborhoods a bad thing, and if so what do we do if we can not stop it? Zach Stafford the Editor-in-Chief of INTO a digital magazine from GRINDR and he took a look at the current state of Chicago’s Boystown one of the country’s oldest gayborhoods, and the first one to…
