Tag: Doug Ischar

  • When Chicago’s Belmont Rocks were a ‘gay paradise’

    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…