The Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago
The Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago is a chatty, opinionated guide to gay and lesbian life in the Windy City written by two longtime residents who have the scoop on where to stay, where to go, and what to do for big gay fun in the Windy City.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of gay and lesbian people visit Chicago for events like the Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade (which annually attracts more than 400,000 participants and spectators) and the equally gay Halsted Street Market Days. Many more come to the city for non-gay-specific reasons: to visit family and friends, to sightsee, to attend conventions at McCormick Place, the world’s biggest convention center, or to take in a trade show at the Merchandise Mart. Up until now, no guidebook existed addressing the specific needs and interests of these travelers.
From the introduction:
For years, both of us have worked within Chicago’s GLBT community, and in the midst of our work and play, we have appreciated the diversity of its offerings. As book clerks in gay- and lesbian identified shops, we both have also served many years on the information front lines for visitors to Chicago, answering their questions about where to stay, play, or pray, where to two-step, or where to 12-step.
This is our field guide to the lesbian and gay Chicago that we know and love. It contains the field notes we have accrued in our many, many collective years in the homosexual midst and queer fringes of this city. We love Chicago, and frankly, while we don’t know everything, we do know a lot.
The Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago is the first and only book to give gay and lesbian residents and travelers the inside scoop on gay-friendly accommodations, shopping, sports and recreation, music, theater, dining and nightlife in the Windy City. Topics covered in the guide include transportation, safety, Chicago’s gay history, the “gayborhoods,†bars and nightlife, sightseeing and sex. Not only is the Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago the essential gay and lesbian guide to the city, it is the only gay and lesbian guide to the city.
A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago
by Kathie Bergquist and Robert McDonald
$15.95
Lake Claremont Press
Available at www.womenandchildrenfirst.com
Your local GLBTQ-postitive indie bookstore
and, of course, www.Amazon.com.
