Junior is also currently the owner of Jeffery Pub - the longest running Black owned gay bar in the City of Chicago and in the country. Established in the 1960s Jeffery Pub has been a staple in the South Shore community serving all ages of the African American LGBTQ community. “We already had the discussion that it would be open to everyone,” he said. Junior owns Williams Inn Pizza and Sports Bar in Chicago’s South Loop and is doing more than serving a tasty dish - he’s paving the way for the next generation of LGBTQ customers and non-alike. He said it’s a recipe she created over 50 years ago.
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Junior said he can’t wait to serve customers his grandmother’s pizza recipe. Jamal Junior is one of Chicago’s Very Own. Now, the businessman is giving the restaurant business a try and hopes to share his grandmother’s pizza recipe with customers in the LGBTQ community and beyond. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĬHICAGO - Jamal Junior is the owner of one of Chicago’s most iconic Black-owned gay bars. That map shows about 65 bars (not including the baths, which are also listed) at that time, primarily concentrated around Polk Street and the Tenderloin.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. You can also check out this great hand-drawn map from the mid-1970s created by pioneering Bay Area Reporter nightlife columnist Richard "Sweet Lips" Walters, who died in 2010. But because of the anecdotal nature of some of these, many addresses are missing, and we're still curious about places like The Question Mark (somewhere on Haight Street) and The Dash, which was said to be a Barbary Coast area bar opened in 1908.
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One culture that died in liberation, and another that died in revolution." As source material, he used ads from vintage gay magazines like Vector and After Dark, and there's also a PDF list that's been kept on the website of the Cinch Saloon, last revised in 1996, that has some 700 bar names on it, most of them with addresses. "A mixture of old queens and young bucks. See the map below, and as Stabile writes for the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History, the hand-drawn ads and matchbooks from this other era of gay bar culture reflects two generations of gay men coexisting in San Francisco in the 1970s. But there are signs of hope, like the reopening of the Eagle, the replacement of Trigger in the Castro with the upcoming Beaux, and the possibility of new life later this year, after over a decade of darkness, at The Patio. Two gay bars have closed already this year, Marlena's and Kok (formerly My Place), and both are becoming mixed bars in the future, just in the interest of foot traffic. Ever heard of Campus, The Purple Pickle, or Nothing Special? Well, filmmaker and gay historian (and GayPornBlog-ger link NSFW) Mike Stabile has done us a solid and created a Google map covering any and every historic gay and lesbian bar he could find an address for. But back in the days before the internet and Grindr, there were two or three times more bars for the homosexual set scattered around town than there are now.
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Last month we brought you a roundup of ads from defunct gay bath houses in town, and about a year ago we showed you a semi-current map of the dozen gay bars that remain in the Castro.