The bar is still playing videos and serving cocktails. The reality is that not much has changed. Each time I walk through the doors of Sidetrack I get the same rush and feeling. I think I have written about this before but having recently been to Sidetrack and it being Pride month, it is one of those feelings that I remember and will never forget. The moment I walked into a bar with all or mostly all men I took a huge sigh of relief, “THIS is what it is supposed to feel like to walk into a bar,” is what ran through my mind. The next week was the first time I ever went to Boystown and it felt normal and exciting and everything I needed and had been longing for for so long. I’m married now and honestly, don’t go out much to Boystown, but there was a time in my life that Boystown gave me life! I came out when I was 26, in August of 2002. I recently went to Sidetrack, one of the most popular gay bars in Chicago, for the first time in a long time.
I had been in many bars before the age of 26, but it was never like that one time, that one time that I walked into a gay bar, for the firsttime.
