![]() Guerilla Gay Bar South Loop Chicago, with more than 1,000 members, organizes nightlife events in that neighborhood, and the now-defunct Big Gay Cocktail Hour ran from 1999 to 2010 as a traveling meetup with a charity angle.īy January, Heller hopes The Welcoming Committee will be offering between three and five events each month in Chicago. The Welcoming Committee is not the first organization to have the idea of a roving gay bar in Chicago. Membership in the Committee is free, and the location for the inaugural Oct. ![]() "We want to give it back to the gay community in an awesome way." ![]() "We look for iconic places where a comfort gap exists for LGBT people," Heller said. Heller declined to name specific Chicago venues he's working with as partners - and he always works with the places the group "takes over" - but he's busy gathering input about what's historic, iconic and special about Chicago.įor example, in Boston, The Welcoming Committee brought 750 people to a Red Sox game and has organized trips to a Connecticut casino that's a popular weekend destination for Bostonians. 3, it will land in Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. and Philadelphia after its initial launch in Boston, and on Oct.
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