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Best of Chicago > GLBTQ > Gay Bar for Straight People
The Sidetrack

Best Gay Bar for Straight People, Reader's Choice and readers' choice: Sidetrack (showtunes night)

Jim Newberry

Reader’s Choice

Sidetrack

While Big Chicks and T’s, with their reputations for friendliness, seem like obvious choices, and the devil on my shoulder wants me to recommend the Chicago Eagle or Little Jim’s, the reason I’ll go with Sidetrack as the best gay bar for straights is the overall nonthreatening wholesomeness of the place. Every guy you see could pass for safe and comforting Will Truman or Jack McFarland, and the regulars tend to gather in groups, so cruisiness is minimal (not that every single straight person in a gay bar doesn’t think he or she is being relentlessly cruised anyway). Furthermore, the always joyful and riotous showtunes nights (Monday night, and Friday and Sunday evenings) give straights an opportunity to embrace their inner ’mo. Arrow 3349 N. Halsted, 773-477-9189, sidetrackchicago.com. —Kathie Bergquist

Readers’ Choice

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