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Newell II visual materials collection is now open for research and can be accessed at the Chicago History Museum’s Research Center.
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Finally, Newell’s photographs provide casual, candid looks into a number of LGBTQ establishments, many of which are no longer in business. Gay Guide for Chicagoland Clubs Bars and Nightclubs Windy City Times / Nightspots Gay Business. The collection’s focus on leather also documents the role Chicago has played in that subculture, and the number of prominent events that began in Chicago and continue today. Newell, a 2013 inductee into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, provides important documentation of Chicago’s LGBTQ community as the fight for LGBTQ rights was gaining prominence in American life, against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis. Great neighborhood gay bar that caters to just about every fetish you could think of (within legal limits of course ). Visitors and vendors at Northalsted Market Days, July 1990. ICHi-89115Ī view of the start of the eighteenth annual Pride Parade in Boystown, June 1987. Protesters picket in front of Lakeview Bank, c. Who doesn't love a bar with pool AND a back room. Crazy drink specials, 50 cent drafts on Sundays is the best deal in town. In addition, Newell donated photographs taken for LGBTQ-focused organizations, such as Gay Horizons (a precursor to the Center on Halsted). A classic gay leather bar, but very friendly and welcoming to all. True to his civic engagement roots, Newell also put his camera to use in the daytime to document protests-such as the Gay $ protest of Lakeview Bank-and activism and special events, including the Pride Parade (from 1986 to 1996) and Northalsted Market Days. Mid-America Leather, and numerous others.Ĭouples dance during a country and western night at Carol’s Speakeasy in Old Town. Newell also documented the leather scene in Chicago many of the images are of leather competitions at bars and other venues, including International Mr. The majority of Newell’s collection consists of images from local LGBTQ bars, mostly in the Boystown area, of everything from casual shots of staff and patrons to parties and special events. Chicago Leather competition at Touché, a leather bar in Rogers Park. Daily events include movies, beer bust, gear, underwear, dungeon, ONYX, women, trans, and non-binary. In 1997, he donated approximately 13,000 of his photographic prints and negatives to the Chicago History Museum.Ĭontestants line up for the 1989 Mr. In a nutshell: Touche is Chicago's leather and bear bar since 1977, open nightly till 4am, 5am on Saturday. Newell II worked as a nightlife photographer for two LGBTQ publications-Chicago’s Windy City Times and the Michigan-based Metra Magazine-between the late 1980s and mid-1990s. Archives intern Brienne Callahan talks about a newly processed photograph collection that highlights Chicago’s LGBTQ nightlife and rights activism in the 1980s and 1990s.Īfter years of gay rights activism in Chicago, Lee A.