The fresh, new enclave of gay bars isn’t tucked away in Boystown or even Andersonville—it’s on the Glenwood Arts District strip in Rogers Park, or as bar owner Colm Treacy calls it “Gay North.”
“I know some people have referred to his area as Boystown North, but there are just as many lesbians in the neighborhood—which is why I think of it simply as Gay North,” explains Treacy, 45, co-owner of the new martini bar Sidecar Bar, the latest LGBT establishment to take root in Rogers Park.