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A Taste of Chicago By Aefa Mulholland, OutTraveler.com A constellation of stellar chefs shines from the shores of Lake Michigan, with thrilling new kitchen luminaries constantly adding to the Windy City’s culinary glow. One of the U.S.’s hottest restaurant cities, you certainly have to tuck into Chicago’s distinctive deep-dish pizzas, but save some space for its smorgasbord of other sumptuous options.

Top 5 Cities for Gay Nightlife By G.T. McCallan, OutTraveler.com The beat goes on… and on… and on in these sizzling-hot nightlife cities! You don’t need to sashay south to keep warm this winter: just hit the bars and dance floors at some of the hotspots in our Top 5 cities for gloriously gay nightlife and things will heat up.

Three Gay Days: Chicago By Aefa Mulholland, OutTraveler.com Stretched along 19 miles of shimmering coastline at the southwest edge of the Great Lakes region and sprawling westward into the Midwestern prairie heartland, Chicago continues to surprise locals and visitors alike with a metropolitan safari of eye-popping architecture, internationally renowned museums, and a jumbled pastiche of fiercely territorial ethnic neighborhoods.

Trouble at the Cactus Canyon Campground By Dylan Vox Sometimes it’s just great to be able to get away from all of the comforts of home and Cactus Canyon offers affordable and gay exclusive amenities that are sure to make you feel at home in the outdoors. This small piece of heaven sounds great, but over the past few years it has come under great obstacles because of legal battles and harassment by the neighbors who apparently object to an all male camping facility.

Chicago Gay Games Releases Commemorative DVD By Dylan Vox In an effort to make up the deficit, and just in time for the holiday season, the organizers of the 2006 Gay Games in Chicago have released a feature-length DVD with more than two hours of coverage from the July sports & cultural festival. Including preformances by Margaret Cho, Erasure's Andy Bell, Cyndi Lauper, and Megan Mullally.

Chicago Exploring the lesbian side of Boystown By Ed Walsh I guess I shouldn't have taken it personally. Minutes after I walked into The Closet bar in Chicago's famously gay "Boystown" neighborhood, the only two boys in the bar left. That left me in the bar with about 30 women. I quickly became a regular chick magnet. But that was after I explained that I wasn't there to convert anyone. My mission, I said, was to find out more about the lesbian scene in the Windy City for an article I was writing for the LGBT press.

First Ever Chicago Gay City Guide Tells Gays and Lesbian Where to Go Written by two long-time Chicagoans who earned their field experience while working on the information frontlines of Chicago's gay and lesbian community, The Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago by Kathie Bergquist and Robert McDonald offers readers more than dry listings and advertising-based content.

Chicago By Jim FitzGerald What gay man wouldn't be mesmerized by a town known as 'The City of Big Shoulders'? What roll-up-your-sleeves dyke wouldn't be at home in a town called 'The City That Works'? And what queer of any stripe wouldn't love a town that erects two-story, rainbow-colored pylons throughout the gay ghetto?

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