The worst thing about Boystown is that there's no clear line of demarcation, it just kind of goes from stores called "Gaymart" and bars called "Cocktail" to Whole Earth Foods on a block-by-block basis with Wrigley Field and confused fratboys who also wear shirts with the word "COCK" on it but with a whole different social implication stumbling around drunk and crying from the rectal leakage right in the middle of it.

From what I hear from old-timers, back in the early 1980s it was Really Gay Boystown. Supposedly you couldn't walk a block without being propositioned if you had two of everything most humans have one one of everything that most males have. But then the whole GRID thing happened and things became less flaming and more gay-positive. That's kind of it in a... ah... nutshell... Less flaming and more gay-positive, in the way that Carly Simon or whatever that publicist's name is wrote a book that was "sex-positive."