cocktail lounge

In Chicago, Boystown — with its mix of cocktail lounges, gay bars, nightclubs, parades and drag brunches — has become a well-oiled machine for queer culture in the city.

At this hotel cocktail lounge, they add it to their namesake drink, Pandan.

The entrance to this moody cocktail lounge is located through a bookcase in a nondescript storefront in downtown.

“If you come here, then you will help shape the programming. We are thinking about it like a working-class cocktail lounge.”

“It was,” he recalls, “a different kind of weekend, instead of getting drunk in a cocktail lounge.”