This might be stretching the definition of “gay neighborhood” a little bit. We can also create custom tours and original content creation about this Chicago topic and countless others. Join us for our public virtual events or book an exclusive team-building event for your private group. We research Chicago history and architecture like this while developing our live virtual events and custom corporate events. To celebrate LGBT Pride Month, we thought we’d look back at Chicago’s gay neighborhood history before Boystown. I love Chicago’s LGBT History and was pleased to share a presentation on the topic as a public speaker for a corporate client recently.
Our town hosted the country’s first gay rights organization, its first Pride Parade, and much more. Indeed, Chicago has played a huge role in LGBT history in America. Chicago gay neighborhood history stretches back over a century though. It was the first such designation in American history. Daley designated it the city’s official gay neighborhood. Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood made history in 1997 when Mayor Richard M. And thereby taking the top spot in our list.I started thinking about how Chicago being the “City of Neighborhoods” has intersected with the city’s LGBT history. The anime is extremely like Horimiya, except it differs with its office setting, featuring working adults. There’re other pop culture references, along with some light adult humor, circling adult love life. Focusing on otaku culture, this office rom-com presents a highly relatable cutesy love story with realistic character dynamics and minus the unnecessary drama. Will the two otakus be able to work out their relation and stick together?Īs the show’s name suggests, love may be hard for an otaku, but definitely not for us to love this anime. Similarly, Hirotaka, Narumi’s childhood friend, is a gaming otaku who also has a crush on Narumi. Narumi is an otaku and a fujoshi, keeping it a secret. Wotakoi revolves around the story of Narumi and Hirotaka. You will definitely be thinking of Horimiya while watching this anime. Even the main character designs for both shows are quite similar to each other.
And just like Horimiya, both series feel lifelike, as they could really happen in real life. The base of the story and the characters and their growth over time are the main selling points for 3D Kanojo. One who struggles to deal with emotions he has never felt before and one who tries to break the other out of his shell. The story of 3D Kanojo is, thus, of two outcasts. On the other side, Iroha is also an outcast with no female friends, ostracized for blunt and flirtatious behavior. Despite his cold shoulder, she is still friendly with him. One day he is punished to clean the pool for arriving late with a girl named Iroha Igarashi. And thus, is the subject of many boos and jeers in his school.
So much so that he even prefers 2D girls on screen rather than real girls in life.
With a non-existent social life, his life revolves entirely around anime and video games. Hikari Tsutsui is an otaku through and through. It will still make you swoon over all of the show’s pairs and couples, especially of Hikari and Kei. Special A starts out slow but grows into a joyful watch, although not on par with an anime like Horimiya. While the show is heavier on the romantic side of rom-com, there is a fair share of comedy too. The show also focuses on the other members of the Special A class and their relations. But does she fall for Kei too? There’s only one way to know for sure you got to watch it!īeing members of the Special A class comprising the top 7 students, the duo holds the top 2 ranks. Caught up in her competitive rivalry, she is oblivious of his feelings. While she considers Kei as her rival, Kei already had strong feelings for her. She even transferred to the same school, fueling her rivalry. Thereafter she swore to beat Kei in everything from school grades to events and competitions. That was until she lost a wrestling competition with Kei in their childhood. Hikari was always special, best at everything that she did, and remained unbeaten.