The Northalsted Business Alliance announced last week that it will now be known and advertised as Northalsted to be inclusive of all genders, and ‘Boystown’ will be eliminated from all marketing campaigns.
The new slogan for Northalsted will be ‘Chicago’s Proudest Neighbourhood’. Devlyn Camp, a non-binary activist who uses they/them pronouns, wrote in the petition: “The Castro, Greenwich Village, West Hollywood, and many more.
LGBTQ neighbourhoods exist for all intersections of queer identity. Chicago’s is the only gendered nickname. “Systemic transphobia, racism, and sexism have plagued our neighbourhood for decades, and it begins at the top, with the all-male board of the Northalsted Business Alliance.