![]() But the gay community has "room to grow, room to become something more," he said. ![]() Stafford loves Boystown, and it's part of why he chose to live in Chicago. "That whole night reframed how I looked at Boystown," Stafford said. He'd faced racism in Boystown before - "I don't date black people," men would casually say to him - but that night, he was especially shaken by how a person of color was treated on Halsted. Cars stopped in an attempt to pick him up as a prostitute. Cops stopped him to check his bags for drugs. Old friends ignored his hellos on the street. ![]() BOYSTOWN - Zach Stafford, a 23-year-old mixed-race writer from Tennessee, had a rude awakening when he dressed up in drag in Boystown one night.
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