In the early 1960s he opened the Gold Coast, one of the first openly gay businesses in Chicago and one of the first leather bars in the world.
INDIVIDUAL | Inducted 1991 Ī true pioneer in Chicago’s gay and lesbian community, Chuck Renslow opened Kris Studio in 1954 and began publishing a variety of male physique magazines he is considered one of the “old masters” of gay male photography in the United States.
