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The northwest suburbs were a lonely place when Hunter was a gay teenager there. Disco dancing was real popular. First time in years that you touched your partner. I knew all the disco moves. That was where he met his wife. Marion Dudley was a Downers Grove widow 20 years his senior who came in for dance lessons and wound up with a business partner.

That was 18 years ago. Three years after the bar opened, Hunter says, he turned his back on his own homosexuality and they married. I made a commitment and I was very happy while I was married. We did everything together. We were with each other 24 hours a day. And I had, you know, heterosexual sex as well.

He still lives in the house they bought together in Barrington, but his hiatus from the gay life is over. The community as a whole in Elk Grove has really not been very bad to us at all. And the police are good—they work with us very well.

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They like our bar because we have so few problems there. And we have wonderful customers. It was the first place that they came out. Call or for information. Call The news you should know in the city you love. Isaacs started out in journalism as a reporter at the St.

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