Travel magazines implored readers to explore the "gay man's fantasy playground" replete with glory holes, dark corners, and a BDSM dungeon with slings, crosses, and other fetish objects.

[4] Bijou Video produced hundreds of gay pornographic films,[5] many of which featured famous porn stars such as Al Parker[6] (e.g.

[4] The Bijou Boys Erotic Cabaret featured solo performances by local and national male dancers.

The cabaret began to shift from typical go-go boy show to an avant-garde, high production value venue under the direction of Miss Tiger.

Cast members included a few of the dancers from the erotic cabaret but were mostly singers and actors from Chicago's thriving community theater scene.

Miss Tiger would later write a popular advice column for Nightspots, a weekly Chicago LGBTQIA entertainment magazine.

The diversity and inclusiveness featured in these productions garnered a following of show goers, that often included heterosexual men, women and couples, who would have otherwise never visited Bijou Theater.

[15] He has had several legal bouts and disputes with law enforcement over the years, including a conviction for tax evasion in the late 1980's and a number of obscenity indictments.

Toushin was inducted into the Founders Branch of the Adult Video News Hall of Fame at the 2009 AVN Award Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

gay pornographic feature film, Him by Ed D. Louie, which focused on a young man with a sexual fixation on Jesus Christ.

[17] On September 21, 1976, co-owner Paul Gonsky was murdered by Frank Schweihs, a criminal who often robbed pornography stores in the Old Town neighborhood.

[16] As with many other Gay and Lesbian Theater during the 1960's, the presence of these communities allowed others to express themselves freely and spread ideas of acceptable and identity in a safe place.

It allowed the conversation to open up about sexual health and safety in LGBT spaces, exhibiting how pornography should not be strictly heteronormative.