Boys Town

Boys Town or Boystown may refer to:

  • Boys Town (organization), an organization dedicated to the housing and education of at-risk children, founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan
  • Boys' Town (Engadine), a residential school for boys with behavioural issues in Engadine, New South Wales, Australia
  • Boys' Town Public School, an English medium school in Nashik, Maharashtra, India
  • Boystown, Chicago, a gay village in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Boys Town, Nebraska, a suburb of Omaha, Nebraska, USA, and the headquarters of the Boys Town organization
  • Boys' Town, Sri Lanka, a suburb of Ragama, Sri Lanka
  • Boy's Town (prostitution), a district in a Mexican border city that is formally designated for legalized prostitution
  • Boys Town (film), a 1938 film about Father Flanagan and his work, starring Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, with Henry Hull and Leslie Fenton
  • Boystown (film), a 2007 Spanish film
  • Boyztown, a gay and underage red-light district in Pattaya, Thailand.

Famous quotes containing the words boys and/or town:

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    For maidens who were wont to sit and gaze
    Upon the grass, relinquished to their feet.
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    Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,
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    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)