Happy Pri Month! Milwkee's LGBTQ bar scene is gog strong - primarily on and around Send Street - and ntu to offer fun, safe spac for everyone, gay or straight.
Contents:
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- HERSCHEL WALKER’S SON PRI MONTH TO REMD EVERYONE… HE’S NOT GAY
- GAY WALKER, MD
- DR. GAY MCMAN WALKER, MD
- WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?
- GAY WALKER
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
In the '70s and '80s, wealthy women like Barbara? Walters and Jackie O often left their hbands at home to be squired to galas by gay men, and for the few rts still actn, the "walkers" appeal endur. * gay walkers *
“And wasn’t a regular occurrence for gay men to show up at galas together, so arrivg wh a woman on their arms was an acceptable alternative.
Now a dyg breed, walkers have gone by the waysi as social norms have changed, wh gay male upl and solo women htg the town.
” One notor se of a mistaken walker wh benefs occurred 2001 when hotel mogul Leona Helmsley fired her walker, Patrick Ward, also an employee, when she disvered he was gay; Ward won a $10 ln su for wrongful termatn. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.
HERSCHEL WALKER’S SON PRI MONTH TO REMD EVERYONE… HE’S NOT GAY
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(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.
GAY WALKER, MD
“The origal ‘gay neighborhood,' if you would, [ Milwkee] was the 400 block of North Plankton," says Michail Takach, thor of LGBT Milwkee. This neighborhood was home to the cy's first known gay bars. * gay walkers *
In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office.
He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group. He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.
DR. GAY MCMAN WALKER, MD
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To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. There’s a good reason why Walker’s Pot is fondly referred to as "The Gayborhood" – the near South Si neighborhood has been home to many gay people, fai, bars and rtrants for s.
Today, the LGBTQ bar scene is still gog strong – primarily on and around Send Street – and ntu to offer fun, safe spac for everyone, gay or straight. Here are 10 Milwkee gay bars to check out durg Pri Month or whenever:.
WHY DO GAY MEN WALK SO FAST?
The tth behd Twter’s favore stereotype about gay men, as explaed by GQ ntributor Louis Stapl. * gay walkers *
This Is It opened 1968, makg one of the top 10 longt-nng gay bars the untry, and possibly one of the top five. Referred to by the owner as "The gay 'Cheers' of Milwkee, " Woody's has stood proudly on the south-end of the Gayborhood for 22 years. Loted Riverwt, Art Bar is gay-owned and gay-and-straight iendly, but also serv as a hub for Milwkee's art scene, pool scene and as a neighborhood gatherg place.
For this week's Bubbler Talk, WUWM tackl this qutn submted by Hannah Kaytonah: Is Walker’s Pot really a ‘gay’ neighborhood? Before we dig to the history of Milwkee's gay muny the neighborhood jt south of the Third Ward, we need to nsir how neighborhoods are fed. “The origal ‘gay neighborhood, ’ if you would, was the 400 block of North Plankton, " says Michail Takach, thor of LGBT Milwkee.
This neighborhood was home to the cy's first known gay bars. What was once the first known neighborhood wh gay bars on Plankton Avenue was torn down to make way for the eeway system.
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The bars were active between 1949 and 1965 until dozens of cy blocks were torn down to make room for a downtown eeway system, takg the first known gay neighborhood wh .
"The send gay neighborhood movg further south down 2nd Street to the 100 and 200 south blocks, had really matured, " explas Takach. ”Acrdg to Takach, while gay bars the area were thrivg 1974, The Milwkee Journal warned s rears, "If you drive south on S. "Takach not that throughout Milwkee’s history, gay bars were fact everywhere.
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Milwkee, a gay bar Walker's Pot. “When we talk about a gay neighborhood, starts wh that sense of muny, " he says. Takach says that the rise of the gay bars the neighborhood was not a surprisg rult of yet another area that was srcely populated.