Interactive Green Bay Wisns Gay Bars Lbian Clubs GayBarMaps WI

Contents:

•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• MURAL TO BE UNVEILED AT HISTORIC GREEN BAY GAY BAR DURG WEEKEND OF PRI
• ONE OF THE OLST GAY BARS WISNS IS GETTG A NEW LGBTQ+ MURAL
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

 WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

We are the send-longt-nng gay bar Wisns and home to Green Bay's first LGBTQ Mural!

We have been servg the LGBTQ muny for nearly 40 years and are the send-longt-nng gay bar Wisns! The Stonewall rts New York Cy energized the gay rights movement 1969, and as LGBTQ people searched for shared experienc and safe spac, they found them at bars and clubs that openly weled them. “Gay bars have been such an tegral part of our history, ” Tenpenny said.

 WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

“Gay bars, not jt Green Bay, but all over the place, beme the muny center, ” said Mark Mariucci, a Green Bay rint who ran several LGBTQ bars cludg Za’s, Java’s and the Wt Picture Show between 1989 and 2004.

MURAL TO BE UNVEILED AT HISTORIC GREEN BAY GAY BAR DURG WEEKEND OF PRI

In 1980, the Green Bay Prs-Gazette published a week-long seri, "Gay Green Bay, " that lled bars like The Manhole a “lchp, a central place where s members n exist the open whout the fear of retributn om the straight world. ”Tenpenny is workg wh the Universy of Wisns-Green Bay to tablish a Northeast Wisns LGBTQ History Archive to llect some of the history project's memorabilia om gay bars and clubs, like t-shirts and tailed histori of var LGBTQ bars and support groups that were active over recent s.

The Fox Valley Gay Alliance, a very early support group formed 1972 Neenah, often met members' hom, and a equent topic of discsn was fdg a tavern that would be "openly gay-iendly.

ONE OF THE OLST GAY BARS WISNS IS GETTG A NEW LGBTQ+ MURAL

Mallien, now 85 and livg Milwkee, said openly terg to gays and lbians  the 1970s often drew backlash om teenagers, "Bible thumpers, " as Mallien lled them, and the larger Green Bay muny. In a 1980 story, the Prs-Gazette lled The Manhole "the gatherg place for much of the younger gay muny. " People terviewed 1980 told journalists they wouldn't have been able to tolerate Green Bay whout the bar and that showed them there was a gay muny here.

Supreme Court's 2015 lg that legalized gay marriage natnwi — have helped LGBTQ people ga wir acceptance the muny, cludg at straight bars and 're imprsed a sports bar eyight of Lambe Field not only hosted but sold out a drag show recently.

"The suici rate among young, gay people is still high, which is unfortunate, " Penrgast said. “Gay bars are the one place my life I have ever been where my muny outnumbers straight people.

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

“We ed to have seven or eight gay bars open.

Is there a gay "scene" of sorts? Green Bay, Wisns 54301Get DirectnsType: Gay Club. Type: Gay Friendly Bar.

A uple months ago, lol artist Loschue Lo began patg a lorful mural at the Napale Lounge, a historic gay bar Green Bay. Found 1982, the Napale Lounge and Grille Green Bay is the send-olst gay bar the state of Wisns. “Historilly, gay bars were tucked away rners bee they didn’t want to draw negative attentn that’s often followed them, " she said.