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Contents:
- LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED: MILWKEE'S GAY FAI UNE WH PRI
- THE BEST MILWKEE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MILWKEE
- FROM GAY BARS TO GUERILLA GAY BARS
- MILWKEE GAY BARS, CLUBS AND HOTELS
- GAY WISNS
- A FRIDAY ON THE “F LOOP”: A STRAIGHT MAN’S GAY BAR CRAWL
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED: MILWKEE'S GAY FAI UNE WH PRI
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. * milwaukee gay bars *
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:.
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.
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While many of Milwkee's gay and lbian bars were once exclive sgle-sexed jots uniendly to outsirs, tim are changg. This Riverwt bar wel a mixed crowd of men and women, both gay and straight.
FROM GAY BARS TO GUERILLA GAY BARS
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M., this classic gay bar offers nightly drk specials. Here you'll fd two adjacent gay bars wh the same buildg: Club Boom, the fast-paced, dance-y, more tradnal gay bar and The Room, the posh bar that attracts more of a mixed crowd.
Kz is a gay scene hot spot. It's Milwkee's olst gay dance club and 's a good time for anyone, regardls of sexual orientatn.
Although not officially a "gay bar, " this Riverwt classic is a. gay-and-lbian iendly dance club.
MILWKEE GAY BARS, CLUBS AND HOTELS
“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. * milwaukee gay bars *
Openg as a quasi-gay bar popular w lbians the early 1980s,. as an openly lbian and gay bar ever sce. Formerly lled Purr, this spot off Capol Drive is a favore wh the gay Ain-Amerin muny.
MILWAUKEE GAY BAR GUIDE: 9 OF THE BEST MILWAUKEE GAY BARS. Hey there, ’s jt your iendly gayborhood bar, Fluid, here. A great atmosphere plete wh ever-changg holiday ratns that put the average bar to shame: that’s jt the tip of why this is gay bar is always a good ia.
This is probably my favore gay bar Milwkee.
GAY WISNS
It’s midnight at LaCage. Artificial smoke clouds the air, heavy beats pulse that air, and a bpectacled 20-somethg puts on airs as he enthiastilly evaluat the posterrs of passg patrons. Historilly, the gay bar has been a safe haven and gatherg place for people to mgle whout fear. But the 1970s, ’80s and even * milwaukee gay bars *
LaCage has been a te landmark for gays and out of Milwkee. For this week's Bubbler Talk, WUWM tackl this qutn submted by Hannah Kaytonah: Is Walker’s Pot really a ‘gay’ neighborhood?
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Milwkee was ranked as one of the top 10 “Unr the Gaydar” ci the untry, for s wi variety of gay nightlife optns, hospaly, and for holdg one of the natn’s largt and longt-nng pri events each year. Tly is a cy of mid-wtern hospaly that celebrat all of s wonrful diversy and the wi variety of people that make wonrful. * milwaukee gay bars *
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.
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This neighborhood was home to the cy's first known gay bars.
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What was once the first known neighborhood wh gay bars on Plankton Avenue was torn down to make way for the eeway system. 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.
“It really is not shockg that by the 1950 and '60s, this is where you start to see LGBT bs the form of gay bars showg up and startg to take hold, bee by that time the neighborhood had bee almost fotten, " he says. "The first gay bar Walker’s Pot was The Ne Beat on 9th and Natnal — a women’s bar that opened 1959. Your Place, or YP, on 1st and Natnal was the send gay bar that opened 1965.
Durg that time, gay bars had a reputatn of beg mafia n, seedy, dark, dangero plac.