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•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED: MILWKEE'S GAY FAI UNE WH PRI
• THE BEST MILWKEE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MILWKEE
• MILWKEE GAY BARS
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 WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

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.

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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Before Harvey Milk, Jam Yeadon was elected to public officeJam Yeadon beme the first openly gay man to be elected to public office  1976, he beat 13 other ndidat a special electn for Madison's 8th Alrmanic District. Yeadon me out publicly as gay the next day, and  April 1977, he won months later, famed gay-rights activist Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors. While Milk was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California, Yeadon and several others ma history across the natn before Milk me to office.

Milwkee had s own versn of Stonewall, eight years earlierIn 1961, four ebriated servicemen cid to check out Milwkee's most popular gay bar, on a dare. This Is It, one of Milwkee's beloved gay bars, is one of the olst the untryThis Is It, ntled the heart of Milwkee's downtown on East Wells Street, is one of the top 10 olst gay bars the natn and the olst LGBTQ bar Wisns. Wisns was the first state to have three openly LGBTQ elected officialsWisns was the first state the natn to elect three openly gay members of the U.

Gunrson was the first openly gay member of the Republin Party to be reelected to Congrs after beg unwillgly outed.

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Milwkee has been dubbed an 'unrappreciated gay Mec'LGBTQ magaze "The Advote" shone a spotlight on Milwkee 2016. When reviewed the book "LGBT Milwkee" by historian // Michail Takach, Milwkee got a major shoutout as "the most unrappreciated gay Mec the U.

Natnally acclaimed GPU started right here WisnsIn 1971, stunts at the Universy of Wisns-Milwkee found the Gay Peopl Unn (GPU). It soon rose to bee the most proment gay rights anizatn Milwkee and later published a news outlet lled GPU News, which gaed natnal regnn. Some of the group's acplishments clu:Producg the first gay and lbian scripted program  the natn lled Gay 1971-81, publishg a monthly magaze centered on gay issu.

While many of Milwkee's gay and lbian bars were once exclive sgle-sexed jots uniendly to outsirs, tim are changg. 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. Bars as Meetg PlacGay people (men and women) have experienced a drastic evolutn their methods of social teractn over the past 50 years.

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Prr to the 1960s, gay people tend to gather wh one another only the privacy of their own hom, there beg no or few public plac to gather. Perhaps was what we now ll "gaydar", the abily to pick up on slight nuanc of speech or mannerisms, that enabled one gay person to fd another. As late as the early 1960s, the only "public" venu which to gather and meet others of like md were a few rtrants or bars that provid an opportuny for gays and lbians to meet eher certa sectns or separate �back rooms�.

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The sole exceptn known to the thor is the Mt Bar, which was found 1949; but even that bar and many other gatherg plac for gay men were still often eher primarily "straight" or at least "mixed". Milwkee began to see more dited gay bars the early 1960s; The River Queen opened 1960, Your Place 1965, and both This Is It (which is still open), and The Rooster 1968.

But the list of gay anizatns and media shows how thgs evolved over the next few years (more of that another time). Sce the early 1970s, there have been no shortage of both gay and lbian bars Milwkee and the major metro areas of Wisns; Castaway, Stud Club, Ne Beat, Beer Garn, The Wreck Room, JoDee's Race, �the Shack (Kenosha), Back Door Madison, and many others opened the first half of the 70s. The mid-late 70s�was also the era of dis, and the batn of gay rights and the populary of dis, particularly among gay men, was a key factor seeg an explosn of bars and clubs found by and dited to gays and lbians.

But even the 70s there was some bias agast gay bars; fact was not until 1984 that the first gay bars the cy opened up large wdows to the street (wh the first beg the M&M and La Cage); prr to this time, wdows and doors were closed to outsi view (wh the exceptn of the 12� square wdow that cy ordance required of all bars). Ls well documented are 'gay' bars outsi the mastream; for example, black and lato bars terg primarily to the LGBTQ muny.

Sce the mid 1980s, gay and lbian bars are a staple the major metro areas of Wisns, and vlence agast them is seldom heard of. For example, even today, some gay men go almost exclively to straight bars and clubs, while some bi men go to straight and gay clubs about equally. Licensed bar owners were forbidn om servg homosexuals, and was agast the law to allow them to ngregate anywhere.

In recent years, our rearch has *really* taken back, long before liberatn, long before Stonewall, and long before "gay for pay" bars ever opened anywhere. ) As turns out, Kty beme a b of a fairy godmother to wayward gay men her goln years, openg up her elegant 42-room home to those who had none.

" One wonrs if the one -year padlockg of the hotel -- the largt "dry law nuisance" ever prosecuted the untry -- was partially fluenced by homophobia. ) Almost immediately, the Royal acquired a reputatn as a place where gay travelers and lols uld gle eely and whout fear. At the Royal Hotel's closg party September 1973, old-timers spoke about s long legacy of gay hospaly -- and took home souvenir keys om their most memorable rooms.

Later the home of the Futuristic Ballroom, the Swan Theater, the Scene nightclub, the Centre Stage dner theater, and the origal home of the Miss Gay Wisns pageant, the Antlers was emed an "ashtray hotel" and molished 1980. ) While not overtly gay bars, they were exceptnally gay-iendly, as were a dozen more clubs and barets durg the 1950s Drag Craze.