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Contents:

•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• THE BEST WISNS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WISNS
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• GAYT PLAC IN WISNS FOR 2020
• MADISON GAY BARS, CLUBS AND HOTELS

 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.

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.

THE BEST WISNS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WISNS

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. “Why don’t they have more gay villas, ” Whe said, “I liked wrg Ernte.

Whe, who liv New York, was a -founr of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis and of the 1980s queer wrers group The Vlet Quill. “Whether ’s evotive pictn of gay life durg the tumultuo 1980s, pastakgly rearched bgraphy or elegant memoir, Whe’s work stands out across s as s ronance … for a multu of voted rears. ) Whe has been lled the “godfather of gay Amerin lerature, ” Prceton Alumni Weekly has reported.

“I’m workg now on a sex memoir about the lov of my life, ” Whe, who 1977 -wrote wh Charl Silverste, “The Joy of Gay Sex, ” said. Beg gay was sful and illegal. In that era, “the three most heo thgs Ameri were hero, munism and homosexualy, ” Whe wrote an say.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

“Or they would try to get passn for gays and prent as sick sad stori, ” Whe said. Bars as Meetg PlacGay people (men and women) have experienced a drastic evolutn their methods of social teractn over the past 50 years. 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.

(There is some qutn about, how did a gay person fd another gay person those days? 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�.

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. After Stonewall (1969), gay people throughout the untry began to stand up and mand some rights.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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.

GAYT PLAC IN WISNS FOR 2020

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. One example of the is the seri of 'black' gay bars lled 'Ta's RTI'.

MADISON GAY BARS, CLUBS AND HOTELS

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.

Sce the 1990s, bars are openly advertised as gay public media, chambers of merce lerature, etc. (Note: the bulk of this perspective is om the standpot of gay men's bars and meetg plac.

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. What was Wisns's first 'Gay Bar'? "Gay bars, " meang a bar that is signed specifilly to serve the gay muny, are a midcentury-morn ventn.

Homosexuals were prohibed om openg a bs. Licensed bar owners were forbidn om servg homosexuals, and was agast the law to allow them to ngregate anywhere.