THE 5 BEST Mosw Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

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• PRI MONTH: FLUID, WALKERS PT MAKE THEIR MARK MILWKEE'S 'GAYBORHOOD'
• WOMAN-OWNED D.I.X. FDS NICHE THE GAYBORHOOD
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• THE SE OF A FORMER MILWKEE GAY BAR ULD BE MOLISHED. HERE'S WHY SOME WANT TO BE SAVED.

PRI MONTH: FLUID, WALKERS PT MAKE THEIR MARK MILWKEE'S 'GAYBORHOOD'

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.

WOMAN-OWNED D.I.X. FDS NICHE THE GAYBORHOOD

It is a gay bar started by Bill Wardlow 1989, a time when gay men need a place to fd rpe.

"It is important that gay people have a place where they n go and be safe and not be ridiculed, " said sce beg neighbors the 2000s, the bar owners have bee the bt of iends; learng om each other and teamg up to give back to the muny. For this week's Bubbler Talk, WUWM tackl this qutn submted by Hannah Kaytonah: Is Walker’s Pot really a ‘gay’ neighborhood?

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

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.

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.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

"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.

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

Durg that time, gay bars had a reputatn of beg mafia n, seedy, dark, dangero plac. While some were like that, Your Place was actually a fay operatn n by a gay uple and their Hungarian immigrant parents.

THE SE OF A FORMER MILWKEE GAY BAR ULD BE MOLISHED. HERE'S WHY SOME WANT TO BE SAVED.

Bill Wardlow has been the owner of the gay bar Fluid for 18 years.