Mural unveilg at historic gay bar durg Weekend of Pri

Contents:

• MURAL TO BE UNVEILED AT HISTORIC GREEN BAY GAY BAR DURG WEEKEND OF PRI
•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• KERSHAW DISAGRE WH DODGERS’ CISN TO RESTATE GAY ‘NUN’ GROUP FOR PRI NIGHT AWARD

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

A panel of judg selected Lo, a gay man om Oshkosh currently studyg art at UW-Green Bay, to pat a 12-foot-tall, 24-foot-wi mural on the si of Napale Lounge and Grille, Wisns's send-olst ntually operatg gay 's, as regulars know , serv as an LGBTQ+ muny center as much as a bar. "They are two trans women of lor who ma huge ntributns to the gay liberatn era and never got any regnn for , " Lo said. ""Even my teenage years, even though I was out and open, I always felt like no one really wanted to see me beg gay or me beg a Hmong person.

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

"There was the newsletter om Northern Womyn, a lbian anizatn Green Bay tablished the 1970s; drag "rac" at Baird Creek that held ntts to see how quickly folks uld transform to their queenly attire; the Bay Cy Chos, a gay sgg group that distributed tnal, social and cultural materials about LGBTQ matters wherever they performed; and the Argonts of Wisns, a Green Bay-based LGBTQ social club that holds the distctn of beg the first gay anizatn the state. LGBTQ+ people and bars Green Bay have faced persecutn om harassers and homophob sce the cy's first LGBTQ+ bars opened. 8% of Wisns intify as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.

The muny is far om uniform, though: Different populatns have different needs and often fd different levels of acceptance om the broar Ma, an assistant cy attorney for Green Bay who ran for a judge's seat as an openly transgenr ndidate this sprg, said transgenr, qutng and genr diverse people are jt now phg for the same regnn gay, lbian and bisexual people started s ago. Martha said there are simple thgs people n do every day to fe stronger ti wh the LGBTQ+ muny, like cuttg out jok about gay and transgenr people or dog some rearch on LGBTQ+ people and issu they face. A uple months ago, lol artist Loschue Lo began patg a lorful mural at the Napale Lounge, a historic gay bar Green Bay.

“People would walk by (the ont door) and they’d throw fireworks and firecrackers, water balloons to the bar to kd of sre patrons for beg a gay bar, servg gay patrons, ” Tenpenny explas. Lo says his mural featur two transgenr women of lor who ma huge ntributns to the gay liberatn era but were never regnized for . It’s pated on the si of the Napale Lounge and Grille buildg which is one of the gay bars Green Bay.

KERSHAW DISAGRE WH DODGERS’ CISN TO RESTATE GAY ‘NUN’ GROUP FOR PRI NIGHT AWARD

“The ont door was rarely ed except for vandals that would e, kick the door open and harass the gay muny, ” says Project Coordator Martha. “When I first got to Green Bay there were seven or eight gay bars, and now there’s jt one or two and I thk the cle is jt people acceptg and not needg the separate tablishment, ” says Wut. We are the send-longt-nng gay bar Wisns and home to Green Bay's first LGBTQ Mural!