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• GAY ARTS CENTER FILLS GAP MILWKEE ARTS MUNY
• MILWKEE GAY ARTS CENTER, AN AMERIN FIRST
• ON/WKEE GAY ARTS CENTER
• MILWKEE GAY ARTS CENTER
• MILWKEE GAY ARTS CENTER
• MILWKEE GAY ARTS CENTER INC MILWKEE, WISNS (WI)
• UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
• ON/WKEE GAY ARTS CENTER
• MILWKEE GAY ARTS CENTER INC V. CY OF MILWKEE ET AL, NO. 2:2008CV00958 - DOCUMENT 41 (E.D. WIS. 2010)

GAY ARTS CENTER FILLS GAP MILWKEE ARTS MUNY

Jt time to relieve the strs of filg tax forms, the Gallery Night grand openg of Milwkee's new Gay Arts Center is set for Friday, April 15, offerg a broad palette of visual and performg arts.

MILWKEE GAY ARTS CENTER, AN AMERIN FIRST

The cy's first arts center dited exclively to gay-relevant visual and performg arts is loted a gged 19th-century buildg at 703 S. Masterson was a volunteer director and curator at the Milwkee Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Communy Center Gallery and -chaired five Make A Promise galas for the AIDS Rource Center of Wisns.

M., a benef for the AIDS Rource Center of Wisns, njunctn wh the gural Milwkee Gay Arts Center Gallery exhib "Taptri, " which featur an AIDS Memorial Quilt and works by Milwkee artists.

The Gay Arts Center space will also be shared wh Queer Life, Wisns's LGBT newspaper.

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Beyond the visual and performg arts, the Milwkee Gay Arts Center will offer a spectm of related tnal opportuni for muny participatn cludg yoga and art class.

Artists who would like to participate future shows are enuraged to ntact the Milwkee Gay Arts Center at. The Gay Arts Center Gallery Night grand openg is Friday, April 15 om 5 to 9 p. Wh the closure of the Milwkee Gay Arts Center 2014 and Theatril Tennci on seemgly permanent hiat, the lol productn of queer stage plays is at bt sporadic.

Includ is gay playwright Edward Albee’s Who’s Aaid of Virgia Woolf which, given s dynamics, may as well be gay (perhaps someday will be produced wh all same-genr st, male or female, although I heard Albee closed-down a same-sex productn somewhere years and years ago). Admtedly, like Albee plays, tentnally or not, Broadway shows are pretty gay unto themselv.

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The Skylight is also brgg gay fav Eva and the ABBA tribute show, Mamma Mia! To be sure, the playwright has a checkered gay affiliatn seeg himself not as a gay wrer but rather as a wrer who happens to be gay. Neverthels, A Delite Balance there’s a flirtatn wh the ia of a gay character.

In the latter half of the season, the Boulevard plans an enhanced readg of a more recent work, Joshua Harmon’s Signifint Other, about the travails of a young urban gay male New York Cy as his female iends fd succs love and marriage. An opera queen at heart, McNally sets his work around a bootlegged Maria Callas rerdg of Verdi’s La Traviata and wh the world of gay opera aficnados explor the often tragic (or otherwise melodramatic) operatic liv they lead. A recent article onle news magaze LGBTQ Natn announced San Francis’s openg of “Ameri’s first LGBTQ arts center” a buildg purchased by the cy’s gay chos for $9.

The Milwkee Gay Arts Center (MGAC) was the first. There were llaboratns like “The Gay Youth Art” show wh MPS Alliance School. She also found the first and only gay-male Egyptian baret style belly dance troupe, MGAC’s Extreme Taqsim (aka the Extrem).

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It llaborated wh the Milwkee Art Mm, providg gut docents (myself and Dear Ruthie) for s special exhibn of Brish gay artist uple Gilbert & Gee. The creatn of Milwkee Gay Arts Center (MGAC) followed 2005.

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” Sadly, a later after s foundg, gentrifitn of the gayborhood rulted MGAC’s closure. Both Cream Cy Foundatn’s “Gay Neighbor” 2008, and, a year later, Diverse & Rilient’s “Acceptance Journeys” mpaigns were signed to predite dialogue, posively impact attus and, by extensn, alleviate HIV+ stigma.

UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU

As you go about your regularly schled pre-Valente's Day activi, make some time to see "The Vaga Monologu" at the Milwkee Gay Arts Center.

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.

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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.

Don Hoffman is the edor of Queer Life, Wisns’s LGBT newspaper, and is on the board of directors for the Milwkee Gay Arts Center. 2nd St., he says that his bar is not a “gay bar.

MILWKEE GAY ARTS CENTER INC V. CY OF MILWKEE ET AL, NO. 2:2008CV00958 - DOCUMENT 41 (E.D. WIS. 2010)

“The ia of exclive gay bars is a dyg dosr, ” he says. There was a time the gay muny, he says, that bars were an important place to get together to anize and discs progrs, but what he’s seen over time is that while exclive gay bars are still important, they are not the hot bed of social change that they ed to be. “Many LGBT folks aren’t terted gog to jt gay bars anymore, so many bars are havg specific 'gay' nights, jt like they would have a ladi’ night, and lets gay muny know that they are open and welg, ” he says.

You fd more and more gay kids who don’t jt want to be around LGBT people and I thk ’s a ttament to the progrs of the movement -- no more hangg out plac wh the wdows pated over.