Happy Pri Month! Milwkee's LGBTQ bar scene is gog strong - primarily on and around Send Street - and ntu to offer fun, safe spac for everyone, gay or straight.
Contents:
- MASTREAM GAY
- IS MILWKEE A GOOD PLACE TO BE GAY?
- PRO SPORTS READY FOR OPENLY GAY ATHLETE
- THE EVOLUTN OF MILWKEE’S OLST GAY BAR
- WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE GAY PRS?
- INSI THIS LOL PRIT’S DECISN TO COME OUT AS GAY
- THE THOUGHTFUL GAY MAN MILWKEE
- KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
MASTREAM GAY
Gay journalism has stggled this cy, but the newt entry wh sir clout and a mastream pedigree. Lnched late 2009, the Wisns Gazette aims to ver the entire LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) market, om polics to real tate to entertament. "It's a val niche," says Publisher and Edor--Chief Louis Weisberg. * gay milwaukee magazine *
Lnched late 2009, the Wisns Gazette aims to ver the entire LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) market, om polics to real tate to entertament. He dismiss claims that the gay muny no longer needs s own journalism: “We’re post ‘Will & Grace, ’ but society lags predictably behd.
” The 58-year-old Weisberg says he’s met peers who don’t know of Milwkee’s openly gay state senator, Democrat Tim Carpenter, or the state’s openly gay member of Congrs, Madison Democrat Tammy Baldw.
IS MILWKEE A GOOD PLACE TO BE GAY?
Monday marked the close of Milwkee Magaze's sprg season of MilMag Live. It was the fifth the monthly event seri, tled Gay MKE, and panelists tackled qutns about how Milwkee par to other ci terms of LGBT support and how straight alli n bt e their time and fluence to better their muni. * gay milwaukee magazine *
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.
PRO SPORTS READY FOR OPENLY GAY ATHLETE
For article thor Jennifer Moral, the cy always had a certa rabow glow, even before she moved here more than 15 years ago. Here's her gui to "gay Milwkee." * gay milwaukee magazine *
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.
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. Between her acrdn and French lyrics, (cludg a jnty o to a glass of whe we), Pluer transported the crowd to gay Paree. The panel, morated by Carole Nicks and -host of WUWM’s Lake Effect, Bonnie North, opened wh a medatn on the qutn Is Milwkee a good place to be gay?
THE EVOLUTN OF MILWKEE’S OLST GAY BAR
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From a numbers perspective, he argued, the LGBT muny is not large enough to put fancial prsure on bs wh anti-gay practic, which is where straight alli e . Generally speakg, gay Milwkeeans aren't exactly holdg hands the streets, but a few neighborhoods stand out as welg plac for LGBT folks.
The majory of the cy's gay and lbian bars and clubs are ensnced this workg-class immigrant neighborhood, unr the glowg, four-sid Allen-Bradley clock. The UWM neighborhood also is home to Outwords, Milwkee's gay bookstore and prime outlet for LGBT vios, gifts and rabow gear, 2710 N.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE GAY PRS?
Milwkee was ranked as one of the top 10 “Unr the Gaydar” ci the untry, for s wi variety of gay nightlife optns, hospaly, and for holdg one of the natn’s largt and longt-nng pri events each year. Tly is a cy of mid-wtern hospaly that celebrat all of s wonrful diversy and the wi variety of people that make wonrful. * gay milwaukee magazine *
A formerly pennt town and now fondly nicknamed "Gay View, " Bay View still has s own downtown, centered on Knicknic Avenue ("KK" lol parlance). However, Milwkee has several smaller hotels that offer gay visors the lol character and attentn one n't get om a natnal cha:.
INSI THIS LOL PRIT’S DECISN TO COME OUT AS GAY
The pose signatn “LGBT” functns as an acronym to scribe lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Milwkeeans who, sce the 1960s, have * gay milwaukee magazine *
Court St., (414) 271-2656,, offers a Referral Le that lks visors and lols alike wh gay-iendly therapists, doctors, attorneys, and other profsnals.
THE THOUGHTFUL GAY MAN MILWKEE
The Thoughtful Gay Man Milwkee is a discsn and support group for gay men and alli who want to live a life of more meang, higher nscns, and eper nnectn outsi of the typil "gay scene." We gather once a month to explore a changg topic that tak eper to self-reflect * gay milwaukee magazine *
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. 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. Milwkee Calendar was one of several "bar rag" format news-magaz issued durg the late 1970's and early 1980's; the group also clud RAGG, Gay Milwkee, and In Step Magaze. Acrdg to the edor the third issue, when this magaze was the planng stag, one of their worri was that Milwkee might not have enough Gay activi gog on to keep the Calendar full!
KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
About May of 1980, the owners of the Milwkee Calendar cid to sell the publitn to the publishers of Gay Chigo magaze, published by Ultra Ink, Inc.
The owner and founr of that pany, Ralph-Pl Gernhardt, was makg attempts to tablish several lol publitns asi om Gay Chigo, cludg Gay Detro, Gay Milwkee, and Gay Oh; and January 1981 the former Milwkee Calendar, now published by Ultra Ink, was formally renamed as Gay Milwkee.
Jt over a year later however, May 1981, mands of Milwkee advertisers to exclu another advertiser led Ultra Ink to ci to cease prtg Gay Milwkee (see letter below).
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY
Several of the full-time gay bar owners strongly objected to seeg advertisements for Sunday's the publitn that also advertised their full-time gay bars, and the dispute beme ntent enough that the publishers Chigo cid the only way to al wh was to kill the magaze. Acceleratg that cisn was that the mands of tryg to publish several publitns attemptg to ver activi so geographilly disbursed was beg more difficult, so Ultra Ink eventually moved to merge the var non-Chigo publitns to a more regnal reprentatn of Gay Chigo verg all of the Midwt, creatg the newspaper-formatted Midwt Tim, 1981. Thanks to the son of the late Ralph-Pl Gernhardt to give this brief history and allow to display select extract pag of Gay Milwkee.
Creds: Special thanks to the Gerber-Hart Library Chigo for the e of their llectn pilg Milwkee Calendar/ Gay Milwkee historil materials. A great atmosphere plete wh ever-changg holiday ratns that put the average bar to shame: that’s jt the tip of why this is gay bar is always a good ia. Years ago, a lot of the gay bars would own upon [ctomers] that were not gay [though this was not the se at This Is It!
The Supreme Court had never before led favor of homosexuals Amerin history, but now they had opened the floodgat for a natnal gay prs. Natnal gay guis, such as the Lavenr Baeker, began to circulate by mail orr, fosterg a natnal nightlife work for men the know and a historil trace for today’s rearchers (like me.