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Contents:

•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• MURAL TO BE UNVEILED AT HISTORIC GREEN BAY GAY BAR DURG WEEKEND OF PRI
• ONE OF THE OLST GAY BARS WISNS IS GETTG A NEW LGBTQ+ MURAL
• STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR
• GAYT PLAC IN WISNS FOR 2020
• GAY DATG GREEN BAY
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS GREEN BAY
•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

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

We are the send-longt-nng gay bar Wisns and home to Green Bay's first LGBTQ Mural!

We have been servg the LGBTQ muny for nearly 40 years and are the send-longt-nng gay bar Wisns! All of our events are 21+July 30th, 2:00 PM: Wilma Tootsie Pop's Big Gay Game Show is BACK!

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

The Stonewall rts New York Cy energized the gay rights movement 1969, and as LGBTQ people searched for shared experienc and safe spac, they found them at bars and clubs that openly weled them. “Gay bars have been such an tegral part of our history, ” Tenpenny said.

ONE OF THE OLST GAY BARS WISNS IS GETTG A NEW LGBTQ+ MURAL

“Gay bars, not jt Green Bay, but all over the place, beme the muny center, ” said Mark Mariucci, a Green Bay rint who ran several LGBTQ bars cludg Za’s, Java’s and the Wt Picture Show between 1989 and 2004. In 1980, the Green Bay Prs-Gazette published a week-long seri, "Gay Green Bay, " that lled bars like The Manhole a “lchp, a central place where s members n exist the open whout the fear of retributn om the straight world.

”Tenpenny is workg wh the Universy of Wisns-Green Bay to tablish a Northeast Wisns LGBTQ History Archive to llect some of the history project's memorabilia om gay bars and clubs, like t-shirts and tailed histori of var LGBTQ bars and support groups that were active over recent s. The Fox Valley Gay Alliance, a very early support group formed 1972 Neenah, often met members' hom, and a equent topic of discsn was fdg a tavern that would be "openly gay-iendly.

STILL HERE AND STILL QUEER: THE GAY RTRANT ENDUR

Mallien, now 85 and livg Milwkee, said openly terg to gays and lbians  the 1970s often drew backlash om teenagers, "Bible thumpers, " as Mallien lled them, and the larger Green Bay muny. In a 1980 story, the Prs-Gazette lled The Manhole "the gatherg place for much of the younger gay muny.

" People terviewed 1980 told journalists they wouldn't have been able to tolerate Green Bay whout the bar and that showed them there was a gay muny here.

Supreme Court's 2015 lg that legalized gay marriage natnwi — have helped LGBTQ people ga wir acceptance the muny, cludg at straight bars and 're imprsed a sports bar eyight of Lambe Field not only hosted but sold out a drag show recently.

GAYT PLAC IN WISNS FOR 2020

"The suici rate among young, gay people is still high, which is unfortunate, " Penrgast said. “Gay bars are the one place my life I have ever been where my muny outnumbers straight people.

“We ed to have seven or eight gay bars open. Is there a gay "scene" of sorts? Green Bay, Wisns 54301Get DirectnsType: Gay Club.

Type: Gay Friendly Bar. A uple months ago, lol artist Loschue Lo began patg a lorful mural at the Napale Lounge, a historic gay bar Green Bay.

GAY DATG GREEN BAY

Found 1982, the Napale Lounge and Grille Green Bay is the send-olst gay bar the state of Wisns.

“Historilly, gay bars were tucked away rners bee they didn’t want to draw negative attentn that’s often followed them, " she said. Inially, there was a ont door, which has sce been sealed, and was sealed bee vandals would e by to harass the gay muny and throw junk si the bar.

But several plac around the untry, they rema anchors of safety and Raff for The New York TimPublished May 28, 2021Updated May 29, 2021Stt Frankel’s favore memori of New York gay rtrants aren’t about food. Manat was so gay, had a sobriquet: rtrants, said Mr. ”But all those plac he so fondly remembers are long closed, as are Harvt, Orb’s and several others listed an article, headled “Rtrants That Roll Out the Wele Mat for Gay Ders, ” that ran this newspaper 27 years ago.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS GREEN BAY

The panmic h the untry’s urban gay rtrants pecially hard, said Jt Nelson, the print of the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce.

MeMe’s Der, a popular queer rtrant Brooklyn, permanently closed November, cg shutdown measur and a lack of ernment rtrants, like gay bars, are also facg cris of inty and purpose a time that is many ways more welg than the past, when gay people sought out gay rtrants bee they offered safety and acceptance that uldn’t be found elsewhere. Gay men equented plac like Orphan Andy’s, a mpy der om the same that’s still bs the Castro neighborhood of San Francis.

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

Atlanta had Waterworks, which a 1992 newsletter for the group Black and Whe Men Together lled the cy’s “only Black-owned gay rtrant. And shiftg nceptns of sexualy and genr extend beyond what words like gay, lbian, male or female n acmodate. A gay rtrant n jt sound fuddy-duddy.

“Many of the more privileged young queer people have grown up wh cln, so they don’t feel the need to be a place where you’re sheltered om heterosexism, ” said Julie Podmore, an urban geographer at Conrdia Universy may be the se New York Cy, where gay rtrants are gog the way of dosrs (if not yet extct — Elmo and other spots are still keepg their gay fan base fed) elsewhere the untry, many gay rtrants are thrivg — as treasured lol bs, facto muny centers, refug om ntug anti-queer vlence and potential paths forward for a rtrant dtry a recent Saturday night the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washgton, Annie’s Paramount Steak Hoe was by, and was gay.