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• GAY DATG APPLETON
•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• RASLS HAS LONG BEEN A GAY REFUGE APPLETON
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS APPLETON
• GAY APPLETON (OUTAGAMIE COUNTY, WISNS)
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS APPLETON, WI
• GAY HOOKUP APPLETON (WISNS)
• GAYT PLAC IN WISNS FOR 2020
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• GAY DATG GREEN BAY
•  WISNS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS APPLETON

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APPLETON - As this cy's only gay bar, Rasls Bar and Grill is about more than drkg. "Once aga last week, Rasls went om waterg hole to refuge, as hundreds gathered for a vigil the aftermath of the massacre at a gay nightclub  feelg of refuge has been a llg rd for Rasls for 24 Harper, who's been gog there at least once a week for more than a , met McKenney there, and now the two are bt iends. It's also the mon meetg place to mourn a tragedy or jtice for someone the gay fay, said Kathy Flor, a lear wh the LGBTQ muny lolly.

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"It was jt to have a place for the gays to meet, and to meet each other, " Wt said. "Harper me out as gay durg the AIDS crisis, and lived through the discrimatn of people blamg the disease on the gay muny. "But not all thgs protect the gay muny, " she said.

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"The same night as the Orlando shootg, Harper was wh her wife Neenah at Re Mixx, known as a gay-iendly bar but not a gay bar. "As we were walkg , she went to put her arm around me, and I went to put her hand down, and I said, 'This isn't a gay event.

"Michael Nz started gog to Rasls when the Pivot Club, a gay nightclub Appleton, closed 1995.

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"Right now 's the only gay bar the area, so 's the only place where 's really fortable to socialize, " Nz said of Rasls.

"Establishments like the Pivot Club, Raven's, Crossroads and other bygone gay bars aren't the only parts of LGBTQ culture that have gone away while Rasls has remaed. Every month, 15 to 30 people would read a book, then meet at one person's home for a potluck dner and 's Brown Beam Tavern is a bar that's "always been iendly, " Nz said, and the bar was even listed as a gay bar om 1977 to 1982 at s old lotn (adjacent to s current College Avenue slot), acrdg to the Wisns LGBT History Project. "We jt don't close, " Wt appli to holidays, which n have a btersweet benef for those the gay muny who aren't fully accepted by their own fai.

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Wisns has long been a forenner LGBTQ+ advocy, ever sce was the first state to pass anti-discrimatn legislatn for the LGBTQ muny 1982, givg the tle of "the first gay rights state. "Here are five stori that scratch the surface of the Fox Ci' LGBTQ muny and Lambda Lounge: Appleton's first gay barThroughout the late 20th century, gay people primarily found muny through the bar scene, often seen as a safe space for LGBTQ people to socialize. Appleton's first gay bar, the Lambda Lounge, opened downtown 1977 by partners Pl DeB and Gene DeB, Pl's sister, said the two bought the bar om Claire Kempky who ran Doris' Super Bar, a bs wh a reputatn as a hangout spot for gay people.

That reputatn, she said, enuraged her brother to open a gay bar after Kempky's closed. Matchbook vers for The Lambda Lounge that read "The Gayt Spot Town.

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" The bar opened 1977 and was Appleton's first gay the bar wasn't openly advertised as a gay bar for the safety of s patrons, people knew of through word of mouth and natnal gay bar guis, such as the Damron Gui. Rearcher for the Universy of Wisns-Green Bay's "Our Voic: LGBTQ+ Stori of Northeastern Wisns" Dennis Jab said bar patrons often experienced backlash om Appleton rints who believed homosexualy was wrong and didn't like havg a gay bar patrons were safe to be themselv si the bar, Jabs said people knew to not enter or leave the bar alone as they faced vlence om straight people and many fights took place outsi the bar. "The early [gay] bars were rough, " Jabs said.

"But the gay populatn Appleton stood their ground and fought back. "Ultimately, the bar closed down amid petn om 1101 Wt, a gay dance club, that opened down the road soon after. However, the Lambda Lounge's prence Appleton paved the way for other LGBTQ bars, such as The ReMixx Neenah, Rasls Appleton and the now-closed Pivot A Neenah LGBTQ club is creatg a growg love for drag shows the Fox CiMore: Rasls has long been a gay refuge AppletonBook clubs allow gay people to fd munyBook clubs have often been a place for people wh shared inti to fd muny while discsg lerature pertag to their liv and provi a safe space for gays and lbians to socialize, Appleton Public Library llectns ordator Michael Nz and Lawrence Universy Profsor Dick Wslow found a book club named the Lavenr Salon 15 years, the group met each Sunday members' hom wh potluck meals and discsns on books and club was exclive to gay people, so members — whether they were openly gay or not — were able to be themselv and safely meet other people the LGBTQ muny.

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"For some, was their first time knowgly meetg other people who were gay and lbian so beg a safe space was really important, " Nz told The Post-Crcent. Participatn the club grew om seven members to over 60 at a time, brgg people om Marette and Sheboygan for the weekly stunts' fight for gay-straight alliance clubDurg the turn of the century, stunts Madison and Milwkee high schools started creatg gay-straight allianc, or GSA clubs, to provi supportive environments for LGBTQ word about the clubs grew, a number of stunts at Neenah High School 2001, cludg Nick Ross — a current Appleton School Board member — wanted to create an official club for LGBTQ stunts to discs experienc and issu they were gog of the stunts were already LGBTQ support groups at the school and the muny, but Ross said was important for them to create an official group to give visibily to LGBTQ stunts and let other stunts know there was a safe space the school to discs their, when the stunts applied for club regnn, Neenah High School Prcipal Mark Duerwaechter nied them, sayg a GSA has polil goals and would go agast district policy, acrdg to Post-Crcent archiv.

"It was extremely terrifyg and sry for all the reasons of beg out public as LGBTQ, but also super excg bee we put ourselv out there and ma thgs happen, " Ross Neenah stunts' ph for a GSA and the attentn gathered the Fox Ci spired other stunts to create the club their own schools and a year later all three Appleton high schools had a High School Gay Straight Alliance club om an Oct. "In the last 15 years wh the cy of Appleton, we were dog some pretty active support of LGBTQ folks bee we were tired of seeg teens harmed and havg hate crim our parks, " Flor, who also prevly served as Appleton's diversy ordator, told The first time Appleton got volved LGBTQ issu was 2012 when the cy passed domtic partnership protectn for gay cy employe and their a time when same-sex marriage wasn't legal, domtic partnership benefs allowed cy employe and their partners the same benefs as spo, such as health surance and sick next time the cy got volved LGBTQ issu was Augt 2013 when the cy passed fair hog based on genr inty and exprsn, beg the third cy the state to ban hog discrimatn for transgenr people. The on the gay foms will help you to get a improved unrstandg of Gay Hookup Appleton (Wisns).

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.

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“Gay bars have been such an tegral part of our history, ” Tenpenny said.

“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.

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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.

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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. 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.