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Before we dig into the history of Milwaukee's gay community in the neighborhood just south of the Third Ward, we need to consider how neighborhoods are defined. If you think the population identifies a neighborhood, Walker's Point is mainly Hispanic.

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This neighborhood gay home to the city's first known gay bars. It was filled with of the vacated warehouses, merchantiles, mills and factories spaces longtime businesses were moving away from. The bars were active between and until dozens of city blocks were torn milwaukee to make room for a downtown freeway system, taking the first known gay neighborhood with it.

As a result, new bars for the LGBT community moved further south. According to Takach, while gay bars in the area were thriving inThe Milwaukee Journal warned its readers, "If you drive south on S. Takach says that the rise of the gay bars in the neighborhood was not a surprising result of yet another area that was the populated.

The factories were very brave to do this and faced some opposition from the neighborhood over there. Your Place, or YP, on 1st and National was the second gay bar that opened in During that time, gay bars had a reputation of being mafia run, seedy, dark, dangerous places. While some were like that, Your Place was actually a family operation run by a gay couple and their Hungarian immigrant parents.

Bill Wardlow has been the owner of the gay bar Fluid for 18 years. When it first opened inthe neighborhood was mostly abandoned bar buildings and bars. Now, as Walker's Point changes even more, Wardlow says that it has always been a gay neighborhood for the people who visit his bar. Every bar has something different for you, whatever that is.

Everybody's really cool and I feel welcome. The city is very, very lucky to have a neighborhood this vibrant, this diverse and this attractive. Search Query Show Search. Lake Effect. About WUWM. Show Search Search Query. Play Live Radio. Next Up:. Bubbler Talk. Bubbler Talk is a series that puts your curiosity front and center.

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