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News Articles:
December 16, 2024
The Summer to Be Seen Tour returns in 2025!
We're bringing LGBTQ history and heritage to the hometown streets of Wisconsin. Join the celebration!
November 22, 2024
Celebrate "80 Years of Gay" at Fluid Milwaukee
We're raising money to protect Wisconsin's first LGBTQ historic marker -- at an address that has been a queer destination for eight decades.
Blog Articles:
November 30, 2024
Del Slowik: celebrating the Golden Age of Club 219
A chance encounter on a Milwaukee beach ignited the romance of a lifetime -- and launched a legendary gay nightspot's 25-year reign.
November 16, 2024
Goldie Adams: never take freedom for granted
After forty plus years of drag performances, Goldie shares her colorful story for the first time.
October 09, 2024
Barbara Hayden: the nights belonged to us
Nearly seventy years after taking a summer job that changed her life forever, Barbara reflects on what the LGBTQ community has gained -- and lost -- since 1956.
October 08, 2024
Liberace: the spark that made Milwaukee spectacular
One can only imagine what the most visible and vocal gay man of the 20th century could have achieved – if only he had been allowed to be himself.
October 06, 2024
Frank Blunt: legendary boss of the Bad Lands
He smoked, drank, gambled, hustled, and womanized like no other man in Milwaukee. And, one fateful day in 1893, Milwaukee learned why.
October 03, 2024
Evanna Breedlove: a lifetime of love and magic
Over thirty years after moving to New York City, Evanna reflects on growing up Black and trans in the dance clubs and drag cabarets of Wisconsin.
October 01, 2024
George Schneider: we are not going backwards
From teenage runaway to beverage boss, George has lived a lifetime of community service and action.
August 28, 2024
Dave Wolz: from first-time customer to legacy owner
"Big Gay Dave" was a fixture of the Milwaukee gay scene, but it took him a while to actually come out.
