History of Gay and Lesbian Life in Wisconsin - People - Bios

 
Michael Lisowski

Born:
Died:

 March 30, 1950
(living)
Primary Involvements:

 
Community Activist
Cable program Producer and Host

 

 
 

       
 

Michael Lisowski is an LGBT activist best known for producing and hosting "The Queer Program", a cable access program in Milwaukee which held live news, interview and call-in programs for the LGBTQ community for 25 years, from 1992 to 2017. He is believed to be the longest serving producer of a cable series with MATA (Milwaukee Access Telecommunications Authority).

Lisowski was also a very active member of Milwaukee's LGBT community, from the Gay People's Union, to BWMT/ Black & White Men Together, and other organizations.

 

Lisowski was interviewed by History Project curator Michail Takach in December 2023. Read that full interview at this link. In the interview, Lisowski talks about GPU, BWMT, The Queer Program, as well as numerous bars he visited and people he befriended witnin the LGBT community.

 		 


Photo with Queer Program co-host Dan Fons, 1995
(courtesy Dan Fons)


Lisowski in a library
(Wis. Light vol. 9-20, Sept. 1996)


Cover: The Queer program Turns 20
(Quest vol. 20-03, March 2013)


Lisowski receives the Shepherd Express
LGBT Progress Award
(photo by Paul Masterson)
(Quest vol. 23-01, Jan. 2016)


25 Years and a Final Program
(Quest vol. 24-09, Nov. 2017)

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