Rodney Scheel

Rodney Scheel was a Madison, Wisconsin bar owner and a significant figure in the city's LGBTQ business history during the 1970s through the 1990s. He was a proprietor of the Back Door (opened 1972) and later opened Rod's, a Madison LGBT landmark of the 1980s and 1990s located in the Hotel Washington, which at its height housed multiple LGBT businesses.(Text of biography from the Wisconsin Light newspaper, Volume 3 issue 15, on Rodney's death.) Rodney Scheel was the founder and owner of the bar "Rod's", in Madison, which was to become a gay icon and legend among gay men.

Located in the lower level (basement) of the Hotel Washington just west of downtown Madis