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Business · Milwaukee 27th Street Danceteria The 27th Street Danceteria opened in March 1985 under Chuck Cicirello, a prolific Milwaukee gay-bar operator whose earlier ventures included the Neptune Club and the Factory bars. The building had pre Business · Milwaukee Boom / Club Boom & The Room Boom opened in 2000 at 625 S. 2nd Street in the space previously occupied by the gay bar In Between, after a new ownership couple took over the lease. Originally called Club Boom, it soon became known Business · Milwaukee Castaways It appears in the earliest national bar guides located by researchers, indicating it operated at least as early as 1961, and a 1969 guide praised it as one of the city's most fashionable spots for dan Business · Milwaukee Castaways South 2nd Street, opened around late 1970 or early 1971 when the earlier Castaways bar relocated from 424 W. McKinley. It advertised one of the largest dance floors in the Midwest and drew a mostly male cro Business · Milwaukee Circus (Planet Circus / Club Circus) Circus opened in July 1976 at 219 S. 2nd Street, billed as a disco and dance club, in a space that had recently housed the short-lived bars Gary's Dance Club and Mister Z's. Founded by George Prentice Business · Milwaukee Club 200 East (Jack) Club 200 East opened in June 2008 at 200 E. Washington Avenue, in the building long known as the lesbian bar Fannie's. It was another effort by Sharon Dixon, who had run Fannie's and later Pulse at th Business · Milwaukee Conversations Vliet Street that first appeared in LGBTQ bar listings in April 2004. Based on its limited advertising and location, it is believed to have catered primarily to Milwaukee's Black LGBTQ community. Its Business · Milwaukee D.I.X. Milwaukee D.I.X. Milwaukee, commonly called DIX, occupies a corner building at 739 S. 1st Street that had long operated as the straight bar Timers. Elizabeth Kujawa first opened the space in October 2007 under Business · Milwaukee Factory "3" Broadway. Set in a downtown warehouse building with 6,000 square feet of space and high ceilings, it was designed as a large dance and show venue echoing Cicirello's original Factory bar. Despite earl Business · Milwaukee Lost & Found The Lost & Found opened in late 1978 at 618 N. 27th Street, just south of Wisconsin Avenue, and was promoted as Milwaukee's first women's disco and later as Wisconsin's largest women's bar. Owned by P Business · Milwaukee Music Box Music Box opened in October 1984 on North 27th Street in the former site of the Lost & Found bar, advertising itself as being under new management. The bar offered dancing, a video system, and a mix o Business · Milwaukee Passion Washington Street, the third such venue in the building best known as the lesbian bar Fannie's. It operated from roughly December 2004 to about November 2005. The bar left little trace beyond listings Business · Appleton Pulse Pulse nightclub in Appleton may be one of the shortest-lasting clubs with the biggest start-up media splash. First appearing in the Bar Guide listings of Quest magazine in January 2008 (vol.15-01), th Business · Milwaukee Red Corvette Nightclub The Red Corvette was a straight bar on South Kinnickinnic Avenue that, from about 1976 to 1979, welcomed gay and lesbian patrons on Sunday "gay nights." As disco grew, the downtown Park Avenue bar ove Business · Milwaukee The Orbit The Orbit operated from February 1999 to August 2003 at 739 S. 2nd Street, in an early-1900s building that had previously been a pharmacy and later an organ-piper nightclub with hand-painted murals. T Business · Milwaukee The River Queen (also Side Door and Jocks) The River Queen was one of Milwaukee's most legendary gay and drag bars, operating from 1971 at 402 N. Water Street in the historic Cross Keys Hotel, a building dating to 1853. Opened by Al Berry, who