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Business · Milwaukee Black Nite Black Nite was a downtown Milwaukee tavern that openly welcomed gay and gender-nonconforming patrons after Wally Whetham reopened the former Mary's Tavern under the new name in 1960. It is best rememb Business · Milwaukee Clifton Tap Clifton Tap was one of Milwaukee's earliest known gay bars, operating as the tavern of the Clifton House Hotel at 336 W. Juneau Street through the 1940s and 1950s until about 1965. Run by William Mans Business · Milwaukee Friendly Bar The Friendly Bar at 819 S. 2nd Street appears to have been the earliest of many LGBTQ-friendly bars to occupy its building. Originally opened by Croatian immigrants Mike and Julia Stjepanovic, it pass Business · Milwaukee Gaytime Bar Gaytime Bar was a Milwaukee tavern at 731 N. 4th Street that operated from the mid-1940s until 1968. It opened as a renamed successor to Sally's Cocktail Bar, a venue popular with gay men that had dra Business · Milwaukee Mary's Tap Mary's Tap, also called Mary's Tavern, was an early Milwaukee tavern at 400 N. Plankinton Avenue that counted gay patrons as a significant part of its clientele in the late 1950s. Previously known as Business · Milwaukee Mint Bar The Mint Bar had one of the longest histories of any Milwaukee gay bar. Opened by Christ Mares on New Year's Day 1949 at 422 W. State Street, two decades before Stonewall, the small, cozy tavern was a Business · Milwaukee Nite Beat Nite Beat was an early Milwaukee lesbian bar, considered the first such bar on the city's south side. Over roughly twelve years it occupied three locations—on West National Avenue and then two sites o Business · Milwaukee Pink Glove Pink Glove was an exceptionally short-lived Milwaukee gay bar at 631 N. Broadway, open for just 67 days in 1958. Opened by Marvin and Harold Klein in a remodeled former cocktail lounge, it is believed Business · Milwaukee Pink Pony Pink Pony was a men's cocktail lounge on West North Avenue, remembered as a gay-friendly bar from the mid-1950s into the early 1970s. Opened in 1953 in a former delicatessen, it was taken over by Albe Business · Milwaukee Riviera Riviera was a Milwaukee cocktail lounge and restaurant at 401 N. Plankinton Avenue, occupying a pre-Civil War warehouse that had earlier housed a gay-friendly tavern called the Anchor Inn. Reopened as Business · Milwaukee Sailor Ann's Sailor Ann's, originally the Sail & Rail Hotel & Buffet, was a Milwaukee dockside tavern opened in 1900 by Anna Gravelyn near the Reed Street Yards in Walker's Point. Serving Great Lakes sailors, dock Business · Milwaukee Seaway Inn Seaway Inn was a popular Milwaukee gay bar and restaurant at the corner of Jefferson and Wells Streets, near the Pfister Hotel. Otto Schuler opened it in 1959 in a former vegetarian restaurant buildin Business · Milwaukee This Is It This Is It opened in 1968 at 418 E. Wells Street in downtown Milwaukee, founded by June Brehm, who reportedly named the bar on first seeing the location. It became Wisconsin's longest-running LGBTQ ba Business · Milwaukee Tic Toc Club Tic Toc Club was a Milwaukee nightclub at 634 N. 5th Street, opened in 1940 by Albert Tusa. One of the city's first air-conditioned nightclubs, it was nationally noted for its Gardenia Room dinner the W Business · Milwaukee White Horse Inn White Horse Inn was a Milwaukee bar near the intersection of McKinley, 11th, and Winnebago Streets, documented in city directories from roughly the mid-1950s. It is chiefly remembered through oral his Business · Milwaukee Wildwood The Wildwood, also known as German's Wildwood, was a women's bar at 1430 W. Walnut Avenue on Milwaukee's near north side, operating from October 1959 to 1964. Remembered as a hangout for very butch le