Nut Hut
Milwaukee
Summary
The Nut Hut, long known as Kathy's Nut Hut, was a Milwaukee tavern on West Scott Street that became the city's longest-running women's bar. It grew out of a neighborhood bar that Sharon Dixon opened in 1979; after Kathy Kau took it over and reopened it under the Nut Hut name in the early 1980s, it quietly drew a lesbian following before openly identifying as a gay and lesbian bar in 1992.
Celebrated as a welcoming melting pot of longtime neighbors, sports teams, and LGBTQ patrons, the bar later passed to Michelle Murphy and her partner Dawn Musbach. It closed in February 2014 after a 34-year run, leaving Walker's Pint as the city's last remaining women's bar.