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Business · Milwaukee Art Bar Art Bar opened in March 2004 in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, well outside the city's traditional LGBTQ bar district. Founded by partners Don Krause and John Tomlinson, it cultivated an artsy, w 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 BTW Lounge Billing itself as a one-of-a-kind lounge, it offered events such as drag bingo, karaoke, brunches, body-painting parties, and go-go and swimsuit contests. Despite a prime location near downtown festiv C Place · Milwaukee Cathedral Square Park Cathedral Square Park is a downtown Milwaukee public square that has been used for civic events and, in recent years, LGBTQ+ visibility efforts including rainbow crosswalk installations recognized by 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 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 · Sheboygan Filibusters aka Club Nautilus Filibusters bar in Sheboygan was the city's second LGBTQ bar when it opened in late summer/ early fall of 2013. According to an article in the October 2013 issue of "Wisconsin Gazette" newspaper (vol. Business · Milwaukee Ginger 2nd Street in Milwaukee's Walker's Point, open from about 2008 to 2015. Though it placed little advertising in LGBT print media, it was well known in the community and hosted gatherings such as a Guer Business · Milwaukee Harbor Room The Harbor Room opened in July 2000 at 117 E. Greenfield Avenue, founded by Gregg Fitzpatrick as a levi and leather bar a few blocks south of the main bar district. It occupies a 1907 building that ha Business · Milwaukee Hybrid Lounge Brady Street in Milwaukee, open from March 2010 to February 2017. Co-owners Nate Fried and Bill Lison, who had both worked at the LaCage dance club, designed it as a "hybrid" gay-and-straight neighbor Business · Milwaukee Kruz Kruz opened in late 2006 on E. National Avenue, founded by longtime gay-bar bartender and manager Jerry Breiling together with his partner Serge Bellitelli. It took over a building that had previously Business · Oshkosh PJ's The bar "PJ's" at 1601 Oregon Street in Oshkosh first appeared in the Bar Guide of Quest magazine vol. 17-issue 6 in April 2010. An early listing on Facebook read "We are a new bar here in Oshkosh. We Business · Milwaukee Studio 200 Washington Street, open from about 2011 to 2018. It was the last in a long line of LGBTQ bars at the address run or originated by Sharon Dixon, who first opened the space in the early 1980s as the les Business · Milwaukee TempT Mason Street, next door to Karl Ratzsch's restaurant. Promoted as combining the intimacy of a lounge with the energy of a nightclub, it was well appointed and advertised heavily, frequently taking the Business · Milwaukee Walker's Pint Walker's Pint opened on July 12, 2001, at 818 S. 2nd Street in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood, founded as a women's bar by Elizabeth "Bet'z" Boenning with co-owner Becky Persin. Boenning, who