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Business · Milwaukee Casablanca Disco Its opening was announced in a local calendar in mid-1979, but it had vanished from bar guides by April 1980. The same building later housed a succession of other LGBTQ bars, including Clay's Castaway Business · Milwaukee MacArthur Park Disco Lounge Kinnickinnic Avenue in Bay View, opening in June 1979 with a grand opening on July 10. The same location had previously been known to the gay community as the Red Corvette. The spacious, newly decorat Business · Milwaukee Out 'N About Out 'N About opened on South 1st Street in August 2003, in a building that had long held a popular straight bar and near the leather bar Harbor Room. It featured a sizable dance floor, a long bar, an Business · Milwaukee PumpHouse 1st Street in Milwaukee's Bay View, opened in fall 2006 by Michael Murray and David Skwarek in a converted 1931 water pumping station. Aiming to recreate a Chicago-style video bar, it offered a marina 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 Woody's Bar Woody's Bar opened on November 14, 1997, on South 2nd Street, in a building that had previously housed the gay bar B's. Founded by Steve Behl and Ray Arce, it quickly became a hit and established itse