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Business · Milwaukee Deja-Vu 2nd Street in Milwaukee, open from August 1993 to about May 1994. It occupied a corner space that had previously housed the Oregon House and the Phoenix, part of a cluster of gay bars in the South 2nd Business · Milwaukee DK's Tavern National Avenue, operating from about 1985 to 1988. Run by an owner known as Dotie, it occupied a building that had been home to the popular lesbian bar Sugar Shack since 1976, and for a time it held Business · Milwaukee Hot Legs Video Nite Club Hot Legs Video Nite Club opened in late 1984 in the former Shadows bar space on South 2nd Street, run by co-owners Kathy and Karen. For a time it was Milwaukee's leading lesbian bar, fielding a softba Business · Milwaukee Jet's Place Kinnickinnic Avenue, open from 1986 to June 1991. Opened by a woman known as Jeanette ("Jet") primarily as a women's bar, it drew a broad following and was known for its Sunday afternoon parties. The Business · Milwaukee Leaded Shade II Leaded Shade II opened in November 1990 on South 1st Street as a renaming of the bar previously called The Alternative. Its owner revived the name of the original Leaded Shade, a women's bar she had r 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 N Business · Milwaukee Non-Sequitur It appears in the bar directories of several Wisconsin LGBTQ periodicals between October 1981 and May 1983. No advertisement or other mention of the bar beyond these listings has been located. 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