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“The bar scene is traditionally the cornerstone where gays tend to meet. “A black gay bar gives voice to black gay men and women,” says Anderson. “La Cage gave way to a generation of gays that readily embraced one another regardless of gender, color, sexual orientation or various degrees of what we now call ‘queer.'”īut it’s not the same as having a North Side club specifically for the African American gay scene. “La Cage catered to a younger and more mainstream music crowd and became a hit venue for the female impersonators of all races and nationalities,” says Anderson. To my knowledge, there is no place for the old black gay folks to play cards all day or go shoot pool, unless they go to Kruz or The Harbor Room.”Īnderson says the now-defunct Club 219, which was located on Second Street in Walker’s Point, was very welcoming to African American LGBTQ community as was La Cage.
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“A lack of Sunday barbecues and Saturday night crowds. “There has since been a vacancy in the black gay community,” says Anderson. The Ring and Richards location closed in 2001 due to lack of adequate parking, management issues and the patrons were concerned about crime. The final home for Art & Tony’s on the corner of Richards and Ring Streets. Tina opened a new bar on 7th Street and North Avenue which became home to primarily African-American lesbians and Art and Tony’s moved to 2nd Street and Keefe Avenue and then Richards and Ring Streets. Sisters later became Art and Tony’s, a black gay bar that drew people from Racine and Chicago as well as locally. Sisters was located in this space on 17th and Fond du Lac.