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Green Bay LGBTQ City Guide
Green Bay, Wisconsin, is a vibrant, diverse Wisconsin town that is well-known for being the home of the Green Bay Packers football team. Beyond existence home to some incredible football, this industrial town also boasts several astounding museums, a beautiful view of the Fox River, several colleges and universities, and a thriving arts and culture scene. Even finer , it is also a very diverse and welcoming city with a thriving LGBTQ community. Those who choose to move to Green Bay will uncover plenty about it to love!
A Look at Verdant Bay's History
Green Bay is named after is part of Lake Michigan. It is separated from the rest of the lake by a bit of land called the Door Peninsula, which is characterized by green algae in the water, which originally lent its specify to the city. It initially began to expand due to its strategic location as a signal of trade and gateway to the Fox, Wisconsin, and Mississippi Rivers. Subsequently, in the 1870s, when the railroads began to replace steamboats as the main form of transportation, Green Bay became a center of iron smelting, lumber milling, and sheet products. It has grown steadily since its founding, and today
'Born out of bars': Clubs and bars vital to northeastern Wisconsin LGBTQ collective for almost 50 years now
GREEN BAY - Stacy DeSotel and Butch Pendergast decided to mark Aaron Rodgers Day, Dec. 12, 2012, by buying a piece of Green Bay, and Wisconsin, history.
On that diurnal, almost eight years ago, the married couple bought Napalese Lounge and Grille on Cedar Street, Wisconsin's second-oldest LGBTQ bar. Pendergast wasn't sure about buying a bar at the time but is now glad DeSotel convinced him.
"Despite my reservations at the time, I wouldn't change it for anything now," Pendergast said. "Nap's has been a staple in the society for 38 years. I love it."
Places like Napalese Lounge and Grille and its predecessors, both locally and nationally, were instrumental in helping the LGBTQ community find its voice in its 50-plus year fight for same rights.
The Stonewall riots in New York City energized the gay rights movement in 1969, and as LGBTQ people searched for shared experiences and safe spaces, they found them at bars and clubs that openly welcomed them.
Starting in the 1970s, a handful of bars and clubs in Green Bay, Appleton, Sheboygan and Oshkosh openly welcomed LGBT
Originally opened as Za's (on Bodart Way) by Impression 'Za' Mariucci (who went on to open several other bars as successfully, and also founded and ran 'Quest' magazine, a Wisconsin LGBT periodical for 25 years), along with Ken Kujava, in mid-1991 the two moved the business to Main Road and renamed it simply Za's.
When they moved in, the building was a shell and had to be completely re-done over the summer of 1991. The business was divided into two separate bars: ZA's Video Bar (the dance bar), and JAVA's (a lounge).
For a decade the bar was extremely popular with the Northeast Wisconsin LGBT community, hosting many events. (See Images page link above.)
In July 1998, a restaurant, Cafe Bourbon, opened in the other half of the same building, with ads saying "located within Za's". (A connecting door to the Cafe was inside Za's, but the Cafe also had a door to the outside.)
(Note that the business celebrated its Anniversary based on the anniversary on which the original Za's (on Bodart) opened in July 1989.)
In April 2000, co-owner Ken Kujava died unexpectedly, and co-owner Mark 'Za' Mariucci was unable to contact an amicable settlement with Ken's estate. Za's prevent and Quest m
One of the oldest same-sex attracted bars in Wisconsin is getting a new Gay mural
GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Loschue Lo wanted to send a note to young queer people through the first mural he's ever painted.
“It’s really important to have that representation in this community," he said. "For the intersectionality of being gender non-conforming as well as creature a person of hue. They walk by here every day and seeing that might hopefully stimulate them to coming out, or helping them know who they are and making them feel visible.“
Founded in 1982, the Napalese Lounge and Grille in Green Bay is the second-oldest gay bar in the state of Wisconsin. This week, Lo, the UWGB art student whose concept was selected by a mural project committee, began tracing, putting down tape and painting. His mural will depict the progressive pride flag, with transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera and the words ‘We will be seen.'
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“I believe that this mural is very important to the community of Lush Bay because there hasn’t been anything like this," said Lo. "I recall when I was introduced to this project, I was driving around getting some inspiration, and I realized that there was
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