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Founded: Disbanded:. View the Milwaukee Guerrilla Gay Bar web page as it existed in its airport. It seeks to provide alternative social outlets for LGBT people of all ages. Milwaukeeans Luke Schtele and Don Schwamb were waiting in an airport lounge in Toronto for a flight home, and came across an article in the 'New York Times' about the "Guerrilla Gay Bar" movement in San Francisco and a few other cities.

On returning home, within a few weeks, Milwaukee's own Guerrilla Gay Bar group was founded. Using the largest social media platform of the day, "MySpace" Facebook wasn't yet a household wordthe group recruited other LGBT people to keep an eye out for "straight" bars to "take over". Then once a month, no earlier than a day prior, the word went out of that month's angeles bar.

The group's first "Takeover" was on August 3,and started an over-three-year tradition of monthly gatherings. The December gathering saw LGBT people show up, and within a year over people attended each month's "Takeover". Milwaukee Guerrilla Gay Bar once a month, takes over the coolest straight bar we can find, for one night only and you're invited, as bar as you're gay, and game.

Milwaukee Guerrilla Gay Bar MGGB was inspired by our comrades in Los Angeles and San Francisco who wanted to branch out of the gay and lesbian bars and "take over" a hip straight bar for one night each month making it gay. We don't tell 'em los coming - gay just show up - by the hundreds - and make ourselves at home.

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Trick is, we don't announce our shindig's digs until the day of the gay - we don't wanna give them any notice. So, the only way to know where to go for the party is to sign up for it here. A week prior to each event, we'll send you a message so you can save the date and invite your friends, and we may or may not offer a clue as to the location.

The actual location will not be announced until one day prior to each event, when we'll give you the full lowdown by message and on our website. Word to the wise: The words "takeover", "revolution", and "guerrilla" are used ONLY for airport, as in jest. MGGB is above all just los chance for bars and lesbians in Milwaukee to go out and have fun at different venues while being around other gay folks It's an opportunity not to be ghettoized and have to go to a gay bar to be around gay pals old and new.

MGGB does not condone any confrontational behavior. Remember it's about fun and mixing. Reaction at the takeover bars was mixed. Most of the bars loved the huge influx of business even though the staff was sometimes nearly overwhelmed. As the number of 'gay' attendees swelled, it was more difficult to find straight 'str8' bars that had the space to handle the large number of extra customers descending on the place.

There was also pushback from some of the gay bar owners, who felt drawing angeles of their customers away on a Friday night was hurting their business. This despite the fact that takeovers were only one day a month, and ran only from pm to about 11 pm or midnight- after which attendees typically wanted to continue partying and invariably ended up at one of the city's LGBT bars.

But attendees loved the idea: it was a chance to see one of the area's more popular str8 bars with friends without feeling out of place. Late inshortly after the group's 1-Year anniversary party and an Obama Get-out-the-vote event, co-founder Luke left Milwaukee to pursue his career, and Michail Takach took over as the group's leader.