Milwaukee set to designate the site of the Black Nite, a gay tavern historians believe to be where one of the nation's first recorded LGBTQ took place, as a landmark.
Wisconsin LGBTQ History ProjectIn the early evening hours of Aug. 5, 1961, Josie Carter was sitting at the bar in the Black Nite, a gay tavern in Milwaukee, doing her makeup in her bathrobe.
Historian Michail Takach, who nominated the bar for landmark recognition, said the Black Nite brawl was almost lost to history, in part because Carter was so modest and humble that she didn’t want herself or the event commemorated while she was alive. She died in 2014 at the age of 73. “A group of Navy trainees went to the Black Nite on a dare, they knew it was a gay bar. ... The Black Nite was targeted because it was a gay bar,” Buck said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Witnesses later told police that as the servicemen left, one of them said, “We’ll be back. We’ll return with some friends and clean up the place,” according to the Sentinel. But some Black Nite patrons were scared of potentially being arrested if they fought back, because most were not out and many had a wife and kids at home, Carter told Takach.
The group entered and “started to tear the place apart,” according to bar employees, the Milwaukee Sentinel reported the next day.
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