The History Display at PrideFest 2009, called "Stonewall40Milwaukee", shifted to a 20x40' tent strategically located between the main entrance and Miller Stage. The display featured:
- Interactive Timeline: a decade by decade, year-by-year timeline of major events in the LGBT history of Milwaukee and Wisconsin, juxtaposed with some major national events. As with the first Timeline display in 2005, people were able to read existing entries, but also add their own recollections and comments in given year blocks.
- Bar Maps: Five maps were be presented, showing the locations of LGBT bars in Milwaukee each of the past 5 decades: the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Each map was accompanied by a list of bars shown on that map, and a master list of all bars known to have exist over the past 45 years, listed alphabetically.
- Video Presentation: "Some Call Them Gay": From September 24 to 28, 1973, television station WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee broadcast a five-part series on the city’s gay and lesbian community. The series, shown during the noon and 10 p.m. newscasts, was titled “Some Call Them Gay.” Reporter Jim Cummins wrote and directed. The relatively unprejudiced and objective representation of gay men and lesbians was remarkable for mass media of this period. The Milwaukee Press Club recognized “Some Call Them Gay” as the Best Television Documentary or Series of 1973 and praised “the quality of reporting and the sensitivity used on a subject so controversial in nature.” All five segments were played on a large screen TV inside the display area throughout the weekend. The footage was culled from the news film archives of WTMJ-TV, which is administered by the Archives Department at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
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display was produced by: Don Schwamb, Michael Doylen, Paul Williams, Bill Serpe, and Jerry Johnson, with contributions by Tom Brittnacher and Maureen Kane.
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2009 History Tent
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Front inside of Tent:
Timeline (left) and Bar Maps (right)
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Screening of 1970`s WTMJ News special:
"Some Call Them Gay"
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Bar Maps- Overview
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Bar Maps: 1960s and 1970s
Click here to view the individual Bar Maps
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Bar Maps: 1970s to 2000s
Click here to view the individual Bar Maps
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UWM Archives display
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UWM Archives display
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Timeline: Overview
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Timeline: Pre-Stonewall to 1971
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Timeline: 1972-79
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Timeline: 1980-87
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Timeline: 1986-91
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Timeline: 1992-95
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Timeline: 1996-2001
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Timeline: 2002-08
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The 2009 "Stonewall-40" History Project display at PrideFest was funded by the generous support of these sponsors:
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Main PrideFest 2009 page
Return to main Milwaukee LGBT History Project page.
