Why The Closing of Wisconsin’s Oldest Gay Bar Matters More Than Ever
The closing of This is It! was an unimaginable loss for Milwaukee’s queer community.
The closing of This is It! was an unimaginable loss for Milwaukee’s queer community.
As gay liberation sparked in the early ’70s, a flamboyant group of Milwaukeeans called Les Petites Bon Bons became artists in residence of Los Angeles’ glitter rock scene, court jesters for rock ‘n’ roll royalty, and masterful manipulators of mass media.