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Stevens Point is known as a LGBTQ friendly hub in central Wisconsin. Here's how the city stands out from its more conservative neighbors.

The city's burgeoning LGBTQ community draws from its counterculture roots and LGBTQ making the choice to put themselves out in public.

STEVENS POINT – Tucked away in Nelsonville, a small village 20 miles east of Stevens Gesture, Rubina Martini runs a bed and breakfast that sees a hundred or so guests a year. 

Like any good host, Martini suggests places for guests to visit. Since about 90% of the Tomorrow River Homestead's guests identify within the LGBTQ umbrella or are people of color, they recommend places and businesses known for being welcoming to their guests.

"(My guests) are always blown away by how much there is to do," Martini said. "We did a lot of work and took a lot of care in figuring out how to invite people who aren’t white and aren’t straight into a space where they traditionally don’t feel safe." 

The bed and breakfast is a barometer, in a way, of the welcoming nature in this slice of main Wisconsin.

The city of roughly 26,000 routinely sits as a sea of sky,











  

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1101 West=Appleton, 1101 W. Wisconsin Ave.19801988
602 Club=Madison, 602 University Ave.19511994
AJ's on Broadway=Green Bay, 311 S. Broadway20032005
After Gloomy Lounge=Oshkosh, 2839 Harrison198019811
Allegre=Madison, 150 S. Blair199519984renamed Manoeuvres
Aphrodesia Lounge, Retlaw Hotel=Fond du Lac, Main & Division19731976
Astor Hotel Bar=Green Bay, 21 N. Adams19631969
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Stevens Point's LGBTQ pride festival returns with two days of events, greater variety

Editor's note: Due to forecasted rain and possible thunderstorms, the organizers of the Stevens Point Pride Festival have moved Saturday's event to the Holiday Inn and Convention Center, 1001 Amber Ave.

STEVENS POINT – As many as 3,000 people noted part of LGBTQ Lgbtq+ fest Month in Stevens Signal last year — and organizers think they could surpass that attendance this year. 

Point Pride will return June 10-11, expanding to include a pub crawl on Friday in downtown Stevens Signal before the Saturday festival at the Holiday Inn and Convention Center, 1001 Amber Ave., said Ryan Goszkowicz, event director for Indicate Pride. 

"We're trying to increase the number of days of events every year," Goszkowicz said. 

Point Pride will go into the festival with almost $14,000 to spend on the event, doubling what organizers had available last year, he said. The extra money means they'll hold more giveaways and more variety in entertainment – such as a bounce house for children. 

Last year helped cement the festival in

Almost nothing is known of the Platwood Club in Stevens Point. We contain thus far located a single advertisement that mentions several events held there for the Mid-Wisconsin Homosexual Alliance (formerly 'M.N.D.C. Plus', of which equally small is known). We hold thus far been fit to locate only available advertisement for the Plaatwood Club itself, from 2000.

However, we have located an article in the October 22- November 4, 1998 issue of Wisconsin Soft , that reads: "...the Platwood Club in Stevens Indicate has reopened at least temporarily. It seems that manager Todd Pike ended his ten year stint there... Owner Hank Duda says that the prevent will be open on Fridays and Saturdays for a couple of weeks... Hank is a 70-year-old 'straight but not narrow' pig farmer by day." This blurb certainly implies the bar was opened sometime prior to October 1988. We continue to find the bar listed in LGBT media Exclude Guides only through October 2002, and nothing after.

Note that the address used for this businesss at the time was along the then- Highway 10 W. In the first 2000's, Highway-10 was rebuilt along a different road as a freeway and the old address is no longer relevant to the new Highway 10.

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