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Women Who Want to Dance! hosts a fete the fourth Saturday of each month at Adair's Lounge (121 W. Some wore color-coded stickers on their chests, which had to do with a speed-dating process that was under way. At least 150 women, most in their 30s or older, danced to 1980s music, or simply drank and talked. The Women Who Want to Dance! party on March 10 at Club 5 was a jolly affair. The Saturday affairs are organized by Women Who Want to Dance!, a new group that staged its first dance at the club last fall.
Women's Night is held the second Saturday of the month and the fourth Wednesday. In the gay community, he said, enjoying country music is more of a stigma than being a Republican.Ĭlub 5 hosts performances by drag queens, board-game nights, even the odd spelling bee. The organizer of the events is Richard Kilmer, who on Saturday was wearing a bright red cowboy shirt. And what brought him to the Dairyland Cowboys and Cowgirls in the first place? 'I was looking for a positive social interaction that didn't involve sex.'
'It's a great way to lose weight,' he said. Last Saturday saw about 20 dancers stepping to tunes by Hal Ketchum and Faith Hill (and, improbably, to Enya ' it is a gay line-dancing club, after all).Īfter one dance, Janesville's Ron Collins, towering in boots and cowboy hat, was panting. But at other times, Grunewald lets various groups hold events.įor example, early every Monday evening, and each third Saturday of the month, the dance floor is taken over by the Dairyland Cowboys and Cowgirls, a queer country line-dancing club that has met at various Madison venues since 1993. Most evenings after 10, the scene at Club 5 is about what you would expect at a gay dance club: pulsing music, men drinking and dancing and eyeing one another. Club 5 has its detractors ' a common complaint is that its location south of the Beltline is too far from downtown ' but owner Ed Grunewald deserves credit for running what sometimes seems like a community center for Madison queer folk, with cocktails and a jukebox. The sprawling Club 5 complex is arguably the city's, most prominent gay bar. Outbound reports that even Green Bay itself, half the size of Madison, boasts five gay nightspots. Madison has just three manifestly gay bars, compared to the 21 Milwaukee gay bars listed in the most recent issue of Outbound Magazine, the Green Bay-based gay entertainment periodical. In fact, the gay nightlife here sometimes seems not to have a core at all. And although leather competitions and throbbing dance music can be found by those who seek them, they are not, as in some cities, at the core of the gay nightlife experience here. There certainly are gay bars here, as in most cities, but there are fewer of them today than there were just three years ago. Outside the Barracks, in the cavernous main room of Club 5, another dance party was afoot.īut there's something funny about Madison's gay nightlife. It was another Saturday evening in Madison's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-themed nightlife, not much different from any other ' except that the drag queens were wearing leather. Midwest Leather contest, and the winner of that event is in the running for the title of International Mr. Madison Leather would go on to compete in the Mr. Held earlier this month in the cramped confines of the Barracks, the leather-bar component of the rambling south-side gay nightspot Club 5 (5 Applegate Court), the pageant had ramifications beyond the city's borders. Only one question remained: Who looked best in a studded leather jockstrap? They had sweetly answered questions about helping their communities, and the panel of judges had carefully evaluated them as they stood on the stage. The pageant contestants had already paraded about looking pretty in eveningwear.