Milwaukee gay neighborhood

The staff here was absolutely amazing! Every bartender, dancer and cocktail server was so sweet! They made our celebration a nigh to remember! Thankyou La Cage!

LaCage has been a genuine landmark for gays in and out of Milwaukee. LaCage offers several move floors, a gorgeous updated upstairs and another bar downstairs which offers another feel to this large nightclub!

I've been here more than a handful of times, and I can speak ever since they changed the designate back to La Cage, this place has never been better! I'd favor to give some praise to Sami and Donovan for being some of the absolute finest bar tenders I've ever come across!

This is a pleasurable place. They're usually not so engaged on Fridays and there's not that many people there but Saturdays are pretty busy and full. They usually have drag shows on the foremost flo

Daily Events

Open at 3PM Sunday - Saturday

Effective May 1st 2024:

Open 3pm Monday - Friday, 1pm Saturday & Sunday

For tickets to upcoming events please see our page at Eventbrite.

All events are 21+ unless otherwise stated. Detailed listing of events are on Facebook.

Monday

Karaoke – Moonlight Karaoke every Monday at 9pm.

Tuesday

Two for One Tuesday - 2.4.1 Rail mixers and tap beers open until end 3pm-2am.

Wednesday

Trivia – free-to-play trivia every Wednesday at 7pm, win exclude tabs and gift cards.

18+ Darkness - Milwaukee’s only LGBT+ 18+ night featuring a 10:00pm kingly show with upcoming queens and a DJ until close, $10 cover if under 21, 8pm-close.

Thursday

Tequila Thursdays - $1 Off tequila shots and mixers.

Drag Bingo – hosted by Flonase every week, 5:30pm-8pm.

Drag Shows - Follow our event calendar on Facebook. to see what shows we include lined up!

Friday

Drag Shows - 10:00pm. Follow our event calendar on Facebook. to see what shows we have lined up!

The twist floor opens with one of our house DJs after every drag show!

Saturday

Drag Shows - 10:00pm. Follow our event calendar on Facebook. to see what shows we have lined up!

The move floor opens wi

D.I.X. Milwaukee, known locally simply as 'DIX', was formally opened June 11, 2010 by Elizabeth Kujawa. It occupied the space on the corner of National Ave. and S. 1st Street which had lengthy been known as a 'straight' bar, 'Timers'.

However, according to an article OnMilwaukee in 2016, Kujawa originally opened the former 'Timers' bar in October 2007, calling it "The General's" because friends gave her "The General" as a nickname. The article goes on:

"The first name, however, didn't work. It lost people and business started to slag. "Straights mind we were gay; gays thought we were straight," says Kujawa. "I knew I was going after the boys. Most of them are educated, hold money, no kids and they like to drink," she says. "And after all, I'm in the heart of the gayborhood."

"She went on gaycities.com and researched the name of other gay bars... Nothing jumped out at her, but she did perceive a number of bars called "Dick's" and she got an idea. She decided to change the spelling to D.I.X. because of the correlation with Roman Numerals- DIX is 509 in Roman numerals. Historically, Roman men often had male lovers before they got married to women."

In an article in "Quest

LGBTQ Milwaukee: A Town with a Friendly Midwestern Welcome

Situated on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan, Milwaukee is Wisconsin’s largest city, and one of its most diverse. In fact, in 2016, Milwaukee was ranked as one of the top 10 “Under the Gaydar” cities in the country, for its wide variety of gay nightlife options, hospitality, and for holding one of the nation’s largest and longest-running identity festival events each year. Truly it is a city of midwestern hospitality that celebrates all of its wonderful diversity and the broad variety of people that make it wonderful.

A Little Milwaukee History

The area that is now Milwaukee was the house of many Native American tribes prior to its latest history, which began in 1795 when fur trader Jacques Vieau established a post along a bluff on the east side, overlooking the Milwaukee and Menomonee rivers. That post eventually became the city of Milwaukee, which is a derivative of the Algonquian synonyms Millioke, meaning "Good", "Beautiful" and "Pleasant Land". Today, Milwaukee is a thriving city full of many industries and ample opportunity, with plenty to view and do. It’s also well-known for its breweries, its co