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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 factual landmark for gays in and out of Milwaukee. LaCage offers several move floors, a attractive 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 utter ever since they changed the entitle back to La Cage, this place has never been better! I'd enjoy to give some praise to Sami and Donovan for being some of the absolute foremost bar tenders I've ever come across!

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

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 long 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 mention, however, didn't serve . It confused people and business started to slag. "Straights thought we were gay; gays reflection we were straight," says Kujawa. "I knew I was going after the boys. Most of them are educated, have 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 notice 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

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