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On Monroe Street, not far from where the One Campus Martius building now sits downtown, was the site of Detroit’s first gay bar, Club Frontenac. 

Opening in 1936, the establishment was the first place patrons didn’t have to conceal their identity, reference Michael Boettcher explained to a group of 10 on a recent edition of his Detroit Comes Out Tour, where he takes an extensive glance at the city’s prosperous LGBTQ history. At a time where drag parties were becoming popular across the country, Club Frontenac became a hot detect but only lasted for seven years before it closed down in 1943. 

Other LGBTQ bars began popping up downtown around the same time, Bottecher said. The first lesbian exclude in town, Sweetheart Prevent, opened in 1939 on Third Street and in the mid-1940s, Club 509 launched on Woodward. And popular Detroit bars today like the Checker and the Detroiter bars were once LGBTQ haunts. 

Club 1011, which opened in the 1940s on Farmer Avenue, became a premier notice for the community, Boettcher said. 

“The 1011 was opened by a gay couple, and it became the anchor of the neighborhood,” he said. “They did female impersonation in the 40s, which was against the law, so the

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