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Club Tabu is an 18 & up men's alternative lounge in Lansing, Michigan. We are located within Fantasies Unlimited! Club Tabu focus on Lgbtq+, Bi, Trans Men with a BDSM Flavour and a commitment to discretion and privacy.It is complete with a large maze, modifying areas, booths and more! It contains an extensive network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle through which one has to find a way, and in our case, it is very dim and made with walls that contain a few holes in them.
This creates privacy for anyone that would favor to have their meeting with utmost discretion, which is a high priority at Club Tabu, and also allows for the shelter and security.
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BDSM Flavour
Large maze
Changing areas
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Sunday - Thursday 10am-Midnight; Friday - Saturday 10am-6amReviews: Club Tabu
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East Lansing Progressive on LGBT Civil Rights but No Gay Block in City Limits
Forty-four years ago, the City of East Lansing was the first community in the United States to present its gay citizens civil rights protection under law. But strangely enough, this progressive city has never been home to a gay bar.
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Bruce Hart, a Los Angeles actor who appears in the digital series “Old Dogs & New Tricks”, attended Michigan State from 1977 to 1982. He said those years were a liberal time on campus and in the Lansing area, but none of the same-sex attracted bars were in East Lansing. “There were three bars located in Lansing. And they were located in a fairly harsh neighborhood. Going to a gay block for the first time was incredible. I was on a date with a guy who had a car, which is probably why I dated him, and we went to Trammp’s in Lansing. It was both a bar and a disco. It had small dance floor lined with mirrors. My first trip there the bar was having a drag show, another first for me. I could not assume these glamorous ladies were men, until they started talking. I didn't understand drag and found it entertaining but alien. Another first for me in that club was seeing two men kissing
From the Archives: Spiral Boogie Bar at 20
LANSING — In October of 1998, Elderly Town was abuzz. Spiral, a new dance bar, had appear to town.
Spiral became the talk of the queer community around Michigan. It drew capacity crowds (just under 300) and patrons from as far off as Kalamazoo and Flint, four nights a week.
Tom Donall, an established Old Town investor and artist, sunk two years of his animation and a half-million dollars into what had been an abandoned eyesore at Clinton and Center streets.
He built on the site, adding a 2,000- square-foot twist floor outfitted with laser lights, which bumped up the building's size to just under 4,000 square feet.
Donall told the State Journal in 2017 that he opened Spiral, in part, because he "wanted to build a territory for the LGBT community" and, in part as a "space for my hold creativity."
The restored warehouse in the city's burgeoning alternative downtown district boasted deep-red velvet drapes cascading from its tall ceilings.
The stainless steel bar was covered in hand-polished spirals contrasting with the building's 83-year-old exposed brick.
The royal purple bar stools and ornate hand-crafted metal furnishings created almost a techn
Hidden, then and now
Todd Heywood
Retzloff
What they probably don’t comprehend is that this was once residence to Olsen’s, which during the 1950s was one the few Lansing bars serving the region’s persecuted and underground homosexual community.
It’s a footnote in a slice of Lansing culture largely beaten in time, though slowly being resurrected by Tim Retzloff, an assistant professor of history and LGBTQ studies at MSU.
Retzloff, working with archive staff at the MSU Archives, uncovered a Feb 25, 1957, “sex deviation” report compiled by Ralph Ryal with the Michigan State University Police Department. The state reveals the oldest reference to a bar — Olsen’s — where queer men gathered to socialize.
An archival image of the Palador Cafe, 325 N. Washington Ave., in the tardy '30s or preliminary '40s. This location turned into Olsen's Bar in the mid-'50s and by the end of the decade had become the Clique Lounge, according to Heidi Butler, local history librarian at the Capital Area District Library.
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