“A lack of Sunday barbecues and Saturday night crowds. “There has since been a vacancy in the black gay community,” says Anderson. The Ring and Richards location closed in 2001 due to lack of adequate parking, management issues and the patrons were concerned about crime. The final home for Art & Tony’s on the corner of Richards and Ring Streets. Tina opened a new bar on 7th Street and North Avenue which became home to primarily African-American lesbians and Art and Tony’s moved to 2nd Street and Keefe Avenue and then Richards and Ring Streets. Sisters later became Art and Tony’s, a black gay bar that drew people from Racine and Chicago as well as locally. Sisters was located in this space on 17th and Fond du Lac.
