The former "rowdy teenager." (Deposit Photos)
To celebrate Madonna's 60th birthday on Thursday, the Daily Beast has a fun piece titled: "Seeing Madonna’s Michigan: A Cultural Tour of the Material Girl’s Home State."
The word and photo tour includes a walk down memory lane to the 1970s at Menjo's, a gay men's bar at 928 W. McNichols in the Palmer Park area of Detroit. Madonna went dancing there as a teen, Michael Luongo writes:
Tim McKee-Zazo, Menjo’s general manager, said that even to this day, “We get the Madonna question all the time,” from people who learn that this was likely the first gay bar the gay icon ever danced at.
Though he said he never met her, McKee has heard the stories from people who worked at Menjo’s at the time. “Before she went to New York and got famous, this was her hangout. Her period of coming here was the mid- to late ’70s, but then she was barred from coming,” he said, sharing a local legend.
“She got kicked out of here for pulling her vagina out. She was a rowdy teenager at the time.”
With few women going to the bar, Madonna would have been a very noticeable presence, no matter what she did.
