Dedicated in 1872 as a "breathing lung" for an increasingly industrial city, Juneau Park was already a known cruising ground by the turn of the century, likely due to its proximity to the Chicago North Western Depot. The cottage trade continued until spring 1960, when Judge Christ T. Seraphim launched a campaign of entrapment, violence and shame to eliminate the public health menace of gay men. Seraphim's war had human casualties, including Elroy Schulz, a brewery worker who was "justifiably" beaten to death by vice officers. Inspired by this climate of fear, Milwaukee's gay community became more defiant. Their rage expressed itself in the Black Nite Uprising of August 5, 1961, only a year after Schulz's murder. By the 1970s, Gay People's Union had reclaimed the park with "Gay-In" events, and Gay Liberation Front patrolled the park in search of gay bashers. Juneau Park also hosted PrideFest in 1990 and 1991, and the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin staffed preventative outreach in the park throughout the 1990s. When recreational sex moved to the internet, Juneau Park lost all its twilight reputation entirely.