These aren’t just token efforts, either: Short Stack is intimately intertwined with Madison. And no matter what this hypothetical friend and I order, we’d be helping to support local grassroots community organizations and to fund events like “Better Together,” which celebrated “love in all its forms” this past Valentine’s Day. Everybody can get exactly what they want.
I could come to Short Stack and chow down on eggs Benedict while a friend drinks a cocktail, perhaps the London-fog inspired beverage that’s currently on the seasonal menu, featuring gin, iced earl grey tea, lavender, thyme, lemon, and blueberries. Lindenmeyer is aware that Wisconsin consistently shows up at or near the top of lists of states that have problems with excessive drinking, so she wants customers to have lots of options and to be able to customize their experience. After sunrise, the crowd shifts again as parents and their children try to beat the slightly younger brunch crowd who will form long lines outside the door by 11.
MADISON SHORT STACK MENU FULL
(It may not be a bar, per se, but Short Stack does have a full bar in the center of its space.) As late Saturday night becomes early Sunday morning, service industry workers getting off their shifts at nearby establishments show up to have a quiet nightcap or perhaps a 4 AM meal. At peak bar time, Lindenmeyer says, “it’s a little bit of a shitshow” with a “ton of people” piling into the place for big piles of food and drink. When there’s a show nearby at the Museum of Contemporary Art or the Orpheum Theater, Madisonites who are out on the town will stop in for cocktails and dessert pancakes. Short Stack isn’t an exclusively LGBTQ+-focused establishment, but it can feel like many different things depending on when you arrive, and its vibe morphs continuously over the course of a weekend. If this shit makes you uncomfortable, you should have conversations about why it makes you uncomfortable.’” We need to continue to say, ‘Hey, this is what Madison is about. “I think it’s important that it’s not a Pride Month thing alone - that we’re really visible. “I think it’s important that these stay up year-round,” Lindenmeyer says, gesturing up at the flags. (Unlike Minnesota to the west and Illinois to the South, for example, Wisconsin has no non-discrimination protections for transgender people and no laws that specifically prohibit anti-LGBTQ+ bullying in schools, ) It mostly comes in the form of direct messages and a handful of nasty emails about “keep politics out of breakfast.” Madison has developed a reputation for being friendly to LGBTQ+ people, but no place is a queer paradise - a ways away from full equality compared to some of its Midwestern neighbors. “We have to support the community that supports us.”ĭisplaying Pride flags in such a prominent location has led to some “very minimal quiet pushback from people,” Lindenmeyer says. “When you’re a public-facing entity, you have real humans in here and I think that’s important,” Alex Lindenmeyer says. “We waited to be intentional about our visibility, about being a centrally-located space, and being really community-driven.” “It’s the busiest pedestrian intersection in the city,” says Lindenmeyer, who specifically held out for this location, even though she and her business partner Sinéad McHugh could have opened Short Stack elsewhere sooner than 2014. (And anyone who waits in the brunch line during peak hours will spend a lot of time looking at them.) If you spend any time in downtown Madison, they’re impossible to miss.
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That award is one that Short Stack wears with pride: Two of the eatery’s large front-facing windows are covered with flags, the transgender pride flag draped over one, and Philadelphia’s rainbow flag with black and brown stripes covering the other. In 2018, as the Badger Herald reported, the restaurant won the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce Allied Business of the Year Award for its business practices and its involvement in the local community, which includes partnerships with racial justice organizations and support for local sustainablity initiatives. But Short Stack isn’t just a monument to french toast and pancakes it’s also a bastion of LGBTQ+ inclusion.
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