A Gay Gui to the Castro - bars, culture & history - Travel Gay

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• MAKE RESERVATIONSSAN ANCIS(FUNCTN(D){VAR S = D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");S.SETATTRIBUTE("DATA-ACUNT", "YRDJVSVOEM");S.SETATTRIBUTE("SRC", ");( || ).APPENDCHILD(S);})(DOCUMENT)PLEASE ENSURE JAVASCRIPT IS ENABLED FOR PURPOS OF WEBSE ACCSIBILYTHE ASIASF STORYASIASF HAS BEEN A VISIONARY PIONEER IN SUPPORTING THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY FOR OVER 25 YEARSIN 1998, A SMALL BS SAN FRANCIS’S SOMA NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT CELEBRAT DIVERSY AND MULTICULTURALISM WAS BORN, ASIASF! THE WORLD FAMO RTRANT, BARET AND NIGHTCLUB IS AN INIC ENTERTAMENT LANDMARK THAT HAS SPIRED OVER ONE LN PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD WH GREAT FOOD AND ENTERTAMENT.THESTORYTHE LADIES OF ASIASFOUR STAR PERFORMERS MAKE YOU LGH, MAKE YOU BLH, MAKE YOU “WOW!”. CHOREOGRAPHED DANCE ROUT, LIP SYNC NUMBERS, LIVE SGG, EDY, AND SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE JT SOME OF THE TALENTS THE LADI OF ASIASF BRG TO THE NWAY STAGE.THIS SISTERHOOD OF DIVERSE BAY AREA PERFORMERS HAVE MASTERED THE ART OF CELEBRATG THEMSELV, AND THEY PROVI A WARM, WELG ATMOSPHERE TO CELEBRATE FABULO YOU! BE SURE TO SAMPLE OUR SIGNATURE CKTAILS THAT ARE NAMED AFTER EACH OF THE LADI! DON’T FET TO HASHTAG #ASIASF AND SHARE ON ALL YOUR FAVORE SOCIAL S!ONCE SI, YOU ARE WELE TO NTUE TO TAKE PHOTOS AND VIO OF THE SHOW, OR STRIKE A POSE WH ONE OF THE GLAMORO LADI OF ASIASF.AARON NELSONLARRY HASHBARGERSKIP YOUNGAARON JOED ASIASF SHORTLY AFTER ’S CEPTN 2000, AND BEME AN OWNERSHIP PARTNER 2010. A PREV SMALL BS OWNER, HIS PASSN FOR THE HOSPALY DTRY AND ATTENTN TO TAIL LENDS SELF PERFECTLY TO ASIASF’S UNIQUE OFFERGS OF NIGHTLIFE, DG, AND ENTERTAMENT. WHEN HE HAS SOME TIME TO GET AWAY, HE STILL ENJOYS RETURNG HOME TO HIS NATIVE CY OF CHI, CA.IN ADDN TO BEG A FOUNR AND CREATIVE FORCE BEHD ASIASF, LARRY WAS THE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PRODUCTNS FOR MACY’S WT. IN THAT ROLE, HE PRODUCED PASSPORT – AMERI’S PREMIER FASHN SHOW AND AIDS FUNDRAISER. HE ALSO FOUND CLUB ASIA – A LARGE LATE NIGHT ASIAN GAY DANCE CLUB THAT OPERATED FOR OVER 6 YEARS. HE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMY OF FRIENDS AND WAS THE ANIZATN’S CHAIRMAN FOR TWO YEARS.SKIP WAS AN VTMENT ADVISOR FOR TEN YEARS AND FOR SEVEN YEARS VICE PRINT, CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR RTC, A SUBSIDIARY OF WPP GROUP PLC – THE WORLD’S LARGT ADVERTISG NGLOMERATE. FOR FIFTEEN YEARS HE HAS BEEN PRINT OF THE CHOO-SAN GOH – H. ROBERT MAGEE FOUNDATN, AWARDG CHOREOGRAPHIC GRANTS TO DANCE PANI WORLDWI. MR. YOUNG IS ALSO AN EAGLE SUT.THE PIONEERS OF ASIASF
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• A GAY GUI TO THE CASTRO

MAKE RESERVATIONSSAN ANCIS(FUNCTN(D){VAR S = D.CREATEELEMENT("SCRIPT");S.SETATTRIBUTE("DATA-ACUNT", "YRDJVSVOEM");S.SETATTRIBUTE("SRC", ");( || ).APPENDCHILD(S);})(DOCUMENT)PLEASE ENSURE JAVASCRIPT IS ENABLED FOR PURPOS OF WEBSE ACCSIBILYTHE ASIASF STORYASIASF HAS BEEN A VISIONARY PIONEER IN SUPPORTING THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY FOR OVER 25 YEARSIN 1998, A SMALL BS SAN FRANCIS’S SOMA NEIGHBORHOOD, THAT CELEBRAT DIVERSY AND MULTICULTURALISM WAS BORN, ASIASF! THE WORLD FAMO RTRANT, BARET AND NIGHTCLUB IS AN INIC ENTERTAMENT LANDMARK THAT HAS SPIRED OVER ONE LN PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD WH GREAT FOOD AND ENTERTAMENT.THESTORYTHE LADIES OF ASIASFOUR STAR PERFORMERS MAKE YOU LGH, MAKE YOU BLH, MAKE YOU “WOW!”. CHOREOGRAPHED DANCE ROUT, LIP SYNC NUMBERS, LIVE SGG, EDY, AND SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE JT SOME OF THE TALENTS THE LADI OF ASIASF BRG TO THE NWAY STAGE.THIS SISTERHOOD OF DIVERSE BAY AREA PERFORMERS HAVE MASTERED THE ART OF CELEBRATG THEMSELV, AND THEY PROVI A WARM, WELG ATMOSPHERE TO CELEBRATE FABULO YOU! BE SURE TO SAMPLE OUR SIGNATURE CKTAILS THAT ARE NAMED AFTER EACH OF THE LADI! DON’T FET TO HASHTAG #ASIASF AND SHARE ON ALL YOUR FAVORE SOCIAL S!ONCE SI, YOU ARE WELE TO NTUE TO TAKE PHOTOS AND VIO OF THE SHOW, OR STRIKE A POSE WH ONE OF THE GLAMORO LADI OF ASIASF.AARON NELSONLARRY HASHBARGERSKIP YOUNGAARON JOED ASIASF SHORTLY AFTER ’S CEPTN 2000, AND BEME AN OWNERSHIP PARTNER 2010. A PREV SMALL BS OWNER, HIS PASSN FOR THE HOSPALY DTRY AND ATTENTN TO TAIL LENDS SELF PERFECTLY TO ASIASF’S UNIQUE OFFERGS OF NIGHTLIFE, DG, AND ENTERTAMENT. WHEN HE HAS SOME TIME TO GET AWAY, HE STILL ENJOYS RETURNG HOME TO HIS NATIVE CY OF CHI, CA.IN ADDN TO BEG A FOUNR AND CREATIVE FORCE BEHD ASIASF, LARRY WAS THE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PRODUCTNS FOR MACY’S WT. IN THAT ROLE, HE PRODUCED PASSPORT – AMERI’S PREMIER FASHN SHOW AND AIDS FUNDRAISER. HE ALSO FOUND CLUB ASIA – A LARGE LATE NIGHT ASIAN GAY DANCE CLUB THAT OPERATED FOR OVER 6 YEARS. HE SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMY OF FRIENDS AND WAS THE ANIZATN’S CHAIRMAN FOR TWO YEARS.SKIP WAS AN VTMENT ADVISOR FOR TEN YEARS AND FOR SEVEN YEARS VICE PRINT, CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT FOR RTC, A SUBSIDIARY OF WPP GROUP PLC – THE WORLD’S LARGT ADVERTISG NGLOMERATE. FOR FIFTEEN YEARS HE HAS BEEN PRINT OF THE CHOO-SAN GOH – H. ROBERT MAGEE FOUNDATN, AWARDG CHOREOGRAPHIC GRANTS TO DANCE PANI WORLDWI. MR. YOUNG IS ALSO AN EAGLE SUT.THE PIONEERS OF ASIASF

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The cy’s gay bars feature large, outdoor celebratns (not unlike a gay pri para) that attract people of all strip that wish to be entertaed by a group of eclectic and unique sgers and dancers. While not exclive any sense, some gay bars are signated for only certa typ of patrons (i. But the area n be harr to navigate for those who are not whe gay men.

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The Harvey Milk-era of gay rights activism is no ls important — ’s jt that the LGBTQIA+ muni are vast and nta myriad ways to exprs and reprent sexualy and genr. Growg up gay the Amerin South was not a pleasant experience, Miah Jefa says.

In the South Bay, they go to the off-the-beaten-path gay bar Renegas.

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“Jolene’s is also a spot that is workg hard to -cis-gay-man the queer nightlife scene, ” Calamia says. Tripadvisor performs checks on historic venue, the first gay bar SF that had wdows so folks uld look om the street. Tripadvisor performs checks on TSan Francis, CA354 ntributnsThe Pilsner is a tried and te sual gay bar that offers iendly service.

Perhaps the only SF rtrant to embrace outdoor dg by sellg patrons warm socks and blankets, Canela’s menu specials are also worth keepg on your radar at Halloween, Passover, C Mayo, and pretty much all holidays, along wh prix fix tied to SF Gay Men’s Chos shows and mil-theater opengs. This two-level der wh formi, red swivel chairs, and plenty of rnival glass has been a league of s own ever sce the almost-as-gay Sparky’s vanished om Church Street years ago. Walk and be greeted by a fabulo Art Nouve mural, too sweet to be lled homoerotic, of two mystil-lookg men about to smooch.

(Above: A scene om The Tool Box picted a Life magaze story lled "Homosexualy Ameri. ")We don't give gay bars the rpect they serve.

THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS

After several proment bars San Francis started shutterg -- victims of Manhunt and Grdr and time -- I started mappg a cy's worth of shuttered gay bars. Cheers, Dash (1908), 547 Pacific:San Francis may have had gay bars before the The Dash, but none were as notor. Focch's (1936), 506 Broadway:The drag show at Focch's was more of a tourist draw than an hont-to-goodns gay club, but helped brg gay culture -- and drag culture -- to the mastream spotlight.

)The Black Cat (1951), 710 Montgomery:"There's nothg wrong wh beg gay -- the crime is gettg ught! I951, after two years of police harassment, owner Sol Stouman took the police to the California Supreme Court, and argued that a bar uld not be shut down jt bee gay men ngregated there.

He prevailed, providg stenance to the growg homophile Handle Bar (1960), California and Hy:Until 1960, most gay bars were expected to pay brib to police officers for 'protectn' om raids.

A GAY GUI TO THE CASTRO

But 1960, the "gay-ola" sndal exposg such brib beme a media sensatn, and began a discsn about the rights of gays to equal protectns unr the Q (1962), Polk St. :In rponse to police harassment, San Francis bar owners formed the Tavern Guild -- the first gay bs associatn the Uned Stat -- at the Suzy-Q bar on Polk Street.

Members set up a phone-tree to warn each other of impendg raids, set up relief funds and raised money for homophile groups like the Dghters of Bilis, the Mattache Society and the Not?

:In 1964, Life magaze featured a special report lled "Homosexualy Ameri. One of the first mastream discsns of S&M, the article tablished San Francis the mds of middle Ameri (and lns of gay men) as a place of sexual diversy and tolerance. :The Stud helped cubate San Francis's gay hippie movement -- even Janis Jopl would e when she was town -- and provid an alternative to sweater queens and htlers.

Wdows were smashed, police were fought off for hours and a muny showed s strength, providg a flashpot for gay and trans anizg on the Wt Coast: In 's wake a work of social, polil and LGBT-centric medil groups Hall (1971), 482 Castro:The origal Toad Hall -- a bar of the same name recently opened a nearby space -- is often creded wh lnchg the Castro as a gay district. One of the first bars to chew a jebox favor of a DJ, Toad Hall ma the sleepy Eureka Valley a statn for gay men on the weekends, and soon bs owners and homebuyers saw the potential for a real neighborhood where gays uld live Peaks Tavern (1972), 401 Castro:Prr to Tw Peaks, gay bars were secretive affairs wh eher black-out wdows or no wdows at all. Gay Club (14).

Tied for "Bt gay and bisexual club" acrdg to "Blow good reputatns, and are spoken of wh more pri and loyalty than any siar clubs we have heard of any other Buddi popular, beg p...