Shas of the rabow: East Bay gay bars evolve, stay relevant wh the queer muny

Contents:

• THE BEST OAKLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS OAKLAND
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• OAKLAND'S NEWEST GAY & NIGHTLIFE DESTINATION
• THE BEST OAKLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS OAKLAND
• SHAS OF THE RABOW: EAST BAY GAY BARS EVOLVE, STAY RELEVANT WH THE QUEER MUNY
•  MICHIGAN LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

THE BEST OAKLAND GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS OAKLAND

This is also the first time Huynh will own a bar, but a ago he was a bartenr at some of the most proment gay bars San Francis, mostly the Castro district.

When he took stock thgs, Huynh said, “I realized that the bt tim my life were the Castro, beg myself, beg gay and ee. “I would love to make a quote unquote Castro of Oakland, ” he said, “where people flow om bar to bar all night, a real gay scene right here Oakland. Started by a judge and attorney, Club BNB has been around for 35 years and is the largt gay and lbian nightclub the Bay Area.

Thought to be the olst gay bar the untry— ti wh New Orleans’ bar Cafe Lafte, whose earlit rerds date to 1933, when prohibn end—the Whe Horse is a iendly neighborhood bar wh a diverse clientele and no-ills atmosphere. Oakland Gay bars and clubs by distance.

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Oakland gay bars and clubs are mapped the gayborhood wh an overview, tags, ntact tails, webse, social media lks, trans/walkg directns, and drivg directns. “He’s such a sweet guy, and I knew he’d wanted to do somethg for the Lat gay muny, ” Senghor said.

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OAKLAND'S NEWEST GAY & NIGHTLIFE DESTINATIONBased the heart of Old Town Oakland, The Summer Bar & Lounge is Oakland’s newt gay & nightlife statn. “I would love to make a quote-unquote Castro of Oakland, where people flow om bar to bar all night, a real gay scene right here Oakland, ” Huynh told Oaklandsi. For years, he was a bartenr at proment gay bars the Castro and says, “I realized that the bt tim my life were the Castro, beg myself, beg gay and ee.

The Whe Horse Bar Oakland claims to be the olst ntuoly operatg gay and lbian bar the Uned Stat.

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A 45-year-old self-intified gay man, Murphy has been g to the Whe Horse for 17 years and workg there, as need, for 16. He the word “fay” a lot his scriptns of the Whe Horse, the putative “olst ntuoly operatg gay and lbian bar the Uned Stat.

The turng pot Stonewall reprents is not when gay Ameri got angry, ’s when straight Ameri started to pay attentn. Gay bars have long been at the center of the movement for equaly.

Photo: Cirs WoodMurphy scrib the Whe Horse generally, and gay bars specifilly nearly spirual terms.

SHAS OF THE RABOW: EAST BAY GAY BARS EVOLVE, STAY RELEVANT WH THE QUEER MUNY

”Like Murphy, generatns of Amerins have gone to gay bars to fd and make their own fai.

Yet gay bars are closg. ’ Photo urty of The Port BarBut the biggt sgle factor drivg gay bars out of bs is the broar trend of natnal acceptance.

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Gay bars have bee a sualty of progrs.

”“Dpe the advanc that we have ma terms of our rights, so many people, even around here, grew up hom that were evangelil, or acceptg of other people beg gay but not their kid, ” he said. Whereas lbians, gays, bisexuals and even trans dividuals of prev generatns hewed largely to genr norms and sexual orthodoxy, younger generatns are ls likely to choose and stick to an early and dividual letter of LGBTQ, and more likely to reach directly for Q, embracg a sort of “etcetera” or “y, and” inty that allows for multiple and more flexible exprsns of self. In the tradnal sense, gay bars may be closg, but the world is also gettg more queer.

The more accurate statement is fively gay bars are closg. Sullivan not that though the gay rights movement was started by queer, trans people of lor, s primary beneficiari — and most equently picted victims — have been cisgenred whe men. Though historians dispute who actually threw the first brick, unlike the fictnal Danny Wters, Johnson was actually Uribe, general manager of Club 21 and Club BNB, two gay nightclubs Oakland.