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- THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC
- THE STUD, SF’S OLST GAY BAR, TO PERMANENTLY CLOSE LOTN AFTER DES SOMA
THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC
San Francis's olst gay bar, The Stud, announced Wednday is closg s doors due to lack of revenue as a rult of the ronavis panmic.
It was a splendid, ftg farewell for the Stud, San Francis’s inic gay bar: a virtual 12-hour drag show that swung om ftival to funeral and back aga. Esta Noche, a Latx nightclub on 16th Street that opened rponse to the discrimatn agast queer people of lor tradnally whe gay bars, shuttered 2014, replaced by a craft-cktail bar.
Gay bars, once found every nook of the cy, have been all but relegated to the Castro and SoMa neighborhoods.
THE STUD, SF’S OLST GAY BAR, TO PERMANENTLY CLOSE LOTN AFTER DES SOMA
But losg the Stud is more than losg another gay bar.
“The first crew who ran were gay artists volved wh the whole psychelic ’60s thg — the Human Be-In, the Summer of Love. The neighborhood, once nsired the Castro’s betifully damaged stepsister, was where you went to get away om the former’s more buttoned-up — and sometim racist — atmosphere, to pe venu that tered to rich whe gay men, like the short-lived, Peter Thiel-fund Yass social club.
”The Stud opened 1966 when the SoMa LGBT scene was boomg as gay men om around the untry started g out and g to San Francis. As a transwoman she faced down the misogyny of the early gay muny, to bee one of the most succsful nightlife entreprenrs the cy. At the time, women, genr non-nformg people, and drag queens weren’t allowed most SoMa gay bars, but the Stud set self apart om the begng by beg open to everyone.