The Stud, Olst Gay Bar San Francis, Shut Its Doors

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• THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC
• THE STUD (PERMANENTLY CLOSED)SAN FRANCISMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASLBIAN BARS & CLUBSON TODAYTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPTHE STUD (PERMANENTLY CLOSED)
• THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS’S OLST GAY BAR, ANNOUNC TEMPORARY SHUTDOWN
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• 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. 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 STUD (PERMANENTLY CLOSED)SAN FRANCISMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASLBIAN BARS & CLUBSON TODAYTOURSCY GUIGAY MAPTHE STUD (PERMANENTLY CLOSED)

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. Featur:BarBurlqueKaraokeLive micMicRate The STUD (Permanently Closed)4Audience RatgBased on 1 votReportComments / Reviews are the subjective opn of Travel Gay ers, not of Travel Gay. San Francis's olst gay bar announced on Tuday is closg s doors for good.

"RELATED | Co-op Bands Together to Save Beloved San Francis Gay Nightclub. The Stud, the olst gay bar San Francis, has announced that will shut down s physil lotn of 33 years. ”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. ”For a small gay bar, the Stud had an outsized prence the San Francis mic scene.

THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS’S OLST GAY BAR, ANNOUNC TEMPORARY SHUTDOWN

“Ask any lol, gay or straight, and they’ve got a story that starts wh, ‘one time at the Stud.

It was the women that had been exclud om so many other gay bars the neighborhood that saved the Stud.

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The queer woman of the Stud not only took re of their dyg gay brothers, they also took over nng the bar; throwg parti and raisg money for the LGBT muny. “When I me to San Francis 1997 as a young gay man, the Stud was one of the first plac I went out, ” said Senator Stt Wiener.

When the venue opened 1966 was one of dozens of gay bars the neighborhood that would later be known as the Leather District. At the time, women, genr non-nformg people, and drag queens weren’t allowed most of the Leather District’s gay bars.

THE STUD, SF’S OLST GAY BAR, TO PERMANENTLY CLOSE LOTN AFTER DES SOMA