Barbra Streisand's sgg but was at The Ln, a gay bar Greenwich Village, New York, 1960. Barbra Archiv has photos and rmatn about Streisand's nightclub sgg but.
Contents:
- FORMER GAY BAR BUILDG TURNED SGLE-FAY HOME ASKS $5.9 LN
- BARCHIVE :: THE LN PUB AND OTHER LOST GAY DENS
- SF GAY HISTORY
FORMER GAY BAR BUILDG TURNED SGLE-FAY HOME ASKS $5.9 LN
* the lion gay bar *
”She lnched to the send number she'd rehearsed (“When Sunny Gets Blue”) and, as told by Barry Dennen, she walked through the crowd wh the won the $50 prize, and was ved back the next week to pete aga agast gay edian Mal Jam (née Michael Greer) and eccentric sger Ty Tim.
BARCHIVE :: THE LN PUB AND OTHER LOST GAY DENS
An inic fern bar on Divisaro, which for about 30 years was a neighborhood gay bar before beg more of a straight-people hang the last , has closed followg the ath of s longtime owner. Its heyday as a gay fern bar the early 1970's, after openg around 1968, gave way to perds of both more preppy, and more leather-y clientele, as Ellis told the Bay Area Reporter back 1989. The Ln Pub was not alone this neighborhood as a gay bar, bee the Alamo Square and Upper Fillmore areas long had a gay enclave all their own and a no of homo hangouts anchored by this and the nearby Alta Plaza (2301 Fillmore), which changed hands 1999 and soon turned to a noodle bar, and now an Indian rtrant.
Last year the BAR spoke to a uple of longtime gay rints who equented both bars, as well as JJ's Piano Bar, which opened 1987.
But most of the bars' longtime clientele would not live to see the new lennium, and by around 2005 The Ln Pub was pretty much domated by young straight people, spe still beg gay-owned.
SF GAY HISTORY
As has been talked about a lot the last several years, neighborhood gay bars all over the cy, outsi the Castro and SoMa, have died off for a variety of reasons both bee of real tate prsur, dwdlg crowds, and the rise of cellphone apps that negate the need for neighborhood bars as pickup spots.
Related: The Bt Gay Bars In San Francis For Every Ocsn. The Ln Pub and other lost gay ns [Bay Area Reporter].
Visors to Pacific Heights uld be exced the days for thkg there is ltle gay about , save for the gay lors on Victorians like the Pated Ladi Alamo Square. From the 1970s through the middle of last , there were three waterg hol and one hotel wh a saloon that were specifilly geared toward gay patrons. The saloon was hoed Hotel Casa Loma (610 Fillmore), which for a time advertised self as a gay hotel the Bay Area Reporter.