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Contents:

• GAY NIGHTLIFE SAN DIEGO: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• THE 5 BEST SAN DIEGO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN DIEGO
• GAY SAN DIEGO TRAVEL GUI
• A GAY GUI TO SAN DIEGO
• SAN DIEGO GAY BARS
• GAY SAN DIEGO · HOTELS
• MOVG TO LGBT SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• SAN DIEGO GAY SNAS
• SAN DIEGO GAY MAP
• SAN DIEGO GAY GUI AND PHOTO GALLERY - HILLCRT GAY GUI
• SAN DIEGO GAY DANCE CLUBS

GAY NIGHTLIFE SAN DIEGO: BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

At the wtern end is Urban MO's Bar & Grill, a "hetero-iendly gay bar" and lol favore.

Consired the world's first and only gay-owned brewery, 's a great spot to grab a pizza or two and make iends at a munal table, while enjoyg the many beers on tap. Wh ep red walls and chanliers, SRO Lounge is a legendary gay bar that livers a glam but laid-back vibe. The San Diego gay nightlife scene manag that rare balance between beg remarkably iendly and also rife wh betiful people—'s pretty much a reflectn of this sunny Southern California cy.

THE 5 BEST SAN DIEGO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN DIEGO

Gay bars have also been pretty stable here over the years, wh the most popular hangouts gog strong for a uple of s.

Most gay bars are the trendy Hillcrt neighborhood, jt northeast of Balboa Park and a short drive or b ri om downtown. Flicks: Along a strip of gay-oriented bs, Flicks gay vio bar has long been a hub of schmoozg and socializg. Martis Above Fourth: San Diego's favore gay baret, Martis featur some tremendoly talented performers—not jt piano and sgg, but edy, magic, and more.

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Number One Fifth Avenue: A great all-around neighborhood gay bar, balanc an timate ambiance and iendly atmosphere whout the tired, divey feel that sometim domat smaller loung.

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Park & Rec: Set the space formerly occupied by the popular gay bar Bourbon Street, this is an expansive nightspot and rtrant that still draws plenty of LGBT folks and open-md revelers.

SRO Lounge: Known for s great jebox, long history the neighborhood, and a lotn that's much closer to downtown than the gay bars Hillcrt, the SRO has a strong followg among drag queens and their fans, but all kds tend to drop by here, albe not necsarily large numbers. As a largely gay-iendly cy, San Diego has a good offerg of general mixed night clubs.

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Borr at the southern end of metro San Diego, the sprawlg cy of Tijuana, you'll fd several gay bars one.

Rich's: As San Diego's five gay warehoe-style dis, this club offers a good-sized space wh an dtrial, circu-style vibe, and mic supplied by some of Southern California's most illtr DJs. The Brass Rail: The longt-nng gay bar San Diego, the Brass Rail serv cred for always fdg new ways to revent self for the current tim.

Overall, San Diego is a welg and open-md cy, but you'll fd the heart of the cy's gay nightlife scene Hillcrt specifilly.

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9 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissWhat travelers are saygDoug MCalgary, Canada579 ntributnsWish we had found Mo’s earlier our trip. San Diego was home to same-sex upl as far back as the 19th century, but wasn’t until around World War II that gays and lbians started to e out of the shadows and fd plac to ll home.

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Durg World War II, the cy’s gay bars were maly downtown, where they tered to sailors. But thgs changed dramatilly the 1970s as Hillcrt attracted LGBTQ people who sought cheap hog and were willg to fix up Victorian hom, a classic se of “gaytrifitn. ” The Brass Rail, meanwhile, led the vanguard of gay and lbian bars flockg to the “gayborhood” and nearby neighborhoods — North Park, Banker’s Hill, and Universy Heights.

“Gayborhoods allow gays and lbians to fd one another for iendship and fellowship, sex, datg, and love, spe the ascendance of datg apps, ” said Am Ghaziani, thor of the book “There Go the Gayborhood?, ” a 2017 terview.

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There has been a lot of talk about the cle of the classic “gayborhood” the Uned Stat. A Voice of San Diego analysis of 2010 cens data found that lol gay male upl were still highly ncentrated Hillcrt and nearby neighborhoods. Gay bars are fairly rare the days: Only about a dozen are still open the cy of San Diego.

But our regn was home to many dozens of gay bars over the eight s sce World War II, acrdg to the 2018 KPBS documentary “San Diego’s Gay Bar History.

In 1957, a straight man named Lou Arko bought the bar, then hoed the later-molished Orphm Theater downtown, and weled a gay clientele at night after bspeople went home.

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Organizers of the Gay Center for Social Servic gather at s Goln Hill headquarters 1973. In 1972, a classified ad a newspaper announced that an anizatn lled the Gay Center for Social Servic “needs a home. Includg the word “gay” the name of an anizatn was a bold move 51 years ago.

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But 11 men and four men om the lol chapter of the Gay Liberatn Front were on a missn: They wanted to open one of the natn’s first lbian-and-gay muny centers. But the “F Loop” is an important part of lol LGBTQ history bee was an important part of many lol gay men’s liv, pecially the years before onle personal ads and datg apps offered alternativ to bars. Many gay men didn’t know where else to go bee they were aaid to be seen at gay bars, pecially if they were married or the Navy, said Walt Meyer, a historian of San Diego’s LGBTQ past.

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The gayborhood is North and Wt of Balboa Park and home to some of San Diego's bt food optns.

Beg the send-largt cy California means Gay San Diego is no stranger to diversy, and gays here are weled wh open arms. They tend to ncentrate the gayborhood of Hillcrt, where there are proment bars and rtrants that gays equently attend.

There are several gay bars outsi of Hillcrt even, wh The Hole Pot Loma and Bourbon Street Pub and Grill beg notable.