Directory of Gay Bars Tenrlo San Francis
Contents:
- THE LAST GAY BAR THE TENRLO MIGHT CLOSE FOR GOOD THIS SUMMER
- BEFORE THE CASTRO, POLK GULCH WAS SAN FRANCIS'S GAYBORHOOD
- GAY BARS TENRLO SAN FRANCIS
- SAN FRANCIS'S TECH BROS TOLD: QU CHANGG THE GAYBORHOOD
THE LAST GAY BAR THE TENRLO MIGHT CLOSE FOR GOOD THIS SUMMER
Before the Castro beme the gay mec for the entire Uned Stat, Polk Gulch, centered around Polk Street, was the hub for the LGBT , gay bars quietly existed other parts of the cy— the Tenrlo and North Beach—but Polk Gulch was the first neighborhood where gay-owned dayti... * tenderloin gay bar *
Origally found 1987, when was jt one of many LGBTQ stops the cy’s btlg nightlife scene, ’s now the last gay bar the neighborhood, known for old-school drag shows and dis parti wh cked-out participants well to their 70s. SF’s Olst Gay Bar, The Gangway, Has Closed.
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BEFORE THE CASTRO, POLK GULCH WAS SAN FRANCIS'S GAYBORHOOD
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When Cleve Jon, a longtime gay activist who led the creatn of the Aids Memorial Quilt, went to his lol gay bar the Castro district, he saw somethg that shocked him.
“I’m not heterophobic, but I don’t want to go to a gay bar and buy some guy a drk and have him smirk and tell me he’s straight. ”Rints of San Francis’s historilly gay Castro district are worried that ’s changg, as speculators e to flip the few remag ramshackle old Victorians and the old-timer gay bars shutter. In a recent small survey, 77% of people who have lived the neighborhood for 10 or more years intified as gay, while only 55% of those who moved the past year an inic buildg was on the market earlier this year, was between two potential tenants: a gay strip club and a SoulCycle.
This wter, The Gangway, the olst gay bar town, is closg down. ”Let’s be clear: San Francis is still extremely gay, wh 6. 2% of the populatn intifyg as LGBT, acrdg to a recent Gallup poll that puts the Bay Area as the gayt regn Ameri.
GAY BARS TENRLO SAN FRANCIS
Portland follows wh their gay populatn at 5. 4% of the the gay muny is changg – and tradnal LGBT stutns are rapidly disappearg. “The neighborhood is more profsnal gay now.
Not that ’s ls gay, but you gotta have money to move , ” said Hank Cancél, who liv on the rner of 19th and Castro streets, where he keeps a llectn of gay erotic dolls the wdow. “So now ’s Apple gay. Airbnb gay.
SAN FRANCIS'S TECH BROS TOLD: QU CHANGG THE GAYBORHOOD
”The “faeri” – which Cancél f as those the artistic, eccentric gay culture, the sort who found the Castro as a gayborhood the 1970s – are now more rare. ”At the Castro district Vanguard office, real tate agent Steve Huang said he fds the gay people movg to town don’t necsarily want to live any specific neighborhood anymore but prrize beg close to work or Bart. Also, as gay people have tegrated further to mastream culture, ’s gotten harr to tell who’s gay the first place.
“So you’re dog this story about gay culture disappearg, and you might want to take a picture of a mother phg her stroller outsi a porn store, but that mother might be gay or she might be phg for two dads. ”He wonrs if gay people need to live a ncentrated neighborhood at all and says ’s not a major factor for most of his queer homebuyers. Not gays.
Photograph: Stephen McLaren/The GuardianOthers worry, though, that as the gay muny be ls ncentrated or visible, those who do stand out will feel ls Sueyoshi, 45, associate an of the College of Ethnic Studi at San Francis State Universy, says she now feels ls safe as a genrqueer person walkg around San Francis and fac more street harassment. ’”On a recent Thursday night at Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, one of the only remag drag bars the Tenrlo, the crowd clud a mix of longtime gay patrons and younger straight people – some of whom work the neighborhood. Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole--the-wall bar sce 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds recent of the reason that so many gay bars have closed or turned straight, he said, is that LGBT people have bee creasgly fortable spendg time at mastream bars.