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Throb Nightclub and the gay-iendly venu are loted the area on and around Mchell, Smh and Knucky Streets downtown Darw Cy, the cy's bit mercial strip. Emen8 "Atralia's biggt and bolst onle sexual health and wellbeg iative for gay men, bisexual men and men who have sex wh men! The Cavenagh -aka "The Cav" (12 Cavenagh St), gay-popular rtrant, fe, bar and bottlhop; breakfast, lunch and dner, snacks, w.

The Gay Men's Pri group gathers here for Thursday Drks at 5pm and for bnch at 10:30am on first Sundays of the month. Deck Bar (22 Mchell St), rtrant and bar, cktails, 80+ beers, bnch, large outdoor pat space/ beer garn, Asian-style tapas, lunch/dner; mixed gay-iendly crowd, open day and night every day.

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The Beats, pecially around Gsberg, laid the foundatn for later synergi created by gay poets. After the Send World War, San Francis slowly beme home to both a gay bar subculture and a homophile activist movement, which mostly operated isolatn om each other. There was a burgeong Beat culture North Beach, two homosexual bar payola sndals volvg the police partment and the mayor, and an vasive police crackdown agast gay bars that lasted three years.

The San Francis Beats and the gays had a symbtic relatnship. " One uld say the same about the unrground culture of gay leathermen that was about to emerge. Homosexualy was part of the North Beach scene.

Many of the Beats were homosexual, cludg Gsberg, Jack Spicer, Robert Dunn, and Rob Blaser. Gsberg slashed through gay stereotyp of gay male sexualy wh Howl's celebratn of joyo and even holy sexual unn. He served as a bridge between the tolerant lerary world and the emergg gay polil scene.

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Both Beats and gays challenged the nformist prsur of the .

Thanks to the Beats, gays uld now view themselv as nonnformists rather than mentally ill rebels wh a e. North Beach was home to gay and lbian bars, cludg the Black Cat, an area stutn, as well as gay cisg areas, wh all spreadg down to Polk Street and to the Tenrlo. Gsberg scribed as "the greatt gay bar Ameri.

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" The bar's owner, Sol Stoumen, was unwillg to make the payoffs expected that era of proprietors whose clientele clud homosexuals. Th began the nnectn between gay bars and gay polics. He even beme the first out gay person to n for supervisor San Francis.

His 5, 600 vot forhadowed the powerful polil nstuency that gays and lbians would bee. The happengs at the Black Cat eventually led to the formatn of the Tavern Guild, a aln of gay bars, 1962. The Guild retaed a lawyer and bail bondsman for anyone arrted or near a gay bar, and published a brochure on how to al wh beg arrted or harassed by policemen.

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The rise of the Guild gave polil legimacy to gay bars, fendg their right to be ee om arbrary harassment.

Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels).

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