San Francis’s Bt Gay Neighborhood is… the Missn?! Nuh Uh, Honey

Contents:

• TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS MISSN DISTRICT (SAN FRANCIS)GAY CLUBS & BARS MISSN DISTRICT
• GAY BARS MISSN SAN FRANCIS
• THE CASE OF AMERI’S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS
• GAY BARS MISSN BAY/DOG PATCH SAN FRANCIS
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW GAY BARS
• MOSW GAY MAP
• THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT
• THE CASE OF AMERI’S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS

TOP GAY CLUBS & BARS MISSN DISTRICT (SAN FRANCIS)GAY CLUBS & BARS MISSN DISTRICT

Breakg news: ranks San Francis's Missn send-bt gay. iendlier for gay tourists. (meang quarter ctody of Gay Beach), but I’ve got to fend the Castro.

GAY BARS MISSN SAN FRANCIS

travelers, but for anyone who wants to get the ultimate gay San Francis. naked du) paradg the streets — but to get the gay San Francis.

THE CASE OF AMERI’S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS

Where else will you fd some of the olst gay bars San Francis? Categori: Bars, Burger Jots, Dance Clubs, Dive Bars, Gay Bars, Loung, Nightlife, Rtrants, Live Mic Venu.

GAY BARS MISSN BAY/DOG PATCH SAN FRANCIS

Categori: Bars, Gay Bars, Karaoke Bars, Loung, Nightlife, Rtrants, Cocktail Bars. Categori: Bars, Dive Bars, Gay Bars, Nightlife. In ci like San Francis and New York, gay bars—once central to both a cy's gay muny and the liberatn movement self—are cle.

THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS

Herman Niev’ memory stretch back to when the epicenter of San Francis’s gay scene wasn’t the tony Castro, or the leather-and-Levi’s bars South of Market or even the htler hangouts Polk Gulch. That was the first gay bar I’d ever been , ” Niev, who is now 78 years old, rells.

Over the last ten years, giant leaps queer visibily have given way to a general cle homophobia. Yet gay bars, once central to both a cy’s gay muny and to the liberatn movement self, are cle. Scratch anyone who’s lived an Amerin gay mec long enough, and this fact be almost a melancholy pot of pri, of the I’ve-seen--all-kid variety.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

’s nightlife pal, saw two of s three gay bars shutter, a loss ma all the worse bee one was the last full-on lbian bar left the cy (the Lexgton Club), and the other a workg-class venue that tered to the dimishg Lato populatn (Esta Noche). Historilly, gay bars have been margal neighborhoods where rents were low; but what gentrifitn giveth also taketh away, as yterday’s periphery be today’s unaffordable hotspot. It’s not enough, however, to note that gay bars are disappearg.

MOSW GAY BARS

And further, are gay spac even necsary anymore? If you ask 100 random heterosexual New Yorkers to name a gay bar, many of them would probably say “Stonewall.

MOSW GAY MAP

” But the once Mob-owned bar on Christopher Street that lnched the LGBT Liberatn Movement is hardly the lifeblood of Gay New York today (and arguably never really was). In fact, the epicenter of the gay scene has long sce migrated far beyond s origs the Wt Village. Daniel Erickson, a barback at one of North Brooklyn’s olst extant gay bars, the 12-year-old Metropolan Williamsburg, has observed the scene change om unr him even jt the past few years.

THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT

“The bars ed to be the unrground scene, but that changed, and gay bars beme ol for everyone to hang out , and people’s expectatn of a bar has shifted towards specialty cktails, ” he says. Consequently, Ameri’s well-known “gay-borhoods”—the Castro, Hell’s Kchen, Wt Hollywood, DuPont Circle and Boystown, to name a few—are changg, too. Even the Castro, once the polil base of Harvey Milk, and still home to bakery lled Hot Cookie and a sgle-screen movie palace that ns a sg-along Sound of Mic every year, has taken on some trappgs of an airbshed, tourist-iendly gay herage district, rather than a livg, breathg gay neighborhood.

Above ground, many ci are experiencg the rise of what might be termed the “post-gay bar”—plac wh mpy dér, strong pours and mixed crowds. But to some, spac “for everyone” reprent the end of the sanctuari that a more overtly separatist gay culture built the 1970s and ’80s; to others ’s jt the next logil evolutn a cy where gay people have been assiated to mastream nightlife culture.

In the se of San Francis, over the last half-century the cy’s gay bars have gone om visible and forbidn to public and numero—and, ultimately, may be fallg victim to their own succs.

THE CASE OF AMERI’S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS

But that tty-soundg nickname— was the first gay bar San Francis to have plate-glass wdows that let passersby see who’s si, and the patrons skew silver—is one the regulars willgly share. ) Whether ’s Cole Porter standards, a jazz night, or a te sg-along, this curtaed, Art De-accented bar is where tried-and-te Friends of Dorothy n be spac have been vanishg for a long time, but few subspeci are rarer than the neighborhood gay bar.