The Case of Ameri's Disappearg Gay Bars - PUNCH

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

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THE CASE OF AMERI’S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS

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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. 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.

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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. ’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).

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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. 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.

” 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.

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“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.

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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.

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.

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) 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. A gay sports bar was practilly a ntradictn terms when Hi Tops opened the Castro nearly a ago, but no one should doubt the near-universal appeal of rn dogs and a pork-chop-on-a-stick.

If you’ve hung out the Castro long enough, your jar has probably accumulated more than a few drk tokens om here, a gay bar?

Well, ’s neher and both: a majory Irish-owned, majory LGBTQ-owned venue named for a gay Irish humanarian. Sectn at a mic ftival, and a queer-iendly ambiance all nspire to make this Missn spot among the most hospable bars the Street has all but been annexed to the Mara, but once upon a time, there was a htler-filled gayborhood lled Polk Gulch—of which the Cch is the sole survivor.

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A rpeted dive narrow enough that you n touch the bar wh one hand and the oppose wall wh the other, ’s home to the Hot Boxxx Girls, a troupe of olr drag performers who, as well as the Tubteak Connectn, DJ B Statn John’s re-created dis and SF’s longt-nng gay party.

THE CASE OF AMERI’S DISAPPEARG GAY BARS

Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels).Wrten March 31, 2015This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Gay Bars.

Tripadvisor performs checks on historic venue, the first gay bar SF that had wdows so folks uld look om the street. Tripadvisor performs checks on TSan Francis, CA354 ntributnsThe Pilsner is a tried and te sual gay bar that offers iendly service. Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.