Harvey’s, gay bar at the heart of S.F.’s Castro district, clos

Contents:

• GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• SAN FRANCIS CASTRO GAY BAR AND RTRANT HARVEY'S CLOS AFTER 27 YEARS
• HARVEY’S, GAY BAR AT THE HEART OF S.F.’S CASTRO DISTRICT, CLOS
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

Photograph: Saroyan HumphreyKev VannBergh (left) and Harry BrexFrom biker bars to piano loung, the gay bars San Francis and Oakland are the most fabulo the Bay Area.

San Francis’s LGBTQIA+ scene is major, partly owed to s history (the cy was home to the untry's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk), and staed by s thrivg queer muny. Here are the bt gay bars San Francis and Oakland right now.

For more about how we curate, see our edorial guil.Bt gay bars San Francis1. Opened a former gay bathhoe 2015 by San Francis drag legends Hekla and D’Arcy Drollger, the 8,000-foot space alive each weekend wh a myriad of amazg performanc, cludg ever-popular terpretatns of classic TV shows like Sex and the Cy, The Goln Girls and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The CchOne of the few San Francis gay bars outsi the Castro or SoMa neighborhoods, the Cch is equal parts dive bar and dance club.

SAN FRANCIS CASTRO GAY BAR AND RTRANT HARVEY'S CLOS AFTER 27 YEARS

Live mic on Thursday nights is a nice unterpot to the often wild and unexpected Friday and Saturday night parti that feature everythg om lube wrtlg to gaymer nights.8. Insi n be slow on weekdays but wend your way to the rear, past the pool table, past the DJ booths and bathrooms, down the hallway led wh s of gay memorabilia, to fd the crowd chompg cigars and sharg cigarett on the outdoor pat. On Tudays and Thursdays, DJs sp power-pop, glam-rock, and retro “homo bar” classics.10.

HARVEY’S, GAY BAR AT THE HEART OF S.F.’S CASTRO DISTRICT, CLOS

Tw Peaks TavernJt beyond the shadow of the giant rabow flag and a few doors down om the famed Castro Theater is San Francis's first gay bar, Tw Peak's Tavern. Whe HorseThe Whe Horse, which opened the 1930s at a time when was dangero for the LGBTQ muny to ngregate a space of their own, is the olst ntuoly operated gay bar the Uned Stat.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

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. 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. 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.