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- SAN JOSE (DOWNTOWN) GAY BARS
- CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
- SAN JOSE GAY BARS
- THE BEST SAN JOSE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN JOSE
- TOP 5 FIERCT GAY BARS IN THE BAY AREA
- BOY NIGHTS.. NEW GAY CLUB/BAR SAN JOSE L CABO - SAN JOSE L CABO FOM
- THE CENTRAL COAST HAS A THRIVG LGBTQ MUNY, SO WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY BARS?
- THE RIDICULOLY DETAILED GAY COSTA RI TRAVEL GUI
- BEHOLD: A MAP OF SAN FRANCIS'S LOST GAY BARS
- GAY MEXI TRAVEL GUI
SAN JOSE (DOWNTOWN) GAY BARS
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Touted as the olst gay bar San Jose, Mac's Club is a small but iendly environment wh lovely pat seatg the back to enjoy on any warm California night.
San Jose (Downtown), Gay BarsSplash65 Post St, San Jose, CA 95113 (Map)Two dance floors, a throbbg csh of bodi, sputterg laser lights, neon drks and a ton of TV monors make a weekend vis to Splash… +1 408. Splash is one of the area's most popular gay nightclubs and a hub for the gay muny.
San Jose, Gay BarsRenegas501 W Taylor St, San Jose, CA 95110 (Map)Where Splash bleeds sequs and Tokyo Teas, Renegas urs wh leather, Levi’s and hairy chts. Ls a club and more of a laid-back neighborhood dive, Mac’s is one of the longt-nng gay bars the South Bay. Cheap drks and a mellow atmosphere lure a clutch of weekday regulars, gay and straight.
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Splash is one of the area's most popular gay nightclubs and a hub for the gay muny. The club is well known for s popular events that draw people out no matter what their liftyle. Events like the Downtown Diva Drag Show always attract a large crowd. The club self is iendly and there's always an upbeat vibe. Bartenrs are attentive and the drks are great. Wh plenty of dancg and karaoke, this club livers a good time each time you vis. Stop for a drk, and you'll unrstand why so many people love hangg out at Splash. * gay bars in san jose *
The mystery is how the largt cy the Bay Area and the third largt cy California wound up wh so few gay bars.
There have been bars that tered to gays and lbians San Jose sce at least 1947.
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In an article for the San Francis Gay & Lbian Historil Society Newsletter of June 1987, Eric Garber scrib as "a seedy skid row bar" which was a home for wos and down and outers as well as gays.
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The Midway Café (448 Wt Santa Clara) opened 1955 and was perhaps the clost thg to a morn gay bar San Jose. The rerd of the se (supplied to me by the ABC) said the bar, "had bee a meetg place for homosexuals of both sex; not only a meetg place, but a place of monstratn for this type of viatn om the normal sexual pattern.
In the 1960s the Crystal Café (42 Wt San Fernando) beme a gay bar about 1963. The proximy to San Jose State Universy gave many young stunts their first experience a gay bar. In the lumn "Really Ra" Lambda News om 1977, the thor says the Crystal Café was mixed durg the day and gay at night, and that both lbians and gay men were wele and beme good iends ("fay, " as the thor puts ).
1963 was also the year that Mac's (then at 349 South First Street), the olst existg gay bar San Jose, is first listed the Cy Directory for San Jose.
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From 1963 on San Jose had at least three gay bars. From the 1970s onward, be much easier to track San Jose LGBT history bee of the advent of gay newsletters and newspapers. Asi om the bars, the newsletter provis a startlg picture of how advanced gay life was early on.
19, 1971 edn, there is an announcement of the first gay marriage at the MCC (not regnized by the state, of urse) between Jeff and David (no last nam were given). The San Jose Cy Council approved and then rcd a rolutn approvg a Gay Rights Week unr prsure om Christian fundamentalists.
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The actn ed Johnie Staggs and Sal Acrdi to announce their wre- ndidacy for Cy Council, makg them the first lbian and gay man to publicly n for office San Jose.
Gay rights lost overwhelmgly wh 70. Harassment of gay bars by police ntued through the 1980s.
At the peak of the gay village ( 1987) San Jose had 14 gay bars.
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As a teen, Rory Uribe fantasized about gog to a gay bar or club and fally beg able to be unabashedly gay public. Uribe,... * gay bars in san jose *
So what led to the mise of the "gayborhood"? In a 2002 SJSU Master's This, Gay Bars of Silin Valley: A Study the Decle of a Social Instutn, William M.
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(408) 275-9902 Bar is the south bay gay bar at which to chill out and enjoy a relaxg time wh iends.
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Jt an FYI to any gay travelers stayg or willg to drive to San Jose l Cabo om Cabo San Lus or anywhere Los Cabos. As a teen, Rory Uribe fantasized about gog to a gay bar or club and fally beg able to be unabashedly gay public.
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Click to enlarge Photo Courty Of Matthew Lalanne GAY CLUB ALCHEMISTS Daniel Gomez (left) and Frank Domguez (right) are known for turng typil bars to hugely succsful, LGBTQ-clive parti. So Uribe always thought the gay bars Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo unti would provi that much-need and missg support system and work.
"I've dreamed of gog to a gay bar sce I was like, 16, " Uribe told New Tim.
The lack of LGBTQ-specific nightlife on the Central Coast is an issue much of the lol gay and trans muny is forced to work around. Santa Barbara's once thrivg gay club scene dwdled, and eventually pletely disappeared, as varyg sexual orientatns and genr inti beme more wily accepted and datg apps beme more readily available. But 's left the Central Coast whout a gay bar reach—the neart (acrdg to mor and Google) are Ventura, Frno, and San Jose—and many lols say the safety gay bars and clubs provi is still very much need, pecially the more nservative portns of the state.
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Uribe, who is now a stunt at Allan Hanck College, fally ma their gay bar dream e te this sprg while visg a iend San Francis. Like so many other LGBTQ rints the area and across the natn, Uribe helped start an anizatn dited to givg gay, trans, and queer dividuals a safe space to meet up and build support systems.
Uribe and other Hanck stunts revalized the school's long idle Queers and Alli Club last year, and the group regularly hosts meetgs, ffee meetups, and parti, which Uribe dubbed "gay bash. He wanted to spice thgs up by startg a group that would make easier for lol LGBTQ dividuals to meet, and was mullg over the ia one day when he walked to the now closed Metro Brewg Company San Luis Obispo and jt happened to spot two gay upl si. "And I was like, 'Oh my god, is this a gay bar?
One bar owner told SLOQueerdos that he didn't want his tablishment to be known as a gay bar, Domguez said. Still, Domguez and his partner— bs and life—Daniel Gomez, who also -owns SLOQueerdos, agree that openg a gay bar on the Central Coast would be challengg.