10 Castro Plac That Used to be Gay Bars – SF Gay History

Contents:

• TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO (SAN FRANCIS)GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO
• THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT
• SF GAY HISTORY
• CASTRO DISTRICT, SAN FRANCIS GUI AND VOICE OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY!
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MOSW GAY MAP

TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO (SAN FRANCIS)GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO

San Francis has bee synonymo wh gay culture. The Castro, which has been the cy's center of LGBTQ activism and culture, the heart of the gay muny arguably one of the Francis has bee synonymo wh gay culture. The Castro, which has been the cy's center of LGBTQ activism and culture, the heart of the gay muny arguably one of the iendlit ci the USA, is an unual, yet unmissable experience.

At the entry to this gay area fli a huge rabow flag on Harvey Milk Plaza. As you will walk through the neighborhood, you will notice bronze siwalk plaqu: this walk of fame lled the Rabow Honor Walk honors Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer dividuals who have ma a signifint difference to society.

Walkg around the Castro, you'll enunter many lorful characters, and get a real feel for the special ambiance San Francis's gay area offers. Beg San Francis's gay district, The Castro is full of exclively gay shops, such as Do Your Mother Know (4141 18th Street), and lots of queer clothg stor.

THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT

Once you’ve regaed your strength, make way to some of the bt gay bars and clubs San Francis, where there's somethg for everyone.

Fally, make your way to Dolor Park, where gays, hippi, and tourists enjoy the breathtakg view of San Francis.

SF GAY HISTORY

San Francis’s Castro District is currently home to 20 gay bars – more or ls, pendg how you fe the parameters of the Castro, or even how you fe “bar, ” much ls “gay bar. But at the peak of the Castro’s glory gay days, there were even more.

Here are ten lotns the Castro (om Castro Street down Market to Church Street) that ed to be gay bars but aren’t even bars any longer. The spot briefly beme a gay bar lled Cy Dump 1973 before aga beg the Midnight Sun om 1974 to 1981. In 1981, the same year that MTV premiered, they took over an old plumbg warehoe around the rner at 4067 18th Street, where beme the cy’s (and perhaps the natn’s) first gay vio bar.

In 1971, a street-level bar at 482 Castro beme Toad Hall, a bar for gay hippi that played mic wh refully prepared mixed tap at a time when most bars still ed jebox. The owners origally wanted to ll the Iron Nun, but the landlord, though willg to rent to gays, was a vout Catholic who didn’t want a blasphemo name. In the 1950s, a straight bar at 469 Castro Street — Club Unique — proudly lled self “the gayt spot town!

CASTRO DISTRICT, SAN FRANCIS GUI AND VOICE OF THE GAY AND LBIAN MUNY!

” Years later, fally did bee a gay bar when beme the aptly-named Nothg Special 1972.

That changed to the Special 1985, and then the ary-themed gay bar Headquarters 1991. In the mid-1990s, a bar on the rner of Sanchez and 16th named Dicks – a straight bar, believe or not – went gay and changed their name to the Jackhammer. Some might argue shouldn’t be clud as a gay “bar” sce they didn’t serve alhol, but most guibooks then and now listed as such.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

When the Shed moved to 3520 16th Street, the lotn served as the “No on 6” mpaign headquarters to fight the Brigg’s Iniative that would have mandated firg gay teachers.

MOSW GAY MAP

It’s been a rtrant for s, but om 1972 to 1977, 2223 Market Street was a gay piano bar lled the Purple Pickle.