THE 5 BEST Mosw Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023) - Tripadvisor

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.

THE CASTRO, SAN FRANCIS GAY DISTRICT

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.

SF GAY HISTORY

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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! ” 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.

MOSW GAY MAP

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. It’s been a rtrant for s, but om 1972 to 1977, 2223 Market Street was a gay piano bar lled the Purple Pickle. It then beme the Balny om 1977 to 1983, a rtrant that quickly beme a gay leather bar, and then the Amy om 1983 to 1988, a safe-sex men’s sex club.

Stt’s P, named after the owner, a lbian named Stty, was another improbable lotn for a gay bar the basement of a Victorian buildg.

Stty eventually sold to a gay man who shortened the name to Stt’s.