San Francis Gay Bars : The Official San Francis Gui

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS
• BEHOLD: A MAP OF SAN FRANCIS'S LOST GAY BARS
• TOP 5 GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO (SAN FRANCIS)GAY CLUBS & BARS THE CASTRO
• THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

San Francis gay bars are a popular statn for not only the cy’s gay men, but for straight men and women terted havg a “gay old time”.

The cy’s gay bars feature large, outdoor celebratns (not unlike a gay pri para) that attract people of all strip that wish to be entertaed by a group of eclectic and unique sgers and dancers.

While not exclive any sense, some gay bars are signated for only certa typ of patrons (i. Tripadvisor performs checks on TSan Francis, CA354 ntributnsThe Pilsner is a tried and te sual gay bar that offers iendly service.

GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

Last month we brought you a roundup of ads om funct gay bath ho town, and about a year ago we showed you a semi-current map of the dozen gay bars that rema the Castro. But back the days before the ter and Grdr, there were two or three tim more bars for the homosexual set sttered around town than there are now.

Well, filmmaker and gay historian (and GayPornBlog-ger — lk NSFW) Mike Stabile has done a solid and created a Google map verg any and every historic gay and lbian bar he uld fd an addrs for. Two gay bars have closed already this year, Marlena's and Kok (formerly My Place), and both are beg mixed bars the future, jt the tert of foot traffic. See the map below, and as Stabile wr for the Pop-Up Mm of Queer History, the hand-drawn ads and matchbooks om this other era of gay bar culture reflects two generatns of gay men existg San Francis the 1970s.

THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS

" As source material, he ed ads om vtage gay magaz like Vector and After Dark, and there's also a PDF list that's been kept on the webse of the Cch Saloon, last revised 1996, that has some 700 bar nam on , most of them wh addrs. View Lost Gay Bars of San Francis a larger map. The Lost Gay Bars of San Francis [QueerMm].

The bt gay nightclub the stro. The Café has been a staple the LGBTQIA+ Castro muny for almost 30 years, and we are thrilled for our patrons to experience our state-of-the-art gay bar & nightclub.

No transphobia, homophobia, ableism, xenophobia, misogyny or any other form of bigotry allowed the space or on our enormo dance floor.

BEHOLD: A MAP OF SAN FRANCIS'S LOST GAY BARS

San Francis's olst gay bar, The Stud, announced Wednday is closg s doors due to lack of revenue as a rult of the ronavis panmic. (Above: A scene om The Tool Box picted a Life magaze story lled "Homosexualy Ameri. ")We don't give gay bars the rpect they serve.

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

After several proment bars San Francis started shutterg -- victims of Manhunt and Grdr and time -- I started mappg a cy's worth of shuttered gay bars. Cheers, Dash (1908), 547 Pacific:San Francis may have had gay bars before the The Dash, but none were as notor. Focch's (1936), 506 Broadway:The drag show at Focch's was more of a tourist draw than an hont-to-goodns gay club, but helped brg gay culture -- and drag culture -- to the mastream spotlight.

THE STUD, SAN FRANCIS'S OLST GAY BAR, IS CLOSG S DOORS DUE TO THE RONAVIS PANMIC

)The Black Cat (1951), 710 Montgomery:"There's nothg wrong wh beg gay -- the crime is gettg ught!

I951, after two years of police harassment, owner Sol Stouman took the police to the California Supreme Court, and argued that a bar uld not be shut down jt bee gay men ngregated there. He prevailed, providg stenance to the growg homophile Handle Bar (1960), California and Hy:Until 1960, most gay bars were expected to pay brib to police officers for 'protectn' om raids.

But 1960, the "gay-ola" sndal exposg such brib beme a media sensatn, and began a discsn about the rights of gays to equal protectns unr the Q (1962), Polk St. :In rponse to police harassment, San Francis bar owners formed the Tavern Guild -- the first gay bs associatn the Uned Stat -- at the Suzy-Q bar on Polk Street.