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• THE 5 BEST SAN DIEGO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN DIEGO
• SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.
• PECS BARSAN DIEGOMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSLBIAN BARSSNASSHOPSGAY MAPPECS BAR
• GAY SAN DIEGO

THE 5 BEST SAN DIEGO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN DIEGO

At the wtern end is Urban MO's Bar & Grill, a "hetero-iendly gay bar" and lol favore. Consired the world's first and only gay-owned brewery, 's a great spot to grab a pizza or two and make iends at a munal table, while enjoyg the many beers on tap. It was once voted one of the bt gay bars Ameri by Yelp.

Wh ep red walls and chanliers, SRO Lounge is a legendary gay bar that livers a glam but laid-back vibe. 9 plac sorted by traveler favorGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissGay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissWhat travelers are saygDoug MCalgary, Canada579 ntributnsWish we had found Mo’s earlier our trip. San Diego was home to same-sex upl as far back as the 19th century, but wasn’t until around World War II that gays and lbians started to e out of the shadows and fd plac to ll home.

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SAN DIEGO'S GAY BAR HISTORY

But thgs changed dramatilly the 1970s as Hillcrt attracted LGBTQ people who sought cheap hog and were willg to fix up Victorian hom, a classic se of “gaytrifitn.

” The Brass Rail, meanwhile, led the vanguard of gay and lbian bars flockg to the “gayborhood” and nearby neighborhoods — North Park, Banker’s Hill, and Universy Heights.

“Gayborhoods allow gays and lbians to fd one another for iendship and fellowship, sex, datg, and love, spe the ascendance of datg apps, ” said Am Ghaziani, thor of the book “There Go the Gayborhood?, ” a 2017 terview. There has been a lot of talk about the cle of the classic “gayborhood” the Uned Stat.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.

A Voice of San Diego analysis of 2010 cens data found that lol gay male upl were still highly ncentrated Hillcrt and nearby neighborhoods.

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Gay bars are fairly rare the days: Only about a dozen are still open the cy of San Diego. But our regn was home to many dozens of gay bars over the eight s sce World War II, acrdg to the 2018 KPBS documentary “San Diego’s Gay Bar History. In 1957, a straight man named Lou Arko bought the bar, then hoed the later-molished Orphm Theater downtown, and weled a gay clientele at night after bspeople went home.

Organizers of the Gay Center for Social Servic gather at s Goln Hill headquarters 1973. The Gay Center/LGBT Communy Center.

GAY SAN DIEGO

In 1972, a classified ad a newspaper announced that an anizatn lled the Gay Center for Social Servic “needs a home. Includg the word “gay” the name of an anizatn was a bold move 51 years ago.

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Many gay men didn’t know where else to go bee they were aaid to be seen at gay bars, pecially if they were married or the Navy, said Walt Meyer, a historian of San Diego’s LGBTQ past. On KPBS TV / Stream now wh the PBS AppSce WWII, no ls than 135 gay bars have operated San Diego, and provid sanctuary for GLBT people to disver themselv and form muny. “San Diego's Gay Bar History” exam the rol bars have played across three major time perds: after WWII until the birth of the morn gay rights movement 1969; durg the 1970s and until the onset of HIV 1981; durg the AIDS epimic (1981-1995), and beyond.

San Diego's Gay Bar History. Through archival photographs, historic footage, and terviews wh bar owners, bartenrs and proment muny members, this documentary provis a glimpse to the rich history of San Diego's gay history and culture. Exterr photo of the Chee Chee Club, operated ntuoly sce 1941, and turned gay the 1970s.

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The new documentary San Diego's Gay Bar History surveys some of the 135 bars that have existed the cy and chronicl the var aspects of the LGBTQ muny that have grown wh them. The earlit example of a gay bar San Diego me the 1957, when straight ally Lou Arko bought the popular lunch club of the 1930's, the Brass Rail, and extend to a meetg spot for gay people at post-World War II era herald the openg of many more bars, terg to the pennt men and women who had moved to the btlg port cy for ary jobs. Durg this time, when homosexualy was crimalized and was even agast the law for two men to dance together, the bars provid a meetg place for LGBTQ people who were otherwise isolated.

The Ball Exprs, a massive club hoed an airplane hangar, drew crowds of a thoand people gathered for acts such as Barbara Cook, Gloria Gaynor, and Eartha Kt. WCPC also hosted some of San Diego's first Pri events, but they quickly outgrew the AIDS began vastatg the gay muny the '80s, the bars beme the plac for folks to gather, grieve, and raise money for men dyg om the disease. Interviewe cred lbians for steppg up to re for gay men when nurs wouldn't touch or feed their patients and for donatg blood bee gay men weren't allowed to do so.