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• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS
• SAN FRANCIS GAY SNAS
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
• QUEEN MáXIMA VISS HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BAR: ‘PRETTY FABULO’

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

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GAMEBOI® is the longt nng and most regnized 18+ gay Asian dance party drawg thoands of atten LA and SF. Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.

” Then, he started equentg GAMeBoi, a weekly Asian Amerin gay party at Wt Hollywood’s Rage Nightclub. He learned to embrace beg both Korean and gay, so much so that he directed “Fire Island, ” a groundbreakg queer Asian Amerin rom- released last year. Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg to people of lor.

“Fdg plac like GAMeBoi, where beg queer and Asian do -exist … It’s not like a 1, 000-year-old Korean cultural rual, but I uld create a new rual, ” said Ahn, a recent Friday, hundreds packed QT Nightlife’s monthly K-Pop Night at Micky’s, a Wt Hollywood gay club a block or so east om the old GAMeBoi posed for selfi a pk Barbie box wh dis balls hangg overhead. ” (Michael Owen Baker / For The Tim) Even historilly gay neighborhoods like Wt Hollywood or San Francis’s Castro district, Asian Amerins have long been ignored or fetishized, seen as feme and weak.

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In 2019, then-Wt Hollywood Mayor John Duran argued that he did not appropriately touch a member of the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel bee “he’s a skny Korean kid wh pimpl on his cheek.

” Asian Amerin advocy groups cricized Duran’s remark, wh API Equaly-LA potg to the long history of discrimatn agast Asian men gay muni such as Wt Hollywood, whose clubs “ed to require three forms of photo intifitn om anyone they perceived as Asian. ” said Crisman, a 36-year-old gay Korean Amerin rearcher and artist. On this night, he had brought some female high school iends who wanted to experience the gay clubbg scene.

Type: Gay Bar wh Dancefloor. In a nutshell: Longt nng gay Asian dance club San Francis wh karaoke, go-go's (Friday and Saturday), vio screens, DJ's and happy hour everyday 3pm - 8:30pm. But the area n be harr to navigate for those who are not whe gay men.

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The Harvey Milk-era of gay rights activism is no ls important — ’s jt that the LGBTQIA+ muni are vast and nta myriad ways to exprs and reprent sexualy and genr. Growg up gay the Amerin South was not a pleasant experience, Miah Jefa says. In the South Bay, they go to the off-the-beaten-path gay bar Renegas.

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“Jolene’s is also a spot that is workg hard to -cis-gay-man the queer nightlife scene, ” Calamia says. 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 historic venue, the first gay bar SF that had wdows so folks uld look om the street.

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Tripadvisor performs checks on TSan Francis, CA354 ntributnsThe Pilsner is a tried and te sual gay bar that offers iendly service. Perhaps the only SF rtrant to embrace outdoor dg by sellg patrons warm socks and blankets, Canela’s menu specials are also worth keepg on your radar at Halloween, Passover, C Mayo, and pretty much all holidays, along wh prix fix tied to SF Gay Men’s Chos shows and mil-theater opengs.

This two-level der wh formi, red swivel chairs, and plenty of rnival glass has been a league of s own ever sce the almost-as-gay Sparky’s vanished om Church Street years ago. Walk and be greeted by a fabulo Art Nouve mural, too sweet to be lled homoerotic, of two mystil-lookg men about to smooch.

”The killgs rekdled memori of the 2016 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people. (Above: A scene om The Tool Box picted a Life magaze story lled "Homosexualy Ameri.

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")We don't give gay bars the rpect they serve. 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 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.

Members set up a phone-tree to warn each other of impendg raids, set up relief funds and raised money for homophile groups like the Dghters of Bilis, the Mattache Society and the Not?

:In 1964, Life magaze featured a special report lled "Homosexualy Ameri. One of the first mastream discsns of S&M, the article tablished San Francis the mds of middle Ameri (and lns of gay men) as a place of sexual diversy and tolerance.

:The Stud helped cubate San Francis's gay hippie movement -- even Janis Jopl would e when she was town -- and provid an alternative to sweater queens and htlers. Wdows were smashed, police were fought off for hours and a muny showed s strength, providg a flashpot for gay and trans anizg on the Wt Coast: In 's wake a work of social, polil and LGBT-centric medil groups Hall (1971), 482 Castro:The origal Toad Hall -- a bar of the same name recently opened a nearby space -- is often creded wh lnchg the Castro as a gay district.

One of the first bars to chew a jebox favor of a DJ, Toad Hall ma the sleepy Eureka Valley a statn for gay men on the weekends, and soon bs owners and homebuyers saw the potential for a real neighborhood where gays uld live Peaks Tavern (1972), 401 Castro:Prr to Tw Peaks, gay bars were secretive affairs wh eher black-out wdows or no wdows at all. Popular gay cise club San Francis (sce 1992). Gay Club (14).