Shas of the rabow: East Bay gay bars evolve, stay relevant wh the queer muny

Sat, Aug 5 • 7:00 PM + 4 moreThe DetourSF Gaymers LGBTQIA+ Game Night at the bar! Sun, Aug 6 • 11:00 AM + 4 moreNoe Street Between Market and Beaver Night at Splash San Jose - Gay Bar & NightclubTuday • 7:30 PM + 70 more65 Post StTrivia Night at Splash San Jose - Gay Bar & NightclubTuday • 7:30 PM + 70 more65 Post StWalkg tour of LGBTQ life the Barbary Coast (North Beach)Sat, Aug 12 • 11:00 AM + 6 moreWashgton Street & Kearny StreetWalkg tour of LGBTQ life the Barbary Coast (North Beach)Sat, Aug 12 • 11:00 AM + 6 moreWashgton Street & Kearny StreetLGBTQ Night at Yield We BarSunday • 5:00 PM + 70 moreYield We BarLGBTQ Night at Yield We BarSunday • 5:00 PM + 70 moreYield We BarTown Bar & LoungeThursday • 5:00 PM + 21 more2001 BroadwayTown Bar & LoungeThursday • 5:00 PM + 21 more2001 BroadwayBnch Buffet + Variety Show @ Jolene's! 7/30 - 12PM SEATINGSunday • 12:00 PM2700 16th StQueer First Fridays at The Whe HorseFri, Aug 4 • 9:00 PM Whe Horse InnQueer First Fridays at The Whe HorseFri, Aug 4 • 9:00 PM Whe Horse InnManhattan Men Gay Friendly Male Revue Club - San FrancisTomorrow • 8:00 PM + 141 moreEl ToroManhattan Men Gay Friendly Male Revue Club - San FrancisTomorrow • 8:00 PM + 141 moreEl ToroGROOVY DAYZE @ MADRONE'S ART BARSunday • 3:00 PMMadrone Art BarGROOVY DAYZE @ MADRONE'S ART BARSunday • 3:00 PMMadrone Art BarGay Men Speed Datg San Francis | Sgl Event | Seen on VH1Fri, Aug 4 • 7:00 PM S&R Lounge | Hotel ZettaGay Men Speed Datg San Francis | Sgl Event | Seen on VH1Fri, Aug 4 • 7:00 PM S&R Lounge | Hotel ZettaGAY GUNDAM NIGHT!

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Wed, Aug 30 • 5:00 PM Sour Cherry ComicsGAY GUNDAM NIGHT! Wed, Aug 30 • 5:00 PM Sour Cherry ComicsLet's Go Dis @ MADRONE ART BARSat, Aug 26 • 9:30 PM Madrone Art BarLet's Go Dis @ MADRONE ART BARSat, Aug 26 • 9:30 PM Madrone Art BarSuch a good girl @ Jolene's Bar Sunday July 30th 8pm-12amSunday • 8:00 PM2700 16th StreetSuch a good girl @ Jolene's Bar Sunday July 30th 8pm-12amSunday • 8:00 PM2700 16th StreetTIX@DOOR - Polyglamoro prents SneaksTomorrow • 10:00 PMClub SixTIX@DOOR - Polyglamoro prents SneaksTomorrow • 10:00 PMClub SixComedy at The BAR on DolorThursday • 8:00 PM + 8 moreThe BAR -on DolorComedy at The BAR on DolorThursday • 8:00 PM + 8 moreThe BAR -on DolorGayish Podst LIVE San Francis at OasisSun, Aug 13 • 1:00 PM OASISGayish Podst LIVE San Francis at OasisSun, Aug 13 • 1:00 PM OASISHot Tea Leather EdnSun, Sep 24 • 5:00 PM 316 11th StHot Tea Leather EdnSun, Sep 24 • 5:00 PM 316 11th StBentley’s Outdoor Cocktail Bar GRAND OPENINGToday • 5:00 PMMARKET & MAIN’s Back Pat Next to Five Suns Brewg.

This is also the first time Huynh will own a bar, but a ago he was a bartenr at some of the most proment gay bars San Francis, mostly the Castro district. When he took stock thgs, Huynh said, “I realized that the bt tim my life were the Castro, beg myself, beg gay and ee.

“I would love to make a quote unquote Castro of Oakland, ” he said, “where people flow om bar to bar all night, a real gay scene right here Oakland. The Whe Horse Bar Oakland claims to be the olst ntuoly operatg gay and lbian bar the Uned Stat.

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A 45-year-old self-intified gay man, Murphy has been g to the Whe Horse for 17 years and workg there, as need, for 16. He the word “fay” a lot his scriptns of the Whe Horse, the putative “olst ntuoly operatg gay and lbian bar the Uned Stat.

The turng pot Stonewall reprents is not when gay Ameri got angry, ’s when straight Ameri started to pay attentn. Gay bars have long been at the center of the movement for equaly.

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Photo: Cirs WoodMurphy scrib the Whe Horse generally, and gay bars specifilly nearly spirual terms. ”Like Murphy, generatns of Amerins have gone to gay bars to fd and make their own fai. Yet gay bars are closg.

’ Photo urty of The Port BarBut the biggt sgle factor drivg gay bars out of bs is the broar trend of natnal acceptance.

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Gay bars have bee a sualty of progrs. ”“Dpe the advanc that we have ma terms of our rights, so many people, even around here, grew up hom that were evangelil, or acceptg of other people beg gay but not their kid, ” he said.

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Whereas lbians, gays, bisexuals and even trans dividuals of prev generatns hewed largely to genr norms and sexual orthodoxy, younger generatns are ls likely to choose and stick to an early and dividual letter of LGBTQ, and more likely to reach directly for Q, embracg a sort of “etcetera” or “y, and” inty that allows for multiple and more flexible exprsns of self. In the tradnal sense, gay bars may be closg, but the world is also gettg more queer. The more accurate statement is fively gay bars are closg.

Sullivan not that though the gay rights movement was started by queer, trans people of lor, s primary beneficiari — and most equently picted victims — have been cisgenred whe men. Though historians dispute who actually threw the first brick, unlike the fictnal Danny Wters, Johnson was actually Uribe, general manager of Club 21 and Club BNB, two gay nightclubs Oakland. Uribe wants to make sure Club 21 and Club BNB n wele but also expand beyond the queer subcultur most associated wh gay bars — the “typil gogo boys, or high femme female-prentg folks, ” he said — subcultur that still hold to tradnal, if hyperbolic, terpretatns of bars are a place to ask “how n those of who intify as queer or LGBTQ+ be better alli wh the muny?

”The role, as Uribe se , of gay bars is to expand outward to queer bars, which is to say to a more pletist reprentatn. Gay bars are a place to ask “how n those of who intify as queer or LGBTQ+ be better alli wh the muny? “It’s part of our rponsibily as owners and operators of gay or historilly gay and queer spac to ph the envelope to make sure that we’re evolvg wh our muny.

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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. Connect wh a top Berkeley Gay Realtor today!

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Connect wh a Berkeley Gay Realtor for a no-obligatn nversatn today! This month, an unassumg gay dive on a quiet stretch of Telegraph Avenue near the Oakland-Berkeley borr officially turns 80 years old. The Whe Horse Inn, now dubbed WheHorse Bar, is generally thought to be the olst gay bar Ameri — or at least the olst ntuoly operatg one the same lotn — but s exact age, jt like that of many a va olr gay man, is likely to rema a mystery.

Official rerds put the bar’s openg 1933, as the Bay Area Reporter recently learned, jt after Prohibn end, but was likely a gay speakeasy years before that, as Prohibn was barely enforced the Bay Area and the buildg predat that year. As the San Francis Chronicle pots out, there’s another gay bar, Cafe Lafte New Orleans, which may be tied official age wh the Whe Horse, havg also “opened” cintally 1933, but has changed lotns once sce then. Long before gay marriage, or even livg openly, was a possibily, the Whe Horse served the East Bay’s LGBT muny.

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