Splash Bar - Gay Bar San Jose

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• SAN JOSE (DOWNTOWN) GAY BARS
• THE BEST SAN JOSE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN JOSE
• SAN JOSE GAY MAP
•  CALIFORNIA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• BT GAY CLUBS CABO SAN LUS
• BOY NIGHTS.. NEW GAY CLUB/BAR SAN JOSE L CABO - SAN JOSE L CABO FOM
• GAY BARS SAN JOSE - SAN JOSE L CABO FOM
• THE BEST SAN JOSE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN JOSE
• GAY SAN JOSé TRAVEL GUI

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Touted as the olst gay bar San Jose, Mac's Club is a small but iendly environment wh lovely pat seatg the back to enjoy on any warm California night.

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Splash is one of the area's most popular gay nightclubs and a hub for the gay muny.

San Jose (Downtown), Gay BarsSplash65 Post St, San Jose, CA 95113 (Map)Two dance floors, a throbbg csh of bodi, sputterg laser lights, neon drks and a ton of TV monors make a weekend vis to Splash… +1 408. The mystery is how the largt cy the Bay Area and the third largt cy California wound up wh so few gay bars.

There have been bars that tered to gays and lbians San Jose sce at least 1947. In an article for the San Francis Gay & Lbian Historil Society Newsletter of June 1987, Eric Garber scrib as "a seedy skid row bar" which was a home for wos and down and outers as well as gays. The Midway Café (448 Wt Santa Clara) opened 1955 and was perhaps the clost thg to a morn gay bar San Jose.

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The rerd of the se (supplied to me by the ABC) said the bar, "had bee a meetg place for homosexuals of both sex; not only a meetg place, but a place of monstratn for this type of viatn om the normal sexual pattern. In the 1960s the Crystal Café (42 Wt San Fernando) beme a gay bar about 1963.

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The proximy to San Jose State Universy gave many young stunts their first experience a gay bar.

In the lumn "Really Ra" Lambda News om 1977, the thor says the Crystal Café was mixed durg the day and gay at night, and that both lbians and gay men were wele and beme good iends ("fay, " as the thor puts ). 1963 was also the year that Mac's (then at 349 South First Street), the olst existg gay bar San Jose, is first listed the Cy Directory for San Jose. From 1963 on San Jose had at least three gay bars.

From the 1970s onward, be much easier to track San Jose LGBT history bee of the advent of gay newsletters and newspapers. Asi om the bars, the newsletter provis a startlg picture of how advanced gay life was early on. 19, 1971 edn, there is an announcement of the first gay marriage at the MCC (not regnized by the state, of urse) between Jeff and David (no last nam were given).

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The San Jose Cy Council approved and then rcd a rolutn approvg a Gay Rights Week unr prsure om Christian fundamentalists. The actn ed Johnie Staggs and Sal Acrdi to announce their wre- ndidacy for Cy Council, makg them the first lbian and gay man to publicly n for office San Jose. Gay rights lost overwhelmgly wh 70.

Harassment of gay bars by police ntued through the 1980s. At the peak of the gay village ( 1987) San Jose had 14 gay bars. So what led to the mise of the "gayborhood"?

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In a 2002 SJSU Master's This, Gay Bars of Silin Valley: A Study the Decle of a Social Instutn, William M. Ls a club and more of a laid-back neighborhood dive, Mac’s is one of the longt-nng gay bars the South Bay.

Cheap drks and a mellow atmosphere lure a clutch of weekday regulars, gay and straight. But San Jose’s preement gay nightclub, the lorful rnerstone of Founta Alley, offers more than a weekend dance party.

(fabulo and gay) Fridays, drag shows, ladi night and an every-eveng “Big Gay Happy Hour. In rponse to a sperate need for ol gay bars San Jose, Splash opened up wh all the rabow-iendly excellence that any place needs to bee the leadg venue for LGBT awomens. Splash's eclectic, gay-iendly crowd mak the dance floor a hotspot and a variety of theme nights keep thgs tertg.

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Splash is a party statn for San Jose sgl, gay and straight.

2007 BEST OF SILICON VALLEY Rear Survey Wner - First PlaceBt Gay/Lbian Club-- Metro, Silin Valley's Weekly Newspaper, September 26, 2007.

The last dited gay vio dance club outsi of SF.

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> Gay Costa Ri > Gay San Jose San Jose Gay MapOur teractive gay map of San Jose. HotelsBarsDance ClubsSnasGay MapServicHotelsDance ClubBarSnaHave we got somethg wrong? Dpe beg one of the largt metropolan areas the untry, Silin Valley’s gay bar scene is strikgly mcule.

Today, there are only three bars left (Mac’s, Renegas, and Splash) – which is stark ntrast to 1986, when 14 gay bars were operatn. There is speculatn about the reasons for the cle of the gay bar scene Silin Valley over the years: the early equency of police raids and terference, a suburban and ‘fay-based’ liftyle, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the closens to San Francis, and the rise of the ter. The map below ntas some of the signifint areas of gay nightlife Silin Valley and how wispread ed to be.

Jim Michl, both a patron and manager of Mac’s Club, discs his time at the long-tablished gay bar and how has impacted him and the muny. From the Whiskey Gulch East Palo Alto to the Stockton Strip San Jose, the gay muny was wispread Silin Valley.

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Known throughout the gay muny for her signature “beehive” hairdo and fundraisg skills, Darlene Lutz Montalbano beme a member of the San Jose area LGBTQ muny 1969. Bt Gay Clubs Cabo San Lus.

Wh s "anythg go" attu, Cabo San Lus has always been relatively tolerant and gay-iendly, and Los Cabos, general, is hospable to the LGBTQ muny, particularly terms of vatn villas and marriage and renewal of vows ceremoni.