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• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• TOP 7 LGBT MEETUP GROUPS IN SAN FRANCIS GAY FLAG | © BENSON KUA/FLICKR NIKA WASHGTON 09 FEBARY 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT SAN FRANCIS HAS THE HIGHT POPULATN OF ADULTS WHO INTIFY WH THE LGBTQ MUNY. WH MEETUPS CREASG POPULARY, ANIZERS ARE CREATG GROUPS TARGETG SPECIFIC MUNI. HERE ARE 7 TOP GAY MEETUP GROUPS SF THAT ARE SURE TO PIQUE YOUR TERT. VIEW ALL TRIPS BRIDGEMEN – GAY MEN’S COMMUNY GROUP SPONSORED BY THE LOOKOUT AND THE SAN FRANCIS AIDS FOUNDATN, THE BRIDGEMEN MEETUP GROUP IS ALL ABOUT MUNY SERVICE, HEALTHY LIVG, AND SOCIAL WORKG WH THE LGBT MUNI. FOUND ON JANUARY 25, 2012, THE GROUP HAS OVER 1,600 MEMBERS. PAST MEETUPS HAVE CLUD THE AIDS/LIFECYCLE FUNDRAISER BENEF, THE MAG ART OPENG, AND MUCH MORE. SO IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE SAN FRANCIS GAY SCENE OR SEEKG NEW ADVENTUR, JOG BRIDGEMEN SHOULD FELY BE ON YOUR LIST OF OPTNS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP JAPAN BALI TURKEY SOUTH AI EGYPT ECUADOR THAILAND MOROC INDIA CROATIA ICELAND GREECE SPA MEXI QUEER THEORY BOOK GROUP IF YOU LOVE TO READ, THEN YOU SHOULD NSIR JOG THE QUEER THEORY BOOK GROUP MEETUP. WH SELECTNS FOCG ON LGBT ISSU, THIS IENDLY GROUP SELECTS A DIFFERENT BOOK EVERY MONTH AND V S MEMBERS TO SHARE THEIR PERSPECTIV EELY. FOUND ON JULY 12, 2012, PAST SELECTNS HAVE CLUD JUDH BUTLER’S GENR TROUBLE, MICHEL FOUULT’S HISTORY OF SEXUALY, VOLUME 1: AN INTRODUCTN, AND JAM BALDW’S GVANNI’S ROOM. INDIVIDUALY © TORBAKHOPPER/FLICKR EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP GAY MEN NEW TO SF 20S/30S ARE YOU A GAY PROFSNAL LOOKG TO WORK? THEN THE GAY MEN NEW TO SF 20S/30S IS THE PERFECT GROUP FOR YOU. FOUND ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2014, THE GROUP ALLOWS FOR S MEMBERS TO BUILD RELATNSHIPS, WHETHER IS OVER A BONFIRE ON THE BEACH, HELPG WH LGBT NONPROFS ANIZATNS, OR CELEBRATG DURG HAPPY HOUR. WH OVER 1,600 MEMBERS, ’S NO WONR WHY THIS MEETUP IS STEADILY BEG MORE POPULAR. EAST BAY LGBTQ FUN GROUP ADVENTURO IS THE PERFECT ADJECTIVE TO SCRIBE THE EAST BAY LGBTQ FUN GROUP. STRIVG TO FD QUEER-IENDLY ACTIVI OM QUEER YOGA TO GAME NIGHTS, EVERY EVENT IS A BLAST. OPEN TO SUGGTNS, THIS MEETUP RPECTS S MEMBERS AND ENURAG MEMBERS TO CREATE IAS FOR FUTURE EVENTS. FOUND ON JULY 16, 2009, THE EAST BAY LGBTQ FUN GROUP CURRENTLY HAS 3,544 MEMBERS, AND MEMBERSHIP NTU TO GROW. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. BAY AREA OUT & OUTDOORS THE SAN FRANCIS BAY AREA HAS NUMERO AMAZG STATNS THAT WILL PROVI YOU WH SOME BREATHTAKG VIEWS. THE BAY AREA OUT & OUTDOORS MEETUP GROUP, FOUND ON FEBARY 15, 2012, WILL HELP YOU TO ENJOY THE BETIFUL OUTDOORS WHILE ALSO GETTG EXERCISE AND MEETG NEW PEOPLE. WHETHER YOU HAVE AN TERT SCUBA DIVG, MOUNTAEERG OR BACKPACKG TO NAME A FEW, THERE IS SOMETHG FOR EVERYONE. A GROUP ALL ABOUT EXERCISE, OUTDOORS, AND RECREATNAL SPORTS, ’S NO WONR WHY BAY AREA OUT & OUTDOORS HAS OVER 3,400 MEMBERS. CHECK OUT THEIR PAGE TO LEARN MORE. HALF MOON BAY© GEOFF LIVGSTON/FLICKR SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S SALON WH TOPICS SUCH AS: ‘ARE GAY MEN DIFFERENT FROM STRAIGHT MEN? AND WHY?’ TO ‘DGS AND THE GAY COMMUNY,’ THE SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S SALON IS A POLIL Fé THAT DISCS GAY RIGHTS AND SOCIAL ISSU. STIMULATG TELLECTUAL NVERSATNS AMONGST S MEMBERS, THIS SALON CREAT A SAFE, FUN ENVIRONMENT FOR IAS TO BE EXPLORED. FOUND ON JANUARY 22, 2009, THE SALON CURRENTLY HAS A MEMBERSHIP OF 1,206 GAY TELLECTUALS. THE THKER © HARSHLIGHT/FLICKR OAKLAND & SAN FRANCIS – LBIAN MIXERS, EVENTS, ACTIVI HERE’S A MEETUP TARGETED TOWARD LBIAN AND BISEXUAL WOMEN. WH EVENTS FOR EVERYBODY NO MATTER IF YOU’RE SGLE OR A RELATNSHIP, THIS GROUP SEEKS TO ‘PROMOTE A VIBRANT LBIAN MUNY THE BAY AREA’. PAST MEETUPS HAVE CLUD: ‘LBIAN SPEED DATG’ AND ‘ENHANCE YOUR SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE’. WH 2,309 MEMBERS STRONG, THE OAKLAND & SAN FRANCIS – LBIAN MIXERS, EVENTS, ACTIVI THAT WAS FOUND ON APRIL 21, 2013 WILL ONLY NTUE TO GET STRONGER. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?
• SAN FRANCIS GAY CISE CLUBS
• BEHOLD: A MAP OF SAN FRANCIS'S LOST GAY BARS
• GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• SAN FRANCIS GAY MAP

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

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San Francis has long been synonymo wh the gay muny and the LGBT movement at large. It’s fair to say that while San Francis was beg a bean of hope for gay men and women around the world – the policy of the Uned Stat ernment and s treatment of LGBT cizens (particularly the stigma surroundg the HIV/AIDS crisis) was everythg but supportive and welg to the muny.

The Stonewall Rts of 1969, while geographilly distant, voked a surge anizatns for the gay muny. In the subsequent years – bars, galleri, cultural tablishments and social and cultural bonds were cemented to make San Franciso one of the homosexual epicenters of the world. As the first openly gay man to be elected to public office the state of California – his robt, hands-on mpaigng lead to him beg, spe an ially osty receptn, wily accepted by the public.

The gay history of San Francis is embedd to s history still prent both physilly and atmospherilly and enjoyed by s LGBT rints and all those who choose to vis.

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TOP 7 LGBT MEETUP GROUPS IN SAN FRANCIS GAY FLAG | © BENSON KUA/FLICKR NIKA WASHGTON 09 FEBARY 2017 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT SAN FRANCIS HAS THE HIGHT POPULATN OF ADULTS WHO INTIFY WH THE LGBTQ MUNY. WH MEETUPS CREASG POPULARY, ANIZERS ARE CREATG GROUPS TARGETG SPECIFIC MUNI. HERE ARE 7 TOP GAY MEETUP GROUPS SF THAT ARE SURE TO PIQUE YOUR TERT. VIEW ALL TRIPS BRIDGEMEN – GAY MEN’S COMMUNY GROUP SPONSORED BY THE LOOKOUT AND THE SAN FRANCIS AIDS FOUNDATN, THE BRIDGEMEN MEETUP GROUP IS ALL ABOUT MUNY SERVICE, HEALTHY LIVG, AND SOCIAL WORKG WH THE LGBT MUNI. FOUND ON JANUARY 25, 2012, THE GROUP HAS OVER 1,600 MEMBERS. PAST MEETUPS HAVE CLUD THE AIDS/LIFECYCLE FUNDRAISER BENEF, THE MAG ART OPENG, AND MUCH MORE. SO IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE SAN FRANCIS GAY SCENE OR SEEKG NEW ADVENTUR, JOG BRIDGEMEN SHOULD FELY BE ON YOUR LIST OF OPTNS. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP JAPAN BALI TURKEY SOUTH AI EGYPT ECUADOR THAILAND MOROC INDIA CROATIA ICELAND GREECE SPA MEXI QUEER THEORY BOOK GROUP IF YOU LOVE TO READ, THEN YOU SHOULD NSIR JOG THE QUEER THEORY BOOK GROUP MEETUP. WH SELECTNS FOCG ON LGBT ISSU, THIS IENDLY GROUP SELECTS A DIFFERENT BOOK EVERY MONTH AND V S MEMBERS TO SHARE THEIR PERSPECTIV EELY. FOUND ON JULY 12, 2012, PAST SELECTNS HAVE CLUD JUDH BUTLER’S GENR TROUBLE, MICHEL FOUULT’S HISTORY OF SEXUALY, VOLUME 1: AN INTRODUCTN, AND JAM BALDW’S GVANNI’S ROOM. INDIVIDUALY © TORBAKHOPPER/FLICKR EDINBURGH AND THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS BY TRAIN TRAVERSE STLAND’S MOST SCENIC LANDSP, OM WT AST TO EAST, TRAVELLG BY RAIL VIEW TRIP GAY MEN NEW TO SF 20S/30S ARE YOU A GAY PROFSNAL LOOKG TO WORK? THEN THE GAY MEN NEW TO SF 20S/30S IS THE PERFECT GROUP FOR YOU. FOUND ON SEPTEMBER 19, 2014, THE GROUP ALLOWS FOR S MEMBERS TO BUILD RELATNSHIPS, WHETHER IS OVER A BONFIRE ON THE BEACH, HELPG WH LGBT NONPROFS ANIZATNS, OR CELEBRATG DURG HAPPY HOUR. WH OVER 1,600 MEMBERS, ’S NO WONR WHY THIS MEETUP IS STEADILY BEG MORE POPULAR. EAST BAY LGBTQ FUN GROUP ADVENTURO IS THE PERFECT ADJECTIVE TO SCRIBE THE EAST BAY LGBTQ FUN GROUP. STRIVG TO FD QUEER-IENDLY ACTIVI OM QUEER YOGA TO GAME NIGHTS, EVERY EVENT IS A BLAST. OPEN TO SUGGTNS, THIS MEETUP RPECTS S MEMBERS AND ENURAG MEMBERS TO CREATE IAS FOR FUTURE EVENTS. FOUND ON JULY 16, 2009, THE EAST BAY LGBTQ FUN GROUP CURRENTLY HAS 3,544 MEMBERS, AND MEMBERSHIP NTU TO GROW. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. BAY AREA OUT & OUTDOORS THE SAN FRANCIS BAY AREA HAS NUMERO AMAZG STATNS THAT WILL PROVI YOU WH SOME BREATHTAKG VIEWS. THE BAY AREA OUT & OUTDOORS MEETUP GROUP, FOUND ON FEBARY 15, 2012, WILL HELP YOU TO ENJOY THE BETIFUL OUTDOORS WHILE ALSO GETTG EXERCISE AND MEETG NEW PEOPLE. WHETHER YOU HAVE AN TERT SCUBA DIVG, MOUNTAEERG OR BACKPACKG TO NAME A FEW, THERE IS SOMETHG FOR EVERYONE. A GROUP ALL ABOUT EXERCISE, OUTDOORS, AND RECREATNAL SPORTS, ’S NO WONR WHY BAY AREA OUT & OUTDOORS HAS OVER 3,400 MEMBERS. CHECK OUT THEIR PAGE TO LEARN MORE. HALF MOON BAY© GEOFF LIVGSTON/FLICKR SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S SALON WH TOPICS SUCH AS: ‘ARE GAY MEN DIFFERENT FROM STRAIGHT MEN? AND WHY?’ TO ‘DGS AND THE GAY COMMUNY,’ THE SAN FRANCIS GAY MEN’S SALON IS A POLIL Fé THAT DISCS GAY RIGHTS AND SOCIAL ISSU. STIMULATG TELLECTUAL NVERSATNS AMONGST S MEMBERS, THIS SALON CREAT A SAFE, FUN ENVIRONMENT FOR IAS TO BE EXPLORED. FOUND ON JANUARY 22, 2009, THE SALON CURRENTLY HAS A MEMBERSHIP OF 1,206 GAY TELLECTUALS. THE THKER © HARSHLIGHT/FLICKR OAKLAND & SAN FRANCIS – LBIAN MIXERS, EVENTS, ACTIVI HERE’S A MEETUP TARGETED TOWARD LBIAN AND BISEXUAL WOMEN. WH EVENTS FOR EVERYBODY NO MATTER IF YOU’RE SGLE OR A RELATNSHIP, THIS GROUP SEEKS TO ‘PROMOTE A VIBRANT LBIAN MUNY THE BAY AREA’. PAST MEETUPS HAVE CLUD: ‘LBIAN SPEED DATG’ AND ‘ENHANCE YOUR SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE’. WH 2,309 MEMBERS STRONG, THE OAKLAND & SAN FRANCIS – LBIAN MIXERS, EVENTS, ACTIVI THAT WAS FOUND ON APRIL 21, 2013 WILL ONLY NTUE TO GET STRONGER. VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. SEE OUR CULTURE TRIPS KEEN TO EXPLORE THE WORLD?

San Francis Gay Clubs and Parti. You n download the Gay San Francis gui for ee. Willows Inn – a gay owned bed and breakfast the Castro neighborhood of San Francis.

Misterb&b is not a hotel or cha, but rather a bookg platform for rooms, apartments and hom and allows you to book om gay and gay-iendly hosts around the world. Unrstandg the gay scene is much more easily done wh the help of a lol and home-sharg is one of the bt ways to meet someone livg the cy who knows how thgs work, where and when are the bt nights to go out, and what plac to eat at and which to avoid. Misterb&b is our top choice if your prry is explorg the lol gay scene.

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Beach – the north end of Baker Beach is the gay, clothg-optnal beach.

Near Baker Beach is Marshall’s Beach which is also popular for gay and nu sunbathers. Fd the gayborhood, Victorian hom, trendy shops and rtrants the Castro.

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

San Francis is nsired an Amerin gay mec and at s heart beats the Castro District, one of the first gay neighborhoods.

This gay neighborhood is loted along Castro St. Hi Tops – this gay sports bar the Castro is a great spot to throwback drks while supportg your team. Oasis – this venue by Drag legends D'Arcy Drollger and Hekla prents drag shows, baret and theater productns to a mixed gay/lbian crowd SoMa.

The Stud – a rnerstone the San Francis gay bar scene, this dive-ish bar SoMa has been around the block. Eros – a gay, two-story sna the Castro wh steam, sna, showers, lockers, bunk beds and play areas. San Francis Pri – this gay pri event started back 1970 and today is the largt gatherg of the queer muny and s alli natnwi.

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The event, held annually durg the last full weekend of June, has more than 200 para ntgents and exhibors and over twenty muny-n stag and venu like Homo Hip Hop to Gray Pri. The 40th Annual San Francis Gay Pri Para where the theme was “Forty and Fabulo” San Francis, Calif.

(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. 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!

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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.