After 58 years, 's last ll for The Caliph, one of San Diego's longt-nng gay bars - The San Diego Unn-Tribune

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• AFTER 58 YEARS, ’S LAST LL FOR THE CALIPH, ONE OF SAN DIEGO’S LONGT-NNG GAY BARS
• GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?
• VALERIE GAY
• GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

AFTER 58 YEARS, ’S LAST LL FOR THE CALIPH, ONE OF SAN DIEGO’S LONGT-NNG GAY BARS

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GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

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VALERIE GAY

“When I bought the place, ” he said, “I always wanted to be all-clive — gay, straight, transgenr, young, old, men, women. “Bars like The Caliph have been a place where people the gay muny uld be themselv — a place where you wouldn’t even be looked at twice.

”More than that, though, The Caliph, for nearly six s, bore wns to the evolutn of the gay rights movement — s highs and s opened s doors 1960, seven years after Print Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Orr 10450, banng homosexuals om beg employed by the feral ernment. “One of the sweett memori I remember is when that fally happened, we had a uple of marriage proposals, ” relled Carey, who said she sang every gay anthem the book that night, om “Love Story” by Taylor Swift to “Defyg Gravy” om the mil “Wicked.

GAY PIANISTS: N YOU TELL?

”‘Like losg a fay member’The Caliph’s closure on the heels of other notable gay bars recently shuttg down. Bourbon Street, once a btlg nightspot jt a e up the street, shuttered 2015, and so did The Flame, a lbian loss of The Caliph “is really tragic, ” said lol filmmaker Pl Detwiler, who produced the KPBS documentary “San Diego’s Gay Bar History. ” “Unfortunately, this follows the larger trend of gay bars closg across the untry … through the homogenizatn procs of gentrifitn.

”Benjam Nicholls, executive director of the Hillcrt Bs Associatn, said many factors e to play when gay-centric bs shut down, but recent closur reflect how the nightclub scene is changg Hillcrt and nearby neighborhoods like Bankers Hill. It’s about a trend that’s enmic to the gay muny. “Every time we lose a gay bar — which has happened far too much recent years — we lose a piece of our muny’s fabric, ” he said.