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• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• 5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED
• RACE BANNON: SAN FRANCIS – A GAY KK DTATN

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

(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.

5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED

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.

RACE BANNON: SAN FRANCIS – A GAY KK DTATN

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.

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At first was a bar for old gay hippi. The gay bar be the first leather muny se to be named a historil landmark the cy.

The bar's gay owners supported the signatn, which San Francis cy Supervisor Matt Haney, who reprents the area, set motn last year not long after the lot where the bar is loted was put up for sale.

"The cy needs to do more to acknowledge the cril role that plac like the Eagle ntue to play makg San Francis such a special place, and I am proud to put forward one of SOMA’s most beloved Legacy Bs and gay bars for this important distctn, ”Acrdg to San Francis Planng, "The tent of Landmark signatn is to protect, prerve, enhance and enurage ntued utilizatn, rehabilatn and, where necsary, adaptive e of signifint cultural rourc. Part One by Gayle Rub, excerpted om "The Miracle Mile: South of Market and Gay Male Leather, 1962-1997" Reclaimg San Francis: History, Polics, Culture (Cy Lights: 1998).

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In 1964, when Life magaze did a story on homosexualy Ameri, a photograph of the Tool Box was spread across the two openg pag. He modified a small plaster reproductn of Michelangelo's David, makg him to a classic 1960s gay biker: "I broke off the raised left arm and lowered so his thumb uld go his pants pocket, givg him ciser body language. Marc had given each of San Francis's three major gay neighborhoods a nickname.

It ntrasted wh Marc' nickname for Polk Street, the Valley of the Queens, reference to the olr and sometim more effemate populatn of gay men associated wh the area. By the late 1970s, the Castro was unqutnably the center of lol gay polics, but the Folsom had bee the sexual center. The same featur that ma the area attractive to leather bars ma hospable to other forms of gay sexual merce.

Many of the non-leather gay bathho and sex clubs also ntled among the wareho. Jt before the age of AIDS, the South of Market had bee symbolilly and stutnally associated the gay male muny wh sex. Some gay men wanted to assert themselv mascule, overtly sexual ways, and to fd partners who shared their sire for tense sexual nnectn.