The owner of new Oakland LGBTQIA+ bar Town Bar & Lounge dreams of a gay scene to rival San Francis's the East Bay.
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Style, taste, and munyDeAndre Sloan, an Oakland native, who was at Town for his send time sce opened, was also glad to see a new gay bar the "bright si of the Bay. ""I'm glad to see bee growg up we didn't have a lot of this gog on, " said Sloan, a Black gay man.
Uptown's anchor gay clubs Club BNB and Club 21 closed. Then COVID-19 turned the stgglg gay nightlife to a ghost town overnight.
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Sloan also noted the mic was cent g om the state-of-the-art sound Oaklanrs are g out of years of the panmic to a hostile anti-gay environment. They are also givg queer San Francisns a reason to cross the is exced about the rebirth of Oakland's gay nightlife and to be a part of . "It is turng to more of a gay district, and I love that I'm brgg somethg different to that.
Que Ri, a gay Latx bar that opened durg the panmic, is about a ten-mute walk om Town. The Port owners will officially open Fluid510 May C was sold on the fact that Town was near other gay bars.
"His fay got behd his visn for the Oakland gay bar gog all wh him fancg and buildg Town. He hired longtime Oakland rint Diana Maduli, a self-scribed "hella gay" woman, as the Town's bar manager. 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.