For years, Oaklanrs lookg for a fun gay night on the town had to eher cross the bridge or hop on BART. No matter how hard tried, the cy known as the Sunny Si of the Bay has always lived the shadow of s neighborg gay Mec.
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- OAKLAND'S NEWEST GAY & NIGHTLIFE DESTINATION
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- GAY & NIGHTLIFE DESTINATION
OAKLAND'S NEWEST GAY & NIGHTLIFE DESTINATION
The owner of new Oakland LGBTQIA+ bar Town Bar & Lounge dreams of a gay scene to rival San Francis's the East Bay. * town gay bar oakland *
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. When he took stock thgs, Huynh said, “I realized that the bt tim my life were the Castro, beg myself, beg gay and ee. “I would love to make a quote unquote Castro of Oakland, ” he said, “where people flow om bar to bar all night, a real gay scene right here Oakland.
“I would love to make a quote-unquote Castro of Oakland, where people flow om bar to bar all night, a real gay scene right here Oakland, ” Huynh told Oaklandsi. For years, he was a bartenr at proment gay bars the Castro and says, “I realized that the bt tim my life were the Castro, beg myself, beg gay and ee.
Oakland's newt gay bar, Town Bar & Lounge, is a fay affair. "I'm so happy bee I've been a longtime Oakland rint and we didn't have very many optns, " Joshua Huynh, a gay Vietname Amerin man, said about his dream of openg a gay bar and lounge fashned an updated 1920s style that is now a realy.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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The Bay Area Reporter went to Town to check out Oakland's newt gay nightlife spot April 29.
Addnally, he feels LGBTQ people and alli are out supportg gay bs. 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.
GAY & NIGHTLIFE DESTINATION
They also have fun nam: Afternoon Delight, Fashn Forward, and Green Ey Envy Me, to name a C, a gay Black man who was hangg out at the bar wh Sloan, sippg their Ami-Gos, was exced about Town. 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.