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THE 10 BEST TOKYO GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS TOKYO
Like many young queers, when I first moved to San Francis I head right for the Castro. Its reputatn as a gay haven had lured me here the first place. But over time, I found my home plac… * gay joint *
Its reputatn as a gay haven had lured me here the first place. From the 1950s through the early 1980s, Polk was the gay center of San Francis. In this pre-AIDS, pro-love era, Polk Street was a boomg gay center, filled wh clubs, bars, bathho, unrground and above ground sex clubs, and ontle gay rights groups that laid the foundatn for today’s lol queer muny.
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In short, Polk started , the area bears ltle remblance to the gay hub that once was. So I set out to explore the current and past gay Polk Gulch, gettg to know the spots that were and those that rema vibrant still.
Once a week hosted an amatr strip night, where young guys, jt off the Greyhound b om out of town, shed their cloth for the lol gays. The first Gay Pri ParaIn 1972, San Francis’s first Gay Pri para was held on Polk Street. The para route danced s way down Polk, om Aquatic Park, through fancier and straighter Rsian Hill, and through the gay ghetto to Civic Center.
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Jump’ Frog (Polk and Broadway)This popular Polk Street gay bar, which opened 1960, was one of the first on the rridor.
The Jump’ Frog was featured a 1964 Life magaze article about the “homosexual. ” The article dubbed San Francis “The Natn’s Gay Capal, ” a tle we have gladly held on to for s. )The TGSF was the first gay bs associatn the untry.
The Guild, which started 1962, offered a unified gay bs prence and protected dividual bars and clubs om police harassment, raids, and closur. The first TGSF print was a bartenr at The Suzy-Q, a popular gay bar the ’60s and ’70s.