THE 10 BEST San Francis Gay Clubs & Bars (Updated 2023)

Contents:

• SEARCHG FOR A KIKI: SF'S FIRST BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR
• SF'S FIRST BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR OFFERED REFUGE OM RACISM THE '90S QUEER SCENE
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• SAN FRANCIS’S 3 MOST FAB GAY NEIGHBORHOODS
• THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS
• THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS

SEARCHG FOR A KIKI: SF'S FIRST BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR

Jun 10, 2022Failed to save articlePlease try agaRodney Barte, owner of The New Eagle Creek Saloon (Courty Rodney Barte)When Rodney Barte first moved to San Francis 1969, he noticed that “ wasn’t all rah rah gay pal of the world. ” His experienc wh racism San Francis’s historic gay muny led him to open the New Eagle Creek Saloon, the cy’s first Black-owned gay bar, 1990.

SF'S FIRST BLACK-OWNED GAY BAR OFFERED REFUGE OM RACISM THE '90S QUEER SCENE

Corey Anton Rose: Tell me about your first time gettg adjted to the gay muny here San Francis. Rodney Barte: When I first moved here, wasn't known as the gay pal of the Uned Stat.

They started openg more rtrants … and the more whe gay men that me, the more racist got. You know, thgs were so bad that they even created racist language to pict if a whe gay guy had Black gay iends or was attracted to Black people. But … when we left the bar, the San Francis Police Department was wag outsi wh paddy wagons and arrtg Black gay people who were standg around talkg, tryg to exchange numbers.

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

’ And almost unison we all said, ‘Bee 's a racist gay bar. I always knew that there weren't any Black-owned gay bars San Francis. My brothers always knew that I was gay and I never tried to hi , but they got a lot closer and unrstood every aspect of beg gay.

SAN FRANCIS’S 3 MOST FAB GAY NEIGHBORHOODS

They beme iends wh other gay ctomers and so forth, and they weren't gay.

We had women DJs, which they didn't have at that time any of the gay bars.

Rodney Barte: One of the thgs that people wanted, they said, 'Rodney, we never had reprentatn the gay pri para. We're not jt observers, people standg on the sile watchg gay pri.

THE GAY TRAVELER’S GUI TO SAN FRANCIS

In the 1970s and 1980s, Rodney relled, gay bars were among the least hospable plac San Francis for black people such as himself. There was hardly a place for gay black people to dance, let alone throw a fundraiser for a gay black polil ndidate.

Sadie Barte (L) ed her rincy at The Lab to honor San Francis's first black-owned gay bar the Eagle Creek Saloon, which her father Rodney (R) opened 1990. Sadie was five years old 1990 when her father acquired the bar that for the next three years provid gay people of lor a se of prott, refuge and revelry on Market Street—"a iendly place wh a funky bass for every race, " as s slogan went. Rodney, who moved to San Francis 1969, said he was surprised to fd racism the gay scene to be more pronounced than the cy over all.

THE 10 BEST SAN FRANCIS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SAN FRANCIS

At the Mhaft, like other gay bars, black people were often asked for three forms of intifitn at the door.

A news em on a whe gay man found strangled to ath at home noted that he was an Eagle Creek regular wh a "sexual preference for black mal, " unsubtly implyg a nnectn. A hub of gay rights activism, the bar hosted fundraisers for groups such as Lbians and Gays of Ain Dcent for Democratic Actn, which turn prsured the San Francis Board of Supervisors to pass legislatn fortallg the discrimatory intifitn checks. San Francis – home of the untry's first openly gay elected official (Harvey Milk), birthplace of the rabow flag, the first cy the Uned Stat to legalize gay marriage and host of the bt damn Pri para  the untry—remas a major LGBTQ+ epicenter.

(They don't ll the 'gay pal of the world' for nothg. So whether you're here June or not, honor SF's storied gay history at the mms, bars and cultural landmarks. When lookg for some of the bt gay neighborhoods San Francis, some stand out om the rt.

For some, is one of the bt gay areas San Francis. Bt gay areas San Francis. Lyn Harris: thorE Wilbek: former openly gay edor--chief of Vibe Magaze, managg edor at EssenceFelicia “Snoop” Pearson: actrsFrenchie Davis: micianFrank Ocean: micianGlen Burke: Major League Baseball playerIsis Kg: Ameri’s Next Top Mol nttantJam Baldw: thorJa Mock: activist, thorJasika Nile: actrsJean-Michel Basquiat: artistJohn Amaechi: NBA playerJosephe Baker: dancer, sger, and actrsJune Jordan: thorKev Aviance: female imprsnist and entertaerKylar Broad, lawyer, first trans-intified person to ttify before Congrs LZ Granrson: ESPN lumnistLangston Hugh: poet and social advoteLaverne Cox: actrs, producer, and transgenr advoteLee Daniels: film producer and directorLda Villaros: thor, journalist, and public speakerMa Raey: blu sgerMrice Jamal: filmmaker and directorMhell Ngeocello: sgerParis Barclay: televisn director and producerPatrik-Ian Polk: director, producer, screenwrer, sger, and actorRoy Simmons: NFL playerRuPl: actor, drag queen, and sger-songwrerSheryl Swoop: WNBA playerStacy Ann Ch: thor and poetTracy Chapman: sgerWa Davis, NFL playerWanda Syk: actrs and edian.

Tripadvisor performs checks on TSan Francis, CA356 ntributnsThe Pilsner is a tried and te sual gay bar that offers iendly service. Although Riggs died om plitns of AIDS the mid-1990s, to Black gay men like me, his work speaks volum to experienc that ronate even today. Marlon Riggs l up the world of documentary film wh his brilliant, vivid prose, and fervro gay rights activism–a visnary who ed his mera to shed light on the experienc of those often left the shadows.

As a Black, gay man, he was not aaid to explore the plexi of race, sexualy, and HIV and AIDS–and he did so wh a bold, unapologetic voice. Through a taptry of poetry, mic, and personal tal, “Tongu Untied, ” explor many thgs–HIV and AIDS, a Black and gay inty, and the plexi and ntradictns of life San Francis’s predomantly whe and gay muny, the Castro.