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Often referred to as the gay Cheers loted on the historic rner of Market and Castro unr the oscillatg rabow arrow, offers regulars the forts of home, and visors a warm wele to the neighborhood and one of San Francis’s greatt assets…. But didn’t turn to a gay bar until new lbian owners Mary Ellen Cunha and Peggy Forster (who soon beme known as “the girls”) bought 1971, gettg their liquor license on October 11, 1972.

They bought and turned to a fern bar, unverg the picture wdows (that prev owners vered so that wiv uldn’t see their hbands drkg) and makg the first gay bar the Cy and possibly the untry where patrons uld be seen si. It was a sign of the changg tim; prevly, too many patrons were too closeted to risk beg easily seen a gay bar. But even wh the changg tim, was a bold move; people uld and often were still fired if they were spotted a gay bar.

1971 was a pivotal year the entrenchment of the Castro as a gay neighborhood. The Missouri Mule beme the first gay bar the neighborhood 1963. It uld have stayed that way as a one-off bar for lols, wh the Polk remag as the center of gay life the Cy.

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Then 1971, Tw Peaks was jt one of four new gay bars to jo them, and was the most visible due to s two-lot size, s lotn at the gateway to Castro Street, and s proment plate glass wdows.

In a 2012 terview for the tablishment of Tw Peak’s official landmark stat, Cunha related, “There were a uple gay bars on Castro and Market. Hemmelgarn, Seth, “Panel propos landmark stat for gay bar, ” Bay Area Reporter, October 25, 2012. Laird, Cynthia, “Sup OK landmark stat for gay bar, ” Bay Area Reporter, January 15, 2013.

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