As you refully pick your venue for this year's Pri celebratns, a mute to remember some foundatnal SF gay bars.
Contents:
- 5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED
- LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: TAVERN GUILD LKED SF GAY BARS FOR FIRST TIME
5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED
The bars helped shape and harn San Francis's gay inty. * first gay bar in san francisco *
(Above: A scene om The Tool Box picted a Life magaze story lled "Homosexualy Ameri. ")We don't give gay bars the rpect they serve. After several proment bars San Francis started shutterg -- victims of Manhunt and Grdr and time -- I started mappg a cy's worth of shuttered gay bars.
Cheers, Dash (1908), 547 Pacific:San Francis may have had gay bars before the The Dash, but none were as notor.
LGBTQ HISTORY MONTH: TAVERN GUILD LKED SF GAY BARS FOR FIRST TIME
* first gay bar in san francisco *
Focch's (1936), 506 Broadway:The drag show at Focch's was more of a tourist draw than an hont-to-goodns gay club, but helped brg gay culture -- and drag culture -- to the mastream spotlight.