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
- THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
- BEHOLD: A MAP OF SAN FRANCIS'S LOST GAY BARS
5 HISTORIC SAN FRANCIS GAY BARS WE WISH STILL EXISTED
The bars helped shape and harn San Francis's gay inty. * historic gay bars 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.
THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
* historic gay bars san francisco *
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.
BEHOLD: A MAP OF SAN FRANCIS'S LOST GAY BARS
From the Castro District to famo bars om history, San Francis is full of gay bars, clubs and mojre. * historic gay bars san francisco *
Cheers, Dash (1908), 547 Pacific:San Francis may have had gay bars before the The Dash, but none were as notor. 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. )The Black Cat (1951), 710 Montgomery:"There's nothg wrong wh beg gay -- the crime is gettg ught!