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The number of San Francisco gay bars increased in the 1960s. [28] In 1973, there were 118 gay bars listed in the San Francisco Gay Yellow Pages, in 2011, there were 33. [125] The first gay bar to have clear windows was Twin Peaks Tavern, which removed its blacked-out windows in 1972. [6] The first gay Latino bar was Esta Noche, in 1979. [126]
Hamburger Mary's is the name of several related hamburger restaurants that started in San Francisco, California, in 1972.The name of the business refers to both the original San Francisco location (which closed in 2001) and Hamburger Mary's Bar & Grille, a franchise with numerous locations around the United States, even though the original location and the franchise had been separately owned ...
This is a list of gay villages, areas with generally recognized boundaries that unofficially form a social center for LGBT people. [1] They tend to contain a number of gay lodgings, B&Bs, bars, clubs and pubs, restaurants, cafés, and other similar businesses. Some may be gay getaways, such as Provincetown or Guerneville.
North Beach was home to the first lesbian bar in San Francisco, Mona's 440 Club. Mona Sargeant and her husband Jimmie opened Mona's in 1936 in a North Beach basement as a small underground bar celebrating the end of Prohibition. Once Mona's gained enough popularity between the gay community and tourists, the club moved to a much larger location ...
The Stud is a gay bar currently located on 1123 Folsom Street in San Francisco. [1] [2] It was started by associates George Matson and Alexis Muir (Muir was a transgender woman then known as Richard Conroy) on May 27, 1966. [3] [4] According to George Matson, it was a "bar for people, not just pretty bodies". [3]
Twin Peaks Tavern is an American historic gay bar.It first opened in 1935 and is located at 401 Castro Street in the Castro District in San Francisco, California. [2] [3] It is one of the most famous bars in the Castro and features prominent oversized windows that were unveiled in 1972, something uncommonly seen in older gay bars. [2]
Leather pride flag in front of the San Francisco Eagle Bar. San Francisco Eagle (also SF Eagle, or simply The Eagle; formerly Eagle Tavern) is a gay bar in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood, in the U.S. state of California. [2] [3] The bar caters to the bear community and the leather subculture. [4] [5] Lex Montiel is one of the bar ...
In 1936, the San Francisco Chronicle published a "Cocktailing, Dancing, and Dining." In the guide, Mona's was described as a "bohemian" club, which was a coded way of describing it as sexually unconventional. [2] The bar became the first openly lesbian club that was geared towards the local gay community as opposed to gay tourists. Mona's ...