Category: Neighborhoods
Harvey’s closes after 27 years
Harvey’s, the restaurant/bar at the corner of 18th and Castro, abruptly closed last week after 27 years in business. Although rumors had been swirling the…
The Stud to close after 54 years
The artist/nightlife collective owners have announced that The Stud, which lays claim to being San Francisco’s oldest gay bar, will not reopen at its current…
New look at early gay life in the Fillmore
LEFT: Longbar 1952. credit: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library RIGHT: The Big Glass circa 1958. credit: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Records Our…
Rainbow Honor Walk adds new honorees
We previously reported on the first 20 honorees for the Castro’s Rainbow Honor Walk — a series of bronze plaques in San Francisco’s Castro District…
The City’s oldest gay bar to close?
SFist.com is reporting that the Gangway, the oldest remaining gay bar in the City — and perhaps the City’s very first gay bar — may…
Looking for Mama: The search for Kathryn Forbes’ childhood home
“For as long as I could remember, the small cottage on Castro Street had been home.” So begins Kathryn Forbes’ 1943 fictionalized memoir Mama’s Bank…
Lion Pub, Alta Plaza, JJ’s Piano Bar, and other Pac Heights bars of yesteryear
Clockwise from top left: bar ad for the Lion Pub; Alta Plaza Park; site of the old Alta Plaza bar, site of the old JJ’s…
This Month in SF Gay History: May
Cast of the “Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City” musical in San Francisco (May 2011) May 5, 1921 On this date in 1921, Dorothy Louise…
Folsom Forever
A trailer for Folsom Forever, a documentary by Mike Skiff about the history of the Folsom Street Fair, has just been posted on Youtube. From the…
This Month in SF Gay History: April
Alice B. Toklas April 30, 1877 On this date in 1877, lesbian author Alice B. Toklas, partner of Gertrude Stein, was born in San Francisco….
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