Event Type: Nightlife
Dates significant to bars, nightclubs, and other forms of nightlife, such as the opening or closing of historically significant bars, significant police raids, or historically-significant actions taken by bars and clubs.
2023-01-22
Harvey’s, the restaurant/bar at 500 Castro Street, unexpectedly announces they’re closing at the end of the day after 27 years in business.
2020-07-30
The Castro gay bar Badlands announces that it will be closing permanently. Their announcement reports that a new bar under new ownership will open in…
2006-01-10
The Edge, a Castro neighborhood gay bar, ceases all fundraising events after declining to apply for an entertainment permit. New owners take over in February…
1981-08-21
Steve McEachern has a fatal heart attack at the Catacombs in San Francisco, a BDSM sex club and the most famous fisting club in the…
1977-01-02
Folsom Prison, one of San Francisco’s best-known leather bars, closes.
1961-10-11
The ABC files charges against three SF gay bars (the Hideaway, the Jumping Frog, and Cal’s Tavern) after sending in undercover cops instructed to look…
1966-07-25
Febe’s opens on the corner of Folsom & 11th Streets, becoming the first gay leather bar on Folsom Street.
1964-04-13
The D’Oak Room on Divisadero at Oak, which opened in February of 1962, hosts an Academy Awards party. It is believed to be the first…
2020-02-08
In preparation for her retirement from co-owning Oasis SF, Heklina hosts her last Mother, the weekly drag show that evolved from Trannyshack, her drag show…
2020-07-15
Esquire magazine names piano/cabaret bar Martuni’s one of the top 27 bars of any kind in the country — the only SF bar (and possibly…
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