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.
2016-09-19
A plaque honoring the Lexington Club, the City’s last dedicated lesbian bar, is formally dedicated.
2015-04-30
The Lexington Club, the City’s last dedicated lesbian bar, closes. A plaque recognizing it outside of the former bar was dedicated in 2016.
2014-10-23
The Lexington Club, the City’s last remaining dedicated lesbian bar, announces that it is closing.
1971-08-11
The grand opening of Boot Camp, a South of Market leather bar, merits a mention in Herb Caen’s column in the San Francisco Chronicle.
2014-12-31
Heklina, D’Arcy Drollinger, Geoff Benjamin, and Jason Beebout open The Oasis, a theater and cabaret nightclub located in San Francisco’s SOMA district.
2016-12-30
A collective of artists, DJs, and performers take ownership of The Stud, which they bought from Michael McElheney upon his retirement.
1966-05-27
The Stud, a gay bar owned by George Matson and transwoman Alexis Muir, opens on Folsom Street. It moves to 9th & Harrison in 1987.
1996-06-27
San Francisco’s premier gay piano bar, Martuni’s, opens at 4 Valencia Street.
1910-04-10
The Gangway opens in the Tenderloin. The bar, which closed in 2016, claimed at the time to be the City’s first and oldest gay bar.
2015-01-29
San Francisco native Cookie Dough (a.k.a. Eddie Bell), founder and hostess of the Monster Show, dies after a sudden illness.
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