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10 Castro Places That Used to be Gay Bars

San Francisco’s Castro District is currently home to 20 gay bars – more or less, depending how you define the parameters of the Castro, or…

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America’s first gay bar?

Queerty has an interesting excerpt from Justin Martin’s new book, Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians, in which he suggests that in the…

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History of Castro gay bars

Gay history is inextricably linked to the bar scene. For generations, gay people met each other furtively at hookup spots: parks, the piers, and other…

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Bathhouses and Beyond

Today’s Queerty has a brief history of gay hookups, from bathhouses to bars to hookup sites and now hookup apps. It’s just a quick overview…

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