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This Week in SF Gay History: November 24 – 30
Oscar Wilde (1889) November 30, 1900 On this date in 1900, writer Oscar Wilde, now honored on Castro’s Rainbow Honor Walk, died of cerebral meningitis,…
The Black Cat Café’s second act
We’ve written extensively about the Black Cat Café in North Beach, one of San Francisco’s early gay bars thanks to the efforts of Jose Sarria,…
This Week in SF Gay History: November 10 – 16
November 10, 1924 On this date in 1924, Phyllis Ann Lyon was born in Oklahoma. She became a lesbian pioneer and, with her future wife…
The gays get into the Halloween spirit
SF’s Gay Halloween – Part 2 Gay Halloween in North Beach The old Barbary Coast area of San Francisco, which includes parts of the present-day…
NPS identifies potential LGBT heritage sites
The National Park Service has identified hundreds of potential sites of LGBT interest for consideration for national landmark status, according to an article in this…
This Week in SF Gay History: October 20 – 26
October 24, 1998 On this date in 1998, Horst Hans Grahlmann, owner of Uncle Bert’s in the Castro as well as the Rainbow Cattle Company…
This week in SF Gay History: October 6 – 12
October 11, 1972 MaryEllen Cunha and Peggy Forster received their liquor license for the Twin Peaks Tavern. They uncovered the plate glass windows (which had…
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…
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…
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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