Posted in Featured Story Gay Bars & Clubs South of Market

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…

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Posted in Featured Story LGBT Activitists Marriage Equality Memorials

Phyllis Lyon (1924-2020)

Phyllis Lyon (right) and her wife, Del Martin, at their first wedding in 2004. Phyllis Lyon, the pioneering activist who cofounded the first lesbian rights…

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Posted in Other Holidays

Gay holiday traditions in San Francisco

San Francisco Skivvies Run, a holiday fundraising tradition in the Castro Michael Flanagan, a local journalist who has done so much fantastic reporting on LGBT…

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Posted in Gay Bars & Clubs North Beach

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,…

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