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Twin Peaks Tavern is an American historic gay bar.It first opened in 1935 and is located at 401 Castro Street in the Castro District in San Francisco, California. [2] [3] It is one of the most famous bars in the Castro and features prominent oversized windows that were unveiled in 1972, something uncommonly seen in older gay bars. [2]
Badlands (sometimes Badlands San Francisco, Badlands SF, or San Francisco Badlands) is a gay bar and nightclub in San Francisco's Castro District, in the U.S. state of California. The bar opened in 1975 and closed in July 2020. [1] It reopened in October 2023. [2] [3] [4]
A separate sidewalk installation, the Castro Street History Walk (CSHW), is a series of twenty historical fact plaques about the neighborhood—ten from pre-1776 to the 1960s before the Castro became known as a gay neighborhood, and ten "significant events associated with the queer community in the Castro"—contained within the 400 and 500 ...
Toad Hall Bar is a gay bar in San Francisco's Castro District, in the U.S. state of California. [1] [2] History. The site formerly housed The Pendulum.
715 Harrison is a nightclub venue located in the SoMa neighborhood of San Francisco, California, known mostly for hosting Club X since 1989 and previously City Nights from 1985 to 2020. The club is designated by San Francisco as a legacy business and is one of the few venues in the Bay Area consistently open to guests above 18 years of age ...
Castro Street may refer to: Castro Street in the Castro District, San Francisco, California; Castro Street Station, a Muni Metro underground station at the junction of Castro and Market streets in San Francisco; Castro Street Fair, a street fair in the Castro neighborhood; Castro Street, the main street of Mountain View, Santa Clara County ...
Shortly before San Francisco's annual Pride parade in 2019, a year that marked the 40th anniversary of the White Night riots, the Milk Club's Executive Board penned an open letter [8] calling on the San Francisco Police Department to apologize for historic acts of violence against the city's LGBTQ community, including the ACT UP Castro Sweep in 1989, [9] the White Night riot in 1979, and the ...
Esta Noche (English: Tonight) was the first Latino gay bar in San Francisco and notably contributed to queer Latin culture. It operated from 1979 to 2014, and was located at 3079 16th Street between Valencia Street and Mission Street in San Francisco, California ( 37°51′27″N 122°24′29″W / 37.85746941419939°N 122. ...