SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Updated] Lone Star Saloon Clears Legacy Business Hurdle, Potentially Thwarting Building Sale We learned a year ago that SoMa's Lone Star Saloon (1354 Harrison Street), a popular gay bear refuge since it opened back in 1989, was potentially in danger of being displaced as owner
Arts & Entertainment Community Bands Together To Save Iconic SoMa Gay Bar The Stud After New Owners Hike Rent 150% Our beloved clubhouse. The iconic STUD SF. Day of reckoning. A photo posted by Steve Fabus (@stevefabus) on Jul 3, 2016 at 12:31pm PDT Of all the iconic, legendary San Francisco institutions
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Best Gay Bars In San Francisco For Every Occasion In honor of Pride Week, SFist brings you this comprehensive guide to San Francisco's gay bar scene, tailored to each of your potential needs on any given night of the week. Sometimes you
SF News Expect Lines This Weekend As SF Gay Bars Beef Up Security Following Orlando Massacre With Pride upon us, San Francisco offers even more opportunities than usual to celebrate all that is fabulous in the city by the Bay. However, with the massacre at an Orlando gay club
Arts & Entertainment Gay It Up: Your Official SFist Guide To Pride Week 2016 Is Here Yes, Pride Sunday itself has become a bit less of a gay celebration in recent years, but with its million or so attendees in San Francisco and the strong tradition that many LGBT
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Gangway, SF's Oldest Gay Bar, *Might* Be Saved After All We at SFist and many others seriously lamented the potential imminent loss of The Gangway back in January, when a liquor license application showed that the place was in the process of being
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Cleve Jones Found A Bunch Of Straight 'Tech Bros' In A Castro Bar And Now Everyone Is Flipping Out This week the UK Guardian built a story around the fact that longtime gay activist and friend of Harvey Milk Cleve Jones was sounding alarm bells about seeing a group of men he
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Oldest Gay Bar, Gangway, Biting The Dust Soon Another one bites the dust, and this one's sad. One of the more charming remaining gay dives in the vicinity of Polk Street and the Tenderloin one of only two remaining holdouts, in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Gay Bar Truck Closing After Eight Years Sad news! Scrappy, automotive-themed, often very dirty gay bar Truck is shutting its doors later this month, as owner Paul Ringhofer-Miller confirms to SFist today. Ringhofer-Miller says that the bar has been sold
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh No! The Lexington Club To Close After 18 Years [Updated] Bad news for the LGBT community: The city's only, long-standing, dedicated bar for gay women*, The Lexington Club (3464 19th Street), is getting sold and sounds likely to close very soon. In a
SF News New SoMa Gay Sex Club Threatened By Gentrification A two-month-old, jail-themed sex club at 960-962 Folsom, as well as the adult store downstairs from it, may have to close or move after the building they're housed in was just sold. The
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Might Get A Gay Bar Next Door To The Paramount A group headed by former Oakland City Council legislative director Richard Fuentes is trying to find investors for a gay bar in the Uptown neighborhood, next door to the Paramount Theater. Unfortunately, though,
Arts & Entertainment Behold: A Map Of San Francisco's Lost Gay Bars Last month we brought you a roundup of ads from defunct gay bath houses in town, and about a year ago we showed you a semi-current map of the dozen gay bars that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gay Bar Death: Kok To Become Driftwood Following in the heels of Ginger's Tois, Marlena's, and Deco Lounge, Kok bar (NSFW) in SOMA is slated to drop in to the hands of new owners. Although the sale has yet to
Arts & Entertainment SomeThing Does Some 'Chorus Line' Drag Friday; Faux Queen Pageant Happens Sunday at DNA As an aid to San Francisco's thriving, though sometimes not so well publicized drag scene, we may have to start bringing you weekly highlights of drag queen (and king) events you should check
Arts & Entertainment Should Castro Bars Ban Bachelorette Parties Too? Take note, gay bars, The Abbey in West Hollywood has taken a stand against the scourge of bachelorette parties, as reported over at LAist. The bar has decided enough is enough, and despite
Arts & Entertainment Some Advice For Straight People In Gay Bars This being San Francisco, we have a lot of gay bars and clubs where go-go boys dance in tiny underwear, and drag shows that straight women like to go to, etc. Increasingly, gay
SF News Activists Protest Gay Rodeo Fundraiser At Powerhouse Bar Here's something you didn't know you'd be reading about today: the rights of grown gay men to put panties on a goat. Some animal-rights activists gathered outside the Powerhouse Bar yesterday to protest
SF News Deplorable Crooks Rufie-ing and Robbing Guys in Castro Here's an unwelcome bit of news out of the Castro gay-bar scene: There have been a string of incidents recently involving gay men getting rufied, led back woozily to their homes by crooks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Map: 12 Gay Bars In The Castro, Drawn On Cartoon Man's Abdominal Muscles Artist Nate Padavick drew this precious map showcasing 12 of the Castro's most popular bars. And he drew it on a cartoon man's abdominal six-pack. It was unleashed last year around Gay Pride
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Drops In On SF Bar for Surprise Pre-Show? Possibly as a small thank you to the gay community who helped give her a leg up in '08 while she was still touring around in semi-obscurity, Lady Gaga allegedly dropped in on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Playboy</em> Names Orphan Andy's in Castro One of Nation's Best Late-Night Diners As many San Franciscans know, getting food after midnight in this town is no easy feat. We still have our share of late-night diners though, like the Grub Steak, Sparky's, Lori's and Mel's.
Arts & Entertainment Punk-Drag Party Charlie Horse Killed By Neighbor Noise Complaints The expanding War on Fun has taken another life, ladies and germs. Marke B. over at the SFBG reports that punk-politico drag queen Anna Conda has decided to call it quits on her
Arts & Entertainment Margaret Cho to Make a Surprise Appearence at the EndUp Tonight SFist Jay sent us the scoop that Margaret Cho will be hanging with her pal, Monistat, at the EndUp's Chaser club tonight. There's no word on whether Cho will be MC'ing, performing, or
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A <em>Trauma</em>-tic Halloween Here it is people: the Trauma episode we've been waiting for. On Monday night, the Halloween episode of the SF-based helicopter drama will be airing, and all the drag queens in town who
