BARtab February 2012: page-view
February 2012 BARtab, in handy page-view format. You’ll just love it.
February 2012 BARtab, in handy page-view format. You’ll just love it.
Put a little retro spice in your love life this year. Take a tip from a 1973 ad for A Taste of Leather. Their Valentine’s Day Specials include “Genuine Imitation Mink” posing briefs and The “Swinger Cock Ring.”
Happy New Year and happy new issue of BARtab, with fun articles and expanded bar and nightclub event listings.
If you are new to the Bay Area, you could be excused for thinking of the area between San Francisco and Mountain View as a nightlife free zone – at least as far as LGBT nightlife goes. But it has not always been this way. In fact, between 1970 and early last decade there were both gay and lesbian bars, show bars and bath houses in San Mateo County.
Happy Holigays! BARtab’s December issue is full of Yuletide happening events.
The growing number of post-WWII gay bars anticipated the need for alternative community over the holidays. Many bars stayed open through these days and nights, offering more than a bit of spiked eggnog for patrons who couldn’t visit their biological families.
Most gay nightlife history focuses on bars. But San Francisco restaurants were popular gathering places for gays, even going back to the 1930s.
Cocktails, Anyone?, Curtain Up! (theatre parties), Night Bites (clubs’ sandwiches), Pod People (DJs online) and due to popular demand, our expanded On the Tab listings.
October’s BARtab in handy page-view format. Halloween & Wine, Costumes & Cabernets, Monsters & Merlots, Spooks & Spirits and events galore; plus our wonderful advertisers.
Long before Gaga and ‘Glee,’ and six years before Stonewall, San Francisco queers turned Halloween political when the City forced the legendary Black Cat bar to close forever Halloween night 1963.