BARtab December 2011 page-view
Happy Holigays! BARtab’s December issue is full of Yuletide happening events.
Archive for the 'BARchive' Category
BARchive: Holiday Haunts
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.
BARchive: Eating Out
Most gay nightlife history focuses on bars. But San Francisco restaurants were popular gathering places for gays, even going back to the 1930s.
BARtab November 2011, page-view
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.
BARtab October 2011 page-view
October’s BARtab in handy page-view format. Halloween & Wine, Costumes & Cabernets, Monsters & Merlots, Spooks & Spirits and events galore; plus our wonderful advertisers.
BARchive: Monster Mash
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.
September 2011
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BARtab’s September 2011 issue, in handy page-view format. See all the features and our wonderful advertisers.
Leather’s Burning Man
At the first Folsom Street Fair in 1984, leather culture changed. Leatherfolk fell out of dark bars and down Alice’s rabbit hole toward transparent afternoon light. We saw ourselves not mythic under the red bulbs of bars, but, like mad dogs and Englishmen, out in the noonday sun.
BARtab August 2011; page-view
BARtab’s August 2011 issue in handy page-view. Reading is fun and fundamental.
BARchive:
North Beach’s Gay Past
North Beach may be thought of as a straight tourist mecca, but its historic roots include several lesbian, gay and drag bars and nightclubs.
