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This means the bar’s official opening date was in 1933, but it seems highly likely that it was operating as a gay speakeasy catering to the liberal university crowd, right at the outskirts of town, during the 1920s. As the story goes, when Prohibition ended, the owners had the bar building moved across the city line from Berkeley to Oakland, because in 1933 Berkeley briefly became a dry city.
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Though it looks nothing like it did back then, and barely like it did a few years ago thanks to a recent remodel, The White Horse is very possibly the oldest continually operating gay bar in the country. And while lesbians still make their way here regularly due to the significant lesbian population that took root in this neighborhood, the crowd tends to be fairly mixed and LGBT-friendly these days, with a younger generation of straight folks who call Bernal Heights home hanging out here too.
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Two broken toilets were among several objects that crashed through the bar’s windows in the early years, as working class Bernal denizens didn’t take too kindly to a gay bar in their midst in the 1970s. Over the years the place has taken on an easy-going, neighborhood character, and the quirky patio with its toilet bowl planters has a story, too. Named for an obscure early 1960s film that featured Barbara Stanwyck as a lesbian madame, the bar began life in the East Bay before relocating first to North Beach in 1968 (Janis Joplin used to hang out there, as did some of the women who danced topless in nearby clubs), and ultimately to this space in Bernal in 1977, where original owners Pat Ramseyer and Nancy White lived conveniently upstairs. This charming dive out in the wilds of Bernal Heights is still lesbian-owned, and if it’s not exactly a lesbian bar, it’s still an essential place. The latest CDC guidance is here find a COVID-19 vaccination site here. Health experts consider dining out to be a high-risk activity for the unvaccinated the latest data about the delta variant indicates that it may pose a low-to-moderate risk for the vaccinated, especially in areas with substantial transmission. For SF’s queer community, it’s all about monthly themed parties, often held at locations that are straight most other nights.īelow, find a selection of the most essential drinking spots for LGBTQ crowds around the Bay, listed geographically from West to East. When it comes to dancing, you can find some at a couple of spots (and the “White Ho”) on a regular basis, but big dance clubs are now a thing of the past. Meanwhile, Polk Street, where an explosion of gay bars began in the mid-1960s and continued through the 1990s, has only one sole survivor from that era, The Cinch. Two neighborhoods where gay nightlife thrived in the 1970s, the Castro and SoMa, are still home to the majority of San Francisco gay bars, and Oakland is home to what is likely the longest continuously operating gay bar in the country, The White Horse, which officially opened in 1933 at the end of Prohibition. "We listened to the feedback that we got in Denver, learned a lot along the way and hope to make a comeback in the future with a better understanding of what Denver needs.While longtime queer spaces may be disappearing in San Francisco and other cities, queer people in most of America, including in the Bay Area, understand that actual, physical social spaces are still vital to the culture.
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"We quickly realized that the needs of the Denver community were different from what we knew about the Dallas community, so with that being said, we decided it was best to pack up Sir and take it back to where it all started for us, the Lone Star State," Trey wrote in an email to Westword.
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Sir was twice the size of that space and offered a full menu of eats that were more fine-dining than typical bar fare, including duck bao buns and braised pork skewers. Misster, which has been open since the summer of 2019. The duo behind Sir, Trey Stewart and his father, Tyler, also own a gay bar in Dallas called Mr. But now the doors at 1822 Blake are shut once again. Sir/Instagram As Sir, the space was bathed in red-hued lights at night and hosted regular drag brunches on weekends.