The 21 ideal gay bars in San Francisco
From bicycle rider bars to piano lounges, these gay bars in San Francisco and Oakland are the most remarkable in the Bay Area
San Francisco-- house of the nation's first openly gay chosen authorities (Harvey Milk), birthplace of the rainbow flag, the initial city in the USA to legislate gay marital relationship and also host of the best damn Satisfaction parade in the country-- remains a significant LGBTQ epicenter. Which ways, there's tons of gay bars in San Francisco. At these LGBTQ spots, San Francisco club and also only-in-SF fetish fests, genders and also sexual-orientations of all stripes are welcome.
Queer artistic expression thrives at Sanctuary, a club as well as cabaret theater in SoMa. Opened up in a former gay bathhouse in 2015 by San Francisco drag tales Heklina as well as D'Arcy Drollinger, the 8,000 foot space comes alive each weekend for a myriad of fantastic efficiencies, consisting of ever-popular interpretations of timeless television programs like Sex and also the City, The Golden Girls and also Buffy the Vampire Killer. For drag purists, it's Sanctuary' weekly Saturday revue, Mother, that really eliminates. The comic, electric program is various each time, with the Queens taking on whatever from Disney princesses to stand out stars. Grab an unique cocktail at the Moroccan themed Fez Area after that work out in for a mindblowing program of legendary proportions.
Just a couple of months back, Jolene's opened its loving arms to the lesbian and also queer neighborhood in the former Darger Bar\/Dear Mommy space on 16th Street. The so-called \"secure room\" is fashionable and modern-day, with a big front room with booths, a swimming pool table as well as lots of bar seating, and additional tables in a corner at the back. The dance floor, brilliantly lit and also papered in tasteful black-and-white breasts, thumps to the beat of DJs on Friday and also Saturday evenings. Thursday and also Friday nights Jolene's cooking area offers satisfying comfort price with plenty of vegetable alternatives. Weekend breaks breakfast fare like fried egg sandwiches and poultry as well as waffles pair flawlessly with bottomless mimosas.
The Mix has a more laid back strategy to LGBTQ entertainment than some of its competitors. A true neighborhood bar in every sense of the word, at The Mix the drinks are strong, the patrons get along as well as the back patio is charitable. Regular all-day beverage specials--$ 2 residential pints on Mondays, $5.50 Hangar 1 Vodka alcoholic drinks and $3 beers on Wednesdays and also $2.50 Tecates\/$ 5 Tito's Vodka mixed drinks on Thursdays-- provide just one more reason to decrease in, whether it's 7am or 11pm.
Once El Rio was a Brazilian Leather Bar. Today, this brightly colored room caters more to the lesbian crowd, however with lots of indie bands and evenings committed to worthwhile causes to attract those from varied edges of the city. While there are a handful of wonderful queer patio areas in SF, El Rio's big, light-strung, plant-laden backyard is just one of the best with exterior ping pong competition and also cost-free al fresco oysters on Friday nights at 5:30 p.
Birthed from the ashes of Ginger's Trois, one of the Financial District's classic queer spaces, Ginger's admires the gay bars of days gone by. This moodily-lit, brick-walled barroom has a pool table and a small phase for normal drag shows as well as karaoke nights. Old-school cocktails like the Lexington Manhattan as well as Deco Lounge Sidecar are called in honor San Francisco's very early queer spaces.
Club 21 is one of the few gay clubs in the Bay Area that deals with the Latinx neighborhood. More than that, the dancing floor is enormous, the drinks are cheap as well as there's complimentary nachos for all. Friday and Saturday evenings are for Latin Explosion and also La Bota Loca (Latinx cowboy) celebrations where Go Go dancers drink to latin\/house\/hip jump or banda songs and also drag entertainers strut their things.
What Auntie Charlie's Lounge does not have in location (it's hidden in the Tenderloin) it offsets in character. This postage-stamp sized, pink-lit barroom and piano bar includes the Hot Boxxx Girls, a long-lasting drag program, on Friday and also Saturday nights (reservations encouraged). Be sure to bring songs as well as plan to tip every woman. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, DJs rotate power-pop, glamrock, as well as retro \"homo bar\" standards.
This fun-loving bicycle rider bar welcomes loudmouth punks and weird realistic customers of all types. The Opening in the Wall surface does its name proud: dark and divey with wall surfaces glued with band posters and news trimmings, light-bright installments and motorbike ephemera. Sign up with one of bench's 2 pool teams or just stubborn belly up to the bar for a drink, actually: shirtless men get $2 off all drinks every Thursday night after 10pm.
