Warmer day. Here is the view from the city where it is 54 degrees. Temperatures at right around 60 in san jose. 64, mount view. Look at all of the fog. The Golden Gate Bridge. Numbers in the mid 60s already in concord. It has been sunny all morning long and on the peninsula mid 80s will be common. We are warming up today. It feels like summer but it wont last. Chris. Thank you. We start with developing news from san leandro where firefighters are at the scene of a major fire that damaged several businesses last night and still not contained this morning. It broke out inside a building along east 14th street near georgia way near the oakland border. The fire quickly spread to businesses next door including a popular san leandro jamaican restaurant called sweet fingers. The fire alarm grew quickly to three alarms. It was challenging, they say. They had a lot of obstacles in the building and a lot of combustibles in the building, a heavy fire load, so the fire rapidly expanded on them and
In the 1990s, queer women were having their moment in San Francisco. Mary Ellen Cunha and Peggy Forster had proudly opened the windows of Twin Peaks Tavern for all the world to see.
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Jeremy Atherton Lin
My favorite bar in San Francisco, Twin Peaks Tavern, is in danger of closing. Known as the glass coffin, for both its large plate glass windows and its older clientele, it was the first bar I went to when I moved to the West Coast in 2013 as a bright-eyed PhD student. Its Tiffany lampshades and cozy interior welcomed me in. Plopping myself onto one of its cushioned benches and looking out on Castro Street, I remember feeling overwhelmingly at home and embedded in queer history.
In a world in which queer people are ever more accepted and rigid identity categories make less and less sense, what is the purpose of gay bars? Do we still need them?
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S.F. gay landmark Twin Peaks Tavern was in danger of closing. Its patrons helped keep it open - for now
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Twin Peaks Tavern on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif. The tavern is closed, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The place is in danger of closing and is raising contributions to pay for rent and operations.Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Twin Peaks Tavern on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in San Francisco, Calif. The tavern is closed, amid the coronavirus pandemic. The place is in danger of closing and is raising contributions to pay for rent and operations.Santiago Mejia / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less