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Bay Area Reporter :: Bay Area Reporter turns 50: Once a bar rag, paper now bestrides LGBTQ news

Fifty years ago the gay bar that foremost location for so much dating, friendships, political organizing, and times both fun and challenging gave birth to the B.A.R., when the first copies of the Bay Area Reporter were set atop cigarette machines in San Francisco watering holes. Since those early, heady days of what was then called the Gay Liberation Movement, the bar rag evolved to become the undisputed newspaper of record for the Bay Area s LGBTQ community, distributing 20,000 paper copies each Thursday, and of course available 24/7 online. According to Michael Yamashita, a gay man who has been the paper s publisher since 2013, the paper has never missed an issue deadline not even when threatened by the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989.

Bay Area Reporter :: SF supervisor doubles nightlife recovery fund cash

Bay Area Reporter :: SF supervisor doubles nightlife recovery fund cash
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SF Eagle Bar Passes First Hurdle Toward Landmark Status

SF Eagle Bar Passes First Hurdle Toward Landmark Status The SF Eagle, the SoMa LGBTQ bar formerly known as the Eagle Tavern, is hoping to secure status as the third LGBTQ bar location to receive a landmark designation by the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission. And earlier this week, a Board of Supervisors committee approved a first step toward getting there. On Monday, January 25, the board s Land Use and Transportation Committee unanimously voted 3-0 to forward the Eagle s petition for landmark status on to the Historic Preservation Commission. As the Bay Area Reporter tells us, bar owner Lex Montiel spoke at the virtual meeting and said, We have endured through hard times and bringing the community back together. As a person and San Franciscan, I want to point out the importance of the bar and its mission.

Bay Area Reporter :: San Francisco tells gay bathhouses, Welcome back!

For the first time in nearly four decades operators of traditional gay bathhouses can once again seek permits to open in San Francisco. The city s public health department has rescinded the restrictions that have kept such businesses from operating in the city since the mid-1980s. A legacy from the height of the AIDS epidemic, bathhouses in San Francisco until now could not have private rooms with locked doors and were required to monitor the sex of their patrons. Those regulations, when put into effect, resulted in a de facto ban on gay bathhouses in San Francisco, leaving residents to have to travel to such businesses in Berkeley and in San Jose. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the lone gay bathhouse left in the Bay Area is Steamworks in the East Bay and it remains closed because of the health crisis.

Bay Area Reporter :: Bathhouses, Eagle landmark could boost SOMA LGBTQ district

The giant leather pride flag that flew over the nearly finished Eagle Plaza in San Francisco s South of Market neighborhood was so frayed by the wind that it was quietly removed late last year. The shredded fabric was an apt symbol for the battering the area s Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District experienced itself in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic decimated the finances of numerous LGBTQ businesses in SOMA, with bars forced to close, restaurants required to end indoor dining, and stores ordered to reduce shopper capacity. The Stud nightclub turned into a virtual entertainment venue in hopes of one day opening in a new brick-and-mortar space. Blowbuddies, the area s last remaining sex club, shuttered for good as the health crisis wiped out its business.

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