District 6 San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney introduced a resolution at Tuesday s Board of Supervisors meeting to grant landmark status to the Eagle, the South of Market gay-owned leather bar. Today, I am also introducing a resolution to initiate landmark designation for the San Francisco Eagle Bar, a historic LGBTQ nightlife institution and legacy business located in District 6 within San Francisco s Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District in SOMA, as provided for under Planning Code Section 1004.1, Haney, a straight ally, told the Bay Area Reporter.
The resolution is expected to first go to the supervisors land use committee early in 2021. The Board of Supervisors would then take a vote on it. After that, the proposal goes to the historic preservation commission, which has 90 days to weigh in on the proposal. It then returns to the supervisors for a final vote officially designating the property as a city landmark.
In-person dating is no longer banned in San Francisco.
But you can only date outdoors and no double dates. Matt Haney (@MattHaneySF) December 13, 2020
Haney tweeted in a thread saying, The original order was obviously ridiculous, unrealistic, extreme, so much so people wouldn t understand or follow it. The new version is still overly restrictive imo. The public health orders have to be connected to reality or they will increasingly be ignored completely.
The other five Bay Area counties that joined the early stay-at-home order have not adopted the same update.
In San Mateo County, officials made the decision to not follow the stricter rules yet. One of the reasons was because they thought not having any social support system outside the household is detrimental, San Mateo Deputy Health Officer Dr. Curtis Chan told ABC7 News last week.
It wouldn’t have been a first-night Hanukkah celebration in this year of tumult without at least
something unexpected happening.
Sure enough, as Rabbi Yosef Langer of Chabad of San Francisco prepared to light the
shamash on the enormous menorah in Union Square, the glass bulb protecting the candle from wind fell off and smashed to the ground.
“It’s like a wedding,” Langer, a big S.F. Giants fan known as the “Rally Rabbi,” said with a chuckle after things had settled down. After a quick swapping of the wind guards, Langer was able to light the shamash the helper candle marking the start of the eight-night holiday on Thursday evening.