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Skip to main content Currently Reading Why SF's legendary The Stud is a 'queer bar,' not a 'gay bar,' and why LGBTQ+ words are changing Peter-Astrid Kane FacebookTwitterEmail Editor's note: This story contains sensitive language relating to gender and sexuality. For its 13th season, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” updated its initial words of encouragement to the contestants. For years, RuPaul started each show by saying, “Gentlemen, start your engines, and may the best woman win” (with “woman” emphasized with a winking tone). This season, that became “Racers, start your engines, and may...

Beloved SF Mission queer bar Virgil's Sea Room to permanently close FacebookTwitterEmail Virgil's Sea Room, a queer bar at 3152 Mission St. in San Francisco, is permanently closing.Michelle D. via Yelp Virgil's Sea Room, a nautical-themed queer bar at Mission and Precita in San Francisco, has permanently closed. "It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce our closure," read the Instagram announcement from owner Lila Thirkield on Monday. "We are another victim of the times. After a year of constant loss, not enough help from the feds, and a mental fatigue that can’t quite be...

Supervisors to vote on landmark designation for legendary gay bar SF Eagle Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail The exterior of SF Eagle gay bar in San Francisco's South of Market district.Kevin Y. on Yelp. SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday will vote on a resolution that could give landmark status to the historic bar SF Eagle -- considered by many to be the epicenter of the LGBTQ scene in the city's South of Market neighborhood. The resolution was authored by Supervisor Matt Haney and calls on the city's Historic Preservation Commission to consider granting the ba...

SF considers establishing trail-blazing new city office of 'drag laureate' Who should be the queen of queens? Peter-Astrid Kane FacebookTwitterEmail Sister Roma strikes a pose.Gooch Although San Francisco nightlife is very much on pause due to the pandemic, it's still possible to look ahead and see green shoots for the city's LGBTQ+ community. Supervisor Matt Haney wants to create a nightlife recovery fund to ensure that independent venues survive, for one. There may yet be a more targeted federal stimulus. And San Francisco may establish a new city-sanctioned office: that of drag laureate. A...

Moby Dick, one of the oldest gay bars in SF, faces uncertain future FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Moby Dick is located at 4049 18th St. in San Francisco.Blair Heagerty/SFGATEShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Moby Dick is located at 4049 18th St. in San Francisco.Blair Heagerty/SFGATEShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6 The fish tank seen above the bar at Moby Dick in the Castro.Yelp / Frances B.Show MoreShow Less 5of6 Owners Scot Riffe and Joe Cappelletti with their dog Rhoda and friend Gia Brown.Joe CappellettiShow MoreShow Less 6of6 His bar has sat empty since March 15, 2020, but Joe Cappelletti still has to fee...