![]() ![]() Toad Hall (1971), 482 Castro: The original Toad Hall - a bar of the same name recently opened in a nearby space - is often credited with launching the Castro as a gay district. Windows were smashed, police were fought off for hours and a community showed its strength, providing a flashpoint for gay and trans organizing on the West Coast: In it's wake a network of social, political and LGBT-centric medical groups coalesced. In 1966 - three years before Stonewall - a riot broke out after police accosted a patron. ![]() John Waters frequented it during his time in the city in the late 60s and wondered how the bar made any money, since no one on acid drank.Ĭompton's Cafeteria (1966), 101 Taylor: Not a bar per se, but one of the few places trans people could congregate. The Stud (1966), 1535 Folsom St.: The Stud helped incubate San Francisco's gay hippie movement - even Janis Joplin would come when she was in town - and provided an alternative to sweater queens and hustlers.
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