In particular the Sunday beer bust has been a wonderful community gathering to raise money for nonprofits, especially HIV providers. "The Eagle has been a very important cultural nightlife venue in the LGBT community for several decades. Wiener also discussed the significance of The Eagle. "Having people that want to re-open it as The Eagle is great news." Wiener said he and Supervisor Jane Kim worked with the new proprietors, Alex Montiel and Mike Leon, to gain a lease. "A lot of us fought very hard to keep The Eagle Open," he said. Today San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener told us he was very happy that the Eagle has re-landed. We look forward to seeing all of you very soon! Eagle the pride of our community once again. We will continue to host fundraisers for all the organizations from the past, as well as welcoming new ones to make the S.F. We just couldn’t let such a historic place like this disappear! The bar and patio located at 398 12th Street has long been a special place, not only to the LGBT community, but to the entire community for decades, not to mention the live music community as well. Please check this website periodically for new announcements coming soon. It will take a couple of months to do the much-needed repairs and upgrades that the property requires, but some upcoming events are already in the works prior to the opening of the bar. It is our pleasure to announce that the Eagle will fly again! Your new hosts, Mike and Alex, will reopen the bar as the S.F.
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We’ll update you with details on Driftwood as soon as they become available.The Eagle Tavern, a gay bar that was a 30-year-old SOMA mainstay until it closed last April due to a rent increase, is going to re-open, at least according to its web site. And Marlena’s in Hayes Valley is set to close next month. Deco Lounge in the Tenderloin recently closed.
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The Eagle is hopefully still going to reopen, though there’s been no recent word on that. (See Bold Italic’s new roundup for a smattering of those still in existence.) A bar known as Ginger’s Trois in the Financial District gave way to the reclaimed-wood covered Rickhouse just four years ago. Gay bars outside the Castro have also become a dying breed in the last few years. The bar has styled itself as not all about leather in recent years, but has remained a “cruising” bar - albeit a sparsely populated one. Sadly for some, leather bars across the country are closing as the hyper-masculine subculture has dwindled greatly since its heyday in the seventies, and the expected closing of Kok Bar follows this trend. It returned quickly to being My Place again in 2006, and then became Chaps II, with a new coat of black paint and the revival of its back room. As both My Place and Chaps and in its current state, the bar has some ardent fans, but not the community-wide love that The Eagle has for its large patio, so we’re not expecting to see protesters set on preserving this place.īut as gay studies scholar Tim Dean recently pointed out, this bar, as the Ramrod, was a leather bar back before the gay liberation movement began, since at least 1967, and only during its brief incarnation as Cip did it try to be anything else - namely a cocktail lounge with a water feature, for a brief period in 2005-06. The recent blowup over the closure of The Eagle, and the subsequent battle to keep it a gay bar despite new lessees who were ready to move in, is not likely to be repeated here. We should note that the sale is not complete, and Kok Bar (link semi-NSFW) remains open, doing their Pants Off parties on Fridays, and everything else, for at least another month or two. However Grub Street learned via one of the current bartenders that the staff was informed of the pending sale of the bar via email from current owner David Morgan in the last two days. We’ve reached out to new owners Shawn Magee (who also owns Amnesia in the Mission) and Christopher Milstead, but have not yet heard back about their plans. cities, but we’ll reserve judgment for now.
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The name conjures the reclaimed-wood aesthetic at nearby cocktail bar Bloodhound, not to mention the reclaimed wood aesthetic at a hundred or so other trendy spots around this and other U.S. A tipster pointed us yesterday to the fact that some new owners are moving in with a new name and concept, called Driftwood, which seems to signal a shift away from chain link and jock straps. The bar at 1225 Folsom Street has gone by many names over the decades - The Ramrod, My Place, Cip, Chaps II, Kok - but one constant has remained through most of that time: It’s been a dark and dirty cruise bar for gay men. Note the leather curtain blocking the view from the street - a longtime feature.