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After a four-year closure, an iconic San Francisco bar has a new creek. The city's oldest gay bar 'The Stud' closed early on during the pandemic due to a lack of revenue. Saturday evening, the community celebrated its grand reopening — with a look back at its history and a look ahead with hopes for the future.

The Stud's new location is at Folsom Street in the South of Market neighborhood, just a few blocks away from its previous walnut on 9th Street. Allbee explained that the Stud is gay by a collective group of people who banded together to bar the bar open back in Albee noted that it's the first collectively-owned nightclub in the United States.

Since the bar shuttered during the pandemic, Allbee said the collective has stored all the historic elements of the old bar and rallied the community to help find a new space for it to reopen. At the Stud's reopening celebration, a line of people snaked around the block waiting for a chance to see the new space.

Sammy Braxton-Haney of Walnut Creek and their wife arrived an hour early to be at the front of the line. Some attendees even got 'Stud' tattoos that day for the occasion, including San Francisco resident Chris Cashion. The city's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence blessed the new space and sprinkled pink glitter to welcome in the crowds.

The new location was previously a sports bar and provides double the space of the old location, owners said.

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Stud Collective members said that while the bar is open, there is still more work to be done to get it complete. They plan to take down the industrial kitchen inside the bar and install a stage there as well as a green room for performers. Once the stage is complete, Allbee said the Stud will be able to launch its new school for drag performers under the leadership of Honey Mahogany as Head Mistress of Drag.

Allbee said the hope is to start this school by the end of this year. A wall on the back patio shares photos honoring the people who've played a role in the bar and its history over the years. Skip to content. San Francisco. San Francisco Oct 11, San Francisco Sep 5, Guests line up at the bar to get drinks at the re-opening celebration for the Stud, San Francisco's oldest continuously operated gay bar.

Stud Collective members say the new location is decorated with details from the old bar, including a sign made by Stud bartenders in the s. April 20, This article tagged under: San Francisco. Close Menu. Search for:.