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<\/p>\nNob Hill Theatre, SF\u2019s Iconic Gay Strip Club, Closes Today After 50 Years<\/b>
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The Nob Hill Theatre, San Francisco\u2019s last gay<\/a> strip club, closes its doors on Sunday, ending an era.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The SF Chronicle reports<\/a>: \u2018In many ways, Nob Hill Theatre, which closed Sunday, Aug. 19, after 50 years in business, was a relic, a holdover from a time when San Francisco was called the \u201cSmut Capital of America,\u201d when gay<\/a> men<\/a> had few safe places to meet, pornography was hard to come by and phones didn\u2019t have touch-screens or dating apps. The theater\u2019s slogan, \u201cTouch Our Junk,\u201d wasn\u2019t an empty promise.\u00a0But it\u2019s also true that up until its very last day, Nob Hill Theatre was a living and vital space, one that people from around the world would come to visit, and one that even people who had never visited before told Steward they\u2019d miss. Sometimes there\u2019s a comfort in simply knowing something exists.\u201cThis is another nail in the coffin of gay<\/a> San Francisco,\u201d Steward said, just days before the closure. \u201cIt\u2019s the end of an era.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n KTVU adds<\/a>: \u201cMuch of the ephemera has to be gone within a week, but Luce assured the\u00a0GLBT\u00a0Historical Society<\/a>\u00a0has come by to scoop up some of the gems inside. If the \u201980s made gay<\/a> bathhouses all but disappear from San Francisco due to the\u00a0AIDS crisis, what\u2019s contained within\u00a0these walls (much of what is not appropriate to show on this platform) seems to have survived bygone eras.\u00a0If you are interested in any of the wares, they will hold a garage sale on Sunday.\u00a0Once you get past the free\u00a0condoms (made available upon requirement), stamina pills, gay<\/a> porn playing on the TV screen and freshly folded towels in the lobby, the main floor\u2014\u00a0referred to as \u201cFantasy Land,\u201d contains a small 74-seat theater complete with a disco ball.\u00a0The art-deco lighting fixtures remain in tact and a\u00a0mirror strategically placed at eye level runs the entire length of the theatre to ensure maximum\u00a0peering at what exactly your fellow clientele may be\u00a0looking at. \u201c<\/p>\n The post Nob Hill Theatre, SF\u2019s Iconic Gay Strip Club, Closes Today After 50 Years<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad Gay News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n