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29: 198: 391: 470: 465: 186:, was not welcome at the original bar in the 1960s due to race; however in 1976 Simon opened a new club with the same name, the Anxious Asp on Haight Street. 460: 85: 374: 298: 271: 480: 148:, and The Capri. Arbuckle had pivoted The Anxious Asp to a more mixed queer and bohemian crowd (many of which were related to the 392:"Can Our Politicos Handle Trendytown? Sister Boom Boom's village of San Francisco will give this convention an est-coast setting" 168: 78: 434: 231: 129: 176: 475: 172: 183: 426: 320: 167:
In total, a collection of San Francisco LGBT venues opened and flourished in the late-1950s, including
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with the same name, and was purchased in 1958 by Arlene Arbuckle. Arbuckle also owned the
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The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground
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American lesbian and bohemian bar in San Francisco, California (1958–1967)
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Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance
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bar in operation from 1958 to 1967 at 528 Green Street in the
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Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965
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Coordinates
37°47′59″N 122°24′29″W / 37.799812°N 122.407947°W / 37.799812; -122.407947
bohemian
North Beach
cabaret
Paper Doll Club
Beat movement
Vesuvio Cafe
Kinsey Reports
Janis Joplin
Tommy's Place/12 Adler Place
Miss Smith's Tea Room
Tin Angel
Louisiana Creole
LGBTQ portal
List of lesbian bars
"Before the Castro: North Beach, a Gay Mecca - FoundSF"



The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground
ISBN
978-1-4214-2634-1
Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance
ISBN
978-0-8195-5308-9


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