closed their doors between 20, and major LGBTQ+ landmarks like The Stud in San Francisco and Rage Nightclub in Los Angeles went under during the pandemic shutdown.
While 18 months of pandemic-related restrictions have created challenges that threatened to shutter the bar, owners and patrons say a “strong sense of community” is what continues to pull it through.Ī recent study showed that 37 percent of gay bars in the U.S. For the past 45 years, a small, unassuming bar in Walnut Creek called Club 1220, named for its street address at 1220 Pine Street, has been a fixture of the Contra Costa gay community.
