Lexington Club Archives

Nightlife

Ode to Uptown: RIP, feisty bar for punks and lefties

Christopher D. Cook - January 11, 2024

The legendary almost-40-year-old bar went out with tipsy adieus, sidewalk fiddlers, and a reminder of ongoing Mission gentrification.

Art

In Tanya Wischerath’s art, bold brushwork and a sparkling glorification of gender nonconformity

Mary Corbin - September 15, 2023

Painting, tattooing, and constantly creating, the quintessential SF artist expresses love for her queer community

Movies

Suck on this: The eviction-fueled, Web 1.0 dykesploitation of ‘Sugar High Glitter City’ returns

Caitlin Donohue - August 8, 2023

Directors of iconic 2001 lesbian ensemble film reflect on the eve of its SF PornFilmFestival screenings.

Nightlife

With Virgil’s closure, SF loses another great queer space

Marke B. - February 24, 2021

Owner Lila Thirkield reveals details about hurdles her beloved small bar faced as pandemic shut it down.

News + Politics

Our top stories of 2019

Marke B. - December 28, 2019

From the election of Chesa Boudin and Dean Preston to a renewed spirit of arts and culture in the face of displacement, the 48...

Onstage

Lesbian history finally takes center stage in ‘The Daughters’

Emily Wilson - October 23, 2019

The first act of The Daughters, a comedy by Patricia Cotter (at the San Francisco Playhouse through November 2), imagines the Daughters of Bilitis’ first meeting...

Party Radar

Party Radar: ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2019

Marke B. - June 23, 2019

PRIDE Heeeeeeey, Happy GIANT PRODE, everybody! Party Radar's been on a wee hiatus while I finish this crazy book, sorry. I miss getting nuts...

Music

Resistance Party! Ultimate Pride Guide 2017

Marke B. - June 18, 2017

ULTIMATE PRIDE GUIDE 2017 Pride started as a celebration of a protest, how cool is that? And watching SF Pride (Sun/25) progress from its raucous roots,...

Arts + Culture

2016: Some very bright spots

Caitlin Donohue - December 26, 2016

Good lord, 2016 -- the year the music died, the year the Internet got too real, the year America got majorly oranged. When the...

Music

Ultimate Pride Guide 2016

Marke B. - June 21, 2016

PARTY RADAR The night of the Orlando shootings, I was at the African American Arts and Culture Complex surrounded by friends I've shared hundreds...

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