SOS and other figures in queer nightlife are floating the idea of establishing "cooperative bars" in the face of a savage real estate market-bars that are owned by several establishments, promoters, and proprietors, who would each program the space on different nights of any given week. Glamamore performs at Club Some Thing at the Stud. To preserve that heritage, the Stud's current crop of resident art-makers has created an advocacy group called Save Our Stud (SOS.) City Commercial Investments, LLC, who purchased the building, has not announced any plans for the property, but SOS dread the possibility of more tech condos in the SoMa tech corridor where the bar sits. What set the Stud apart from its peers was a decades-long commitment to nurturing cutting-edge music, dance, drag, and style.
The last five years, in particular, have brought hell for the city's queer spaces: 2012 brought the shuttering of drag dive Deco Lounge and gay cocktail lounge Club Eight 2013 saw the demise of " infamous SoMa leather den" Kok Latino drag mecca Esta Noche closed in 2014 last year, bear bar Truck and lesbian bar the Lexington Club shut down, and this July, gay nightclub Beatbox also shut its doors. It's become an all-too-common fate for queer bars in San Francisco, where the past decade of fast and loose Silicon Valley venture capital has created a real estate crisis of unseen scope in urban America.
Since it opened in 1966, the Stud has outlasted the shuttering of at least 159 other San Francisco bars, according to the crowdsourced map " Lost Gay Bars of San Francisco." It is the rare bar that has generated a legacy and reputation far greater than the sum of its parts, which is one reason why its July 3rd announcement that it may soon close, facing a 300 percent spike in rent, was as tragic as it was portentous for the state of the city's nightlife. Results suggest HIV prevention and research should investigate immediate circumstances of the sexual encounter that may make engaging in HIV sexual risk behavior more likely.That makes it all the more remarkable that the Stud, a gay bar in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) district, has stuck around for half a century, even as it becomes harder and harder for the city's queer spaces to survive. Intimacy concerns were unrelated to either IPV or HIV risk behavior.
Circumstantial constraints fully mediate the difference attributable to psychological IPV and partially mediate the difference attributable to sexual IPV. Findings suggest that all IPV types contribute to greater participation in sexual situations with circumstantial constraints, and that psychological and sexual IPV are also associated with higher likelihood of unprotected receptive anal intercourse with a nonmonogamous partner. cities (Los Angeles, Miami, New York), this study examines how participation in difficult sexual situations with interpersonal (e.g., wanting to please partner) and circumstantial constraints (e.g., sex in partner's home) may explain associations between dimensions of intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV sexual risk behavior (unprotected anal intercourse with nonmonogamous partner). Using a probability sample of 912 Latino gay and bisexual men at bars in 3 U.S.