The Pit (San Francisco Gay Leather Bar/60's to 90's) Color:Dark Grey Heather it offered freedom

it offered freedom

it was liberation

It closed in 2005

and beautifully unreliable moral compass

and the laughter was exactly the kind of loud people pretended not to hear

The Pit (San Francisco Gay Leather Bar/60's to 90's) Color:Dark Grey Heather it offered freedomThe Pit (San Francisco, California) 1960s1990s Part of the pre Castro, pre corporate landscape of San Franciscos gay nightlife, The Pit was a classic cruising bar that served the citys leather, blue collar, and late night crowd during the years when queer spaces still lived largely in the shadows. Operating from the 1960s into the post Stonewall era, it belonged to a network of unpretentious, dimly lit bars where eye contact, jukebox music, and coded