San Fransisco is known to be one of the friendliest gay cities in the U.S.  They have many attractions, including clubs, shows, and festivals.  Most would say that San Fransisco would be a great Gay Vacation Getaway.  What is your view?  Please leave a comment and let others know from your personal experience.

Voted Best Gay-Friendly Hotel in San Fransisco:

W Hotel, San Francisco
You can't ask for a closer location to the Moscone Convention Center than this W outpost in the SoMa Art District. The property offers a responsive, on-site concierge and rooms with an extensive pillow menu, plus bright work desks, minibars, iPod docks, 24-hour room service, and Wi-Fi. Add the 24-hour fitness center, heated lap pool, 5,000-square-foot Bliss Spa, and a restaurant with an award-winning wine list, and this becomes a stellar choice for the corporate crowd.

Gay/Lesbian Night Life

The Mix

4086 18th St., San Francisco CA 94114; Tel. 415.431.8616

The Mix offers a sense of warm familiarity as the Castro’s “neighborhood bar.” In addition to a selection of beers, cocktails, pool tables and friendly bartenders, patrons will also enjoy the Mix’s jukebox and open-air back patio. It’s a great spot for bonding over a pitcher with old friends or branching out and making new ones.

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The Edge

1270 Valencia St., San Francisco CA 94110; Tel. 415.285.1200

The Edge is a divey corner neighborhood stop in the Castro with friendly bartenders and a happy hour that starts at noon and lasts until 7pm. Affordable drinks aren’t the only incentive to head to the Edge—its tagline promises “Strong Drinks, Low Lights, Men.”

Blackbird Bar

2124 Market St., San Francisco CA 94114; Tel. 415.503.0630

The Blackbird offers visitors a classy night out with local wines, artisanal beers, craft cocktails and an unpretentious attitude. Sip on drinks such as the Farmer’s Daughter or Old Boy while enjoying feature artists.

Twin Peaks Tavern

401 Castro Street (at Market), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.864.9470

Older men, younger men. Guess who's buying? A Moroccan-pillowed triangular space with plate glass windows and a bar stocked with casual elegance and casual encounters. Located conveniently on Market and Castro, at the foot of the San Francisco gay bar scene.

The Cafe

2367 Market St (at Castro), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.861.3846

No cover. Strong drinks. Super-gay top 40 dance mixes that bring scraggly-haired lesbians and boys who buy their youth at the tanning salon. It doesn't get much more Castro than this.

440 Castro

440 Castro St (at 18th St.), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.621.8732

Yes, that leather-clad San Francisco silver fox with an obscenely prominent package is, as you might have suspected, tugging at his chaps for you.

Endup

Sixth St. & Harrison, San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.357.0827

There ain't no party / like a West Coast party / 'cause a West Coast party / don't stop. For over 25 years, the Endup has kept the San Francisco nightlife torch alive with its all day all night weekend dance-a-thons. The Sunday afternoon gay dance is legendary.

Kimo's

1351 Polk (at Pine), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.885.4535

Tourists looking for more family-friendly San Francisco drag shows should stick to Beach Blanket Babylon. Kimo's ladies are hard-core, hard-livin' and workin' hard for their money. Still, expect a fair share of Celine, Cher and Stevie Nicks.

The Lexington Club

3464 19th St., San Francisco CA 94110; Tel. 415.863.2052

While the menfolk have their run of nearly 30 San Francisco gay bars, lesbians are often limited to also-ran club nights. Luckily, San Francisco has the Lexington Club -- the only lesbian bar in San Francisco to boast and attract a wombyn-on-wombyn clientele 7 nights a week. It's got a pool table, some pretty ladies and a rough hewn style that befits the rag-tag city that begat it.

Martuni's

4 Valencia St. (at Market), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.241.0205

Don't let this San Francisco gay bar's funereal front, with its large and lilied flower arrangement, get you down. Have a double martini (that's the only size they come in here) and settle into the back room where a piano man and his singing muse will gather the crowd for a bittersweet rendition of "The Man Who Got Away." Ain't it the truth, ain't it the truth.

Mint Karaoke Lounge

1942 Market (at Duboce), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.626.4726

Don't mess with the Mint. While Friday nights are generally packed with post-work parties and birthdays, most nights the performances can bring down the house. Think American Idol, but sponsored by the vodka industry.

The Phone Booth

1398 South Van Ness (at 25th St), San Francisco CA; Tel 415.648.4683

Intellectual ennui and surges of testosterone mix wildly at this refurbished Mission hang out. The jukebox is full of Nirvana, Weezer and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the patrons are full of cold San Francisco Anchor Steam. Cute boys, cute girls, fluid sexuality.

The Pilsner Inn

225 Church St (at Market), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.621.7058

This San Francisco gay bar is the default starting and ending point of any good tour of the Castro. Ring-necked collars belly (or perhaps, ab up), to this no nonsense bar with a cruisey back patio.

The Stud

399 Ninth St. (at Harrison), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.252.7883

Fawn at singing trannys, sweat to swirling beats and chug that rum and Coke. The Stud changes parties nightly but is always on target. Crowds of devilishly cute boys, kick ass ladies and nip-and-tuck gendernauts drink 'til blackout in this South of Market home.

Trax

1437 Haight (at Ashbury), San Francisco CA; Tel. 415.864.4213

The Haight isn't so far from the Castro as one would think from their disparate cultures. Trax is a good honest gay bar with a little mish mash of hipster, troll, nice guy and heavy-handed bartender. Party nights attract a fitter, faster crowd, but most nights you can count on a Bud Light, free popcorn and some mighty fine tv-watching.

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