Photos from the most anticipated San Francisco bar opening of 2024
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At around 7:30 p.m on Saturday night., the eternal voice of Sylvester rang out from a dance floor on Folsom Street. It isn't unusual to hear the patron saint of San Francisco's disco scene on any given night out, but on this occasion, "Do You Wanna Funk?" served as an apt christening for the reopening of The Stud, one of the city's most iconic queer institutions where Sylvester himself had performed nearly five decades earlier. "It's very surreal," Stud co-owner Rachel Ryan told SFGATE on the...

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