Gay Night Club On Haight Street Today
The enduring Traxx bar is the only remaining vestige of upper Haight Street's gay scene as of 2008; however Traxx is much smaller than the former I-Beam, and as a neighborhood bar (as opposed to a nightclub), it has no dance floor.
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