Protests continued at various filming sites throughout San Francisco - some ending in arrests - until the 'Basic Instinct' film crew left for Los Angeles."
Gay bar shooting inside the bar movie#
The place was infamously used by director Paul Verhoeven in 1991 as a shooting location for the movie Basic Instinct, standing in for one of the San Francisco LGBTQ bars where protagonist Michael Douglas was investigating bisexual murder suspect Sharon Stone.Īs the Facebook group Preserving LGBT Historic Sites In Northern California writes, "Many LGBTQ groups objected to the movie's homophobic and misogynistic themes," and, "On April 10, 1991, dozens of members of the Queer Nation sister group Labia picketed in front of Rawhide II because the bar's owner, Ray Chalker, allowed the first scenes of the movie to be filmed there. The SoMa building was once home to a country-western gay bar called Rawhide 2 - the "2" was because there was already a bar called Rawhide in Los Angeles when it opened. They're selling the fully entitled property for a loss, listing it at $3.25 million. Plans were drawn up and approved for a 20-unit condo development in 2019, but it appears the owners now want to cash out. Socketsite caught the new listing for the building at 280 7th Street, which was last purchased in 2016 for $4.125 million. A building that housed a longtime gay bar devoted to country music in SF's SoMa District, which was proposed for redevelopment as both a nightclub and a condo building going back a decade, has hit the market again at a reduced price.