Catacombs (sex club)
Gay and lesbian fisting club in San Francisco, California From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Catacombs was a gay and lesbian S/M leather fisting club which operated from 1975 to 1981 in the Mission District/Liberty Hill Historic District and from 1982 to 1984 in the South of Market area of San Francisco. It was the most famous fisting club in the world.[1] The founder and owner was Steve McEachern. The location was semi-secret and admission was by referral only. It was originally a gay men's club, but Cynthia Slater persuaded the management to open up to lesbians.[2] Among the patrons was Patrick Califia, known then as Pat Califia.[3] The Catacombs has been exhaustively described by sexual anthropologist Gayle Rubin,[4] who calls it "exemplary" in its attempts to deal with the AIDS crisis which would eventually lead to its closure.[5] Patrick Moore devotes a chapter to it in his Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality.[6] Sex educator Carol Queen called it "the place to be seen and to play at during the 1980s."[7]
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| General information | |
| Type | Sex Club |
| Location | SoMa, San Francisco, California |
| Opened | 1975 |
| Relocated | 1982 |
| Closed | 1984 |
| Owner | Steve McEachern |
| Known for | Fisting |
The San Francisco South of Market Leather History Alley, opened in 2017, honors leather culture and community members including McEachern.[8][9]
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