A post shared by White Horse Bar (@whitehorsebar)The White Horse Inn in Oakland, California, claims to be the oldest, continually operating gay bar in the US.
It was officially opened in 1933 and has been attracting gay custom since around that time. In fact, its history might go back even further, but records were not kept during Prohibition.It began to get a word-of-mouth reputation as someone for queer people to meet in the 1940s, although to the general public, it presented itself as just another bar.
Regulars of yore remember a surprisingly classy venue, more like a private club or lounge than the dive bar they may have first been expecting.