As it marks its reopening this weekend with a free art event open to the public, a queer social club in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district is planning to offer daytime access to nonmembers starting June 1.
Up until now The Academy, housed in a historic gay bar space at 2166 Market Street, has largely only been accessible to its paying members and their guests since it opened May 31, 2017.
The business, impacted by the COVID pandemic over the last year, has only been able to allow its members very limited use of its facilities, in particular its outdoor patio space.
In September, it welcomed barber David Hone as a tenant due to the closure of nearby barbershop Male Image where he had long worked.