Aunt Charlie's has always been kind of an iconic bar for me. I've been coming here since the late 1990s, and it has always functioned as something of a litmus test: if I bring my out-of-town guests ...

On the sidewalk outside Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, bar manager Joe Mattheisen points out a dozen spots that used to be part of the Tenderloin’s queer corridor. The Blue and Gold was across the street, ...

Joe Mattheisen remembers the golden age of Tenderloin gay bars. “When I first started working here, this whole area was bars,” says the manager of Aunt Charlie’s on Turk Street, which opened in 1987. ...

When was the last time you thought to yourself that you were happy to be standing on aged carpet in a dive bar? Well, everyone who set foot in Aunt Charlie’s last Friday afternoon seemed to have that ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Before the Castro was covered in rainbow flags, downtown San Francisco was the center of the city's LGBTQ+ scene. Aunt Charlie's Lounge Manager Joseph Mattheisen has tended ...

With nearly $70,000 raised in a crowd-funding effort in just five days, fans and supporters of Aunt Charlie’s Lounge in the Tenderloin are feeling optimistic that the beloved scrappy San Francisco ...

Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the longstanding drag dive in the Tenderloin, is at risk of going out of business by August, Hoodline reports. Originally founded in 1987, when it was just one of many LGBTQ ...

Aunt Charlie’s, a narrow hallway of a bar on Turk Street, has long been a venue and refuge of critical importance to San Francisco drag queens and the broader queer community. Now one of the longest ...

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Aunt Charlie's, a classic of sleazy downtown glamour. This stall-size bar is where it's at for the underground club kids of today, but it also attracts enough unique Tenderloin locals and curious.