SAN FRANCISCO — The Stud Bar, a 50-year-old gay bar in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood threatened with closure because of a rent hike, will be sold to a collective that plans to ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Stud Bar, a 50-year-old gay bar in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood threatened with closure because of a rent hike, will be sold to a collective that plans to ...

Stud Collective members say the new location is decorated with details from the old bar, including a sign made by Stud bartenders in the 1970s. April 20, 2024. NBC Bay Area Photo/ Alyssa Goard.

Today, the ‘Stud SF’ — billed as San Francisco’s oldest gay bar — is permanently closing its location in the Soma neighborhood. The owner blames dwindling revenues because of the pandemic.

The Stud, around since 1966, is one of the country's most iconic bars and has been at its current location since 1987. It plans to hold a "drag funeral" on May 31 to honor the bar and it's legacy.

The Stud is coming back. San Francisco's oldest LGBTQ+ bar closed down after nearly 55 years in business in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it will reopen at a new home in the city.

Stud collective members pose in front of the queer bar's new home at 1123 Folsom St. in San Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023.

Paul Parkinson (center) smokes a cigarette outside The Stud Bar in San Francisco, California, on Friday, July 8, 2016. Gabrielle Lurie / Special to The Chronicle 2016.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - San Francisco's oldest gay bar The Stud announced Wednesday it's closing its doors for good due to lack of revenue as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic.