Below, SFist's tried and true favorites, in honor of Pride. Over the last couple of years, gay nightlife has gotten a jolt of fresh energy thanks to a couple of new venues, and the off-playa work of a couple of popular Burning Man camps, and now, so long as you aren't trying to leave the Castro on Mondays or Tuesdays, there's pretty much always somewhere lively and cool to shake your ass and get wasted. (especially as a percentage of the overall population here), and we're a weekend mecca for the rest of the gay Bay Area too. But San Francisco is, after all, one of the gay centers of the universe, with a dense and diverse homo population that rivals any major city in the U.S. It's Pride Week, and with that comes a whole bevy of once-a-year parties to fill the dance cards of every LGBT party kid in town.
