BARchive :: Gay Love in the Haight - A Fifty-Year Bar History

Roberto Lopez had a very bad night. On August 31, 1958 he stopped by the Whoo Cares at 782 Haight and asked a couple of girls to dance. His request caused a jealous argument among the women and Mr. Lopez wound up surrounded by eight women wielding broken beer bottles on the sidewalk outside the bar.

In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled "That Was No Lady, That Was..." from September 1, 1958 the bar was described as being "frequented by many sexual degenerates, lesbians and homosexuals." Regarding the women that attacked Lopez the article says, "some of the women in the group wore men's clothing...others wore pedal pushers."