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They’re called the Ladies of AsiaSF. On a recent Sunday night, they danced and sashayed on the bar counter-turned stage of this cabaret and restaurant while the crowd clapped, snapped and whistled.

(KRON) — In 1998, Larry Hashbarger and Skip Young founded a restaurant and cabaret in San Francisco, hoping to celebrate diversity and multiculturism. Twenty-six years later, that club — AsiaSF — is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite attacks on transgender people nationwide, the dancers at AsiaSF say the club and San Francisco remain a safe sanctuary.

SAN FRANCISCO – On the corner of 9th and Howard in San Francisco's South of Market, there's a place where people take pride in living their authentic lives, even in a world where that's not always ...

(KRON) — An iconic San Francisco drag club was set to open its doors for the final time on Sunday, March 31, the International Transgender Day of Visibility. However, due to “overwhelming” support ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A groundbreaking San Francisco restaurant and performance space is getting ready to close its doors. AsiaSF, on 9th Street in the South of Market neighborhood, is known for its ...

Twenty years ago business partners Larry Hashbarger and Skip Young took a chance on opening a restaurant featuring transgender cabaret performers who doubled as waitresses at a corner space on Ninth ...

The woman in a slinky black dress with a tropical flower tucked behind her ear waits backstage, nerves steady. Surely the judges, seated at a narrow table facing the stage, don't know that most nights ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For 25 years, AsiaSF has been about an experience offering, food, music and entertainment by performers known as the ladies of AsiaSF. Mikaela Kendrick has been performing there for ...

Despite attacks on transgender people nationwide, the dancers at AsiaSF say the club and San Francisco remain a safe sanctuary. (Anita Chabria / Los Angeles Times) The first time Kenshi Westover ...