He had a pierced ear and a pierced nostril with a chain going between the two. There was a bar across from the Stud that was not very popular and didn’t last long and would later be replaced by a restaurant called Hamburger Mary’s and the bartender there was very Cockettish.
People openly smoked pot in the bars back then. We also would visit other bars along Folsom such as the Ramrod. I wasn’t 21 but got in easily by just walking past the doorman without giving them eye contact. We often went to The Stud on Folsom street and danced. During the period of living on Shotwell, Jim and I were getting along pretty well but we were young gay men and it was the height of the sexual revolution so we were certainly not going to be left out of that.
