Haight Street’s Trax Bar Is Closing, But Will Reopen as ‘Mary’s on Haight’

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/06/06/haight-streets-trax-bar-is-closing-but-will-reopen-as-queer-bar-marys-on-haight/A story about a longtime neighborhood queer bar closing during Pride Month isn't great. But in the case of Upper Haight bar Trax — the last of the small neighborhood bars catering to a queer clientele that were once scattered across the city, outside of the "gayborhoods" of Castro, Polk, and SoMa — it is closing and changing hands, but the new ownership wants to honor its legacy. We noted some big Haight Street bar news this morning with the very unresolved situation with the sale of Toronado, a transaction that may be marred by premature over-promises made before any real deal was in place. But there’s an apparently much smoother bar change-o