Remember that liquor licenses are controlled by the ABC, which is a statewide bureaucracy based out of Sacramento. Sometimes the enforcement policies of the SF authorities and the ABC diverge.
If the ABC wants to punish you, they send their own undercover agents into your bar until they see something they can write a citation for. In the case of DNA's license suspension a few years back they found some allegedly-too-raunchy patron behavior at a gay event. So it's probably not accurate to say that the ABC was punishing them for doing gay events, but they may use those events as opportunities for selective enforcement. The SFPD probably wouldn't risk the local firestorm by doing that. The ABC doesn't have to care.
This isn't relavent to the issue at hand because we're not talking about {California, ABC, Liquor License} this is {San Francisco, SFPD, Entertainment Permit}. Different set of people, different priorities.
If the ABC wants to punish you, they send their own undercover agents into your bar until they see something they can write a citation for. In the case of DNA's license suspension a few years back they found some allegedly-too-raunchy patron behavior at a gay event. So it's probably not accurate to say that the ABC was punishing them for doing gay events, but they may use those events as opportunities for selective enforcement. The SFPD probably wouldn't risk the local firestorm by doing that. The ABC doesn't have to care.
This isn't relavent to the issue at hand because we're not talking about {California, ABC, Liquor License} this is {San Francisco, SFPD, Entertainment Permit}. Different set of people, different priorities.