Esta Noche was founded by two openly gay community members, Anthony Lopez and Manuel Quijano. It is historically placed as the first gay Latino gay bar, and it has significance due to the discrimination LGBT people of color faced in traditionally popular white gay bars especially in the Castro. LGBT people of color often experienced racial slurs, microaggressions, and fetishization as the bars where LGBT people were able to socialize and party were mostly dominated by white men. LGBT people of color were often asked to show multiple forms of identification in these spaces, leading to the creation of Esta Noche. Latino men that would be in those spaces would experience racist remarks as well as being overly fetishized for their culture. The co-founder of the group Gay American Indians (GAI)