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GAY HOTELS ON MISTERB&B
WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. Gay hotels selected by misterb&b.
A gay hotel is a hotel, guthoe, rort or B&B which accepts gay guts eher exclively or the ma. Gay-iendly hotels selected by misterb&b.
THE GAY BATHHOE FIRE OF 1977
To select and signate the gay-iendly hotels, we had to verify their welg attu and acceptance of the LGBTQ muny.
• Further we agree to challenge homophobic and transphobic behavr and ensure a posive and welg environment for our guts. Nohels, we ntue to ensure hotels wh a history of homophobic behavr or homophobic owners are not listed on misterb&b. M., ne men — trapped si a buildg wh blocked-up wdows and no fire p — would not make out years after Stonewall, the tragedy at the Everard Baths — never vtigated as anythg but an accintal mattrs fire — marked the begng of the end of a brief, exuberant heyday of New York Cy gay life that was able to thrive part bee of cheap real tate and a cy ernment that was willg to look the other way when me to, say, S&M clubs like the Mhaft the Meatpackg District (drs clud no logne).
BLUE MOON RORT FOR GAY MEN
But even as the '70s New York were a relatively open, excg time to be a gay man New York — pri paras, gay bars and clubs proliferatg, a mastream weekly gay newspaper, a gay rights prott at the 1976 Democratic Natnal Conventn New York — beg openly gay, whether on the street or the workplace, still me wh dangers.
The bathhoe had long been an anonymo space where gay men uld be themselv whout shame — but the fire at the Everard rerced the ia for many queer men that the few spac they thought were tly their own weren't always safe.
Everard Baths was not jt any gay bathhoe; the wrer Michael Rumaker, his acunt of gog to the baths (A Day and a Night at the Baths) for the first time the wter of 1977, lled Everard "the most venerable, loathed, and affectnately teemed baths all of New York Cy.