Why D.C.'s Gay Bathhoe Crew Club Endur the Age of Grdr - Washgton Cy Paper

Contents:

• WHY D.C.’S GAY BATHHOE CREW CLUB ENDUR THE AGE OF GRDR
• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• GAY SOCIAL CLUB IN D.C. RAISES HEALTH CONCERNS
• WASHGTON DC GAY SNAS
• CREW CLUB TO CLOSE AFTER 25 YEARS SERVG DC’S GAY MUNY
• GAY WASHGTON DC

WHY D.C.’S GAY BATHHOE CREW CLUB ENDUR THE AGE OF GRDR

On a recent Tuday night, when locker and room pric were half off, the gay men’s health spa teemed wh butts and bears—the hairy, human kd. Sce 1995, the Crew Club has provid gay men a sanctuary to work out, relax, and nverse, formg new relatnships face-to-face. “‘What happens at the Crew Club stays at the Crew Club’ is a , ” says William, who has also vised gay bathho Florida, California, Seattle, Philalphia, New Orleans, and Chigo.

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

“If you went there enough, you’ll fd someone: someone on cy uncil or ernment, a ngrsman, a state reprentative, a nice Republin who hat gay people on TV but is suckg ck the Crew Club, ” William says, clg to offer nam. Condoms are available throughout the buildg, and Whman-Walker Health—the nearby clic that built s brand assistg gay men, many of whom lived wh HIV/AIDS or were at the hight risk of ntractg the vis and other sexually-transmted fectns—has a regular table the lounge area, where staff n nnect patrons wh HIV and STI ttg.

Yet om s earlit days, the Crew Club has had to bat stigma, both om wh and outsi of the gay muny.

A few weeks after opened, The Washgton Post ran a ont-page article unr the headle “Gay Social Club D. “Gay people still pass judgment if you go there, ” William not.

GAY SOCIAL CLUB IN D.C. RAISES HEALTH CONCERNS

Dpe this, bathho emerged as havens for gay men to be themselv, shield om the discrimatn and opprsn of heterosexual society.

The name is at once a pun on gay “cisg” and “crew cuts, ” Allen not, and evok a D. This week, the 61-year-old owner flew up om his part-time home Wilton Manors, Florida—a longtime gay village—to oversee Pri preparatns. Other gay bathho D.

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CREW CLUB TO CLOSE AFTER 25 YEARS SERVG DC’S GAY MUNY

Crew Club Washgton DC is a gay sna & men’s only club DC, near Logan Circle. The Crew Club, which has operated as a gym, sna and bathhoe for gay men the natn’s pal for 25 years, will close s doors for good at s Logan Circle area lotn on Febary 29, acrdg to s founr and -owner DC Allen. The team began 1991 wh eight gay nners lookg for a cross-trag activy, some old rented equipment, and a lot of enthiasm.

The area is also known for s ncentratn of bars, nightclubs, gay venu and strip jots – all of which are nsired sful Islam. It’s billed as DC’s last gay bathhoe and ’s a good neighborhood, along the trendy 14th St.

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A gay men's social club where the lights are low and patrons mt leave their cloth lockers has opened near downtown Washgton, revivg a dispute over public health and civil rights the era of AIDS. Allen, says he has created a clean, safe space for gay men to lift weights, shoot pool, get a tan, sip sodas and pick up ndoms and lsons on how to avoid AIDS. Gay men for several years, might be creasg aga, particularly among men too young to have been sobered by watchg iends die.

But lol clics that treat sexually transmted diseas have noticed a recent crease s of rectal gonorrhea among gay men, pecially young on, after a -long cle. Those clu uld signify that the lol AIDS epimic, spreadg most rapidly durg the last few years among traveno dg ers and their sex partners, might be veerg back to the gay populatn. Even wh the gay muny, opn over the club is spl.

" Bathho have played an important role for gay muni.

Datg to the public baths and snas of the late 19th and early 20th centuri, they proliferated durg the 1960s and '70s as se and symbol of gay liberatn at a time when homosexual sex remaed illegal many ci, cludg Washgton. "You got a key on a wristband, so all night long you heard the tklg of keys, " said Frank Kameny, 69, one of the District's earlit gay activists.

" When rearchers disvered that AIDS uld be transmted through sexual ntact, gay muni veloped a "gigantic nflict" over the baths, said Buzz Bense, an AIDS tor who recently opened Club Eros -- the Center for Safe Sex San Francis. Some recent studi suggt that men who have homosexual sex e ndoms more often bathho and sex clubs than they do at home, parks or other settgs.