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Contents:

• A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
• WHAT I LEARNED OM TTG MEN FOR HIV AT GAY BATHHO
• A BRIEF POLIL—AND PERSONAL—HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• DID CLOSG NEW YORK CY BATHHO THE 1980S STRIP DIGNY OM GAY MEN?
• GAY BATHHO
• SETTG THE SPACE FOR SEX: ARCHECTURE, SIRE AND HEALTH ISSU GAY BATHHO
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO

Ever wonred what go on a gay bathhoe or a gay sna?

You might thk that gay bathho are part of our queer history – sure, eful for guys to nnect each other before the ter was vented, but a b rndant now that we have hook-up apps, right? It’s a homosocial space, a sexual environment, and provis a different type of hook-up experience.

WHAT I LEARNED OM TTG MEN FOR HIV AT GAY BATHHO

If you’ve never been to a gay bathhoe or sna before, you might have a prenceptn that ’s only olr guys that go there, or guys that you wouldn’t fd attractive. Most of the rooms are small, but n be equipped wh a TV (displayg gay porn) or large mirrors. Many people liken them to hnted ho bee of the dark lightg, horrible stench, and theme rooms which clu maz, slg rooms (for sadistic eaks), glory hol, doctors offic, and creepy old men lurkg around who look like sex Gay teen: I'm gog to a bath hoe for the first time..

I'm gonna suck and get fucked by as many hot men as I Gay man: Noooo, don't go there. This type of mic is typilly played for gays, a bath hoe environment.

A BRIEF POLIL—AND PERSONAL—HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO

It was a ld Febary morng, 118 years ago this month, when New York Cy police nducted their first rerd raid on a gay bathhoe. This marked the first rerd time that police raid a gay bathhoe Ameri, but certaly wasn’t the last. The tradn of gay male bathg spac dat back to the 15th century — and more genr-ntral bathg is rerd as early as 6 BC.

GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

In the late 1400s, police Florence, Italy, monored homosexual activy and “spect boys” at bathho. As stutns, bathho gaed populary the last century, part due to growg gay populatns lackg plac where they uld publicly gather. The risks of police raids terred some men om steppg to a gay bathhoe, but ultimately the need for timate pannship outweighed the danger posed by police.

DID CLOSG NEW YORK CY BATHHO THE 1980S STRIP DIGNY OM GAY MEN?

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Dpe survivg 100 years of police harassment, though, the gay bathho of New York Cy uldn’t survive the homophobia of Mayor Ed Koch, who shut most of them down durg the HIV epimic.

GAY BATHHO

Followg World War II, a more robt unrground gay culture began to emerge, spurred part by the pannship that queer soldiers found the ary. Gay bathho weren’t jt plac to have sex.

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What did you thk of our quick lson gay bathhoe history? An extraordary, glimpse to the pre-AIDS gay sexual culture, "The Fairoaks Baths" is an exhib of Polaroids taken by Frank Melleno durg the sprg and summer of 1978 at the Fairoaks Hotel, a San Francis bathhoe.

SETTG THE SPACE FOR SEX: ARCHECTURE, SIRE AND HEALTH ISSU GAY BATHHO

There is no other llectn of photographs that so clearly visualiz this perd bathhoe imag and more will be on display at the Llie-Lohman Prce Street Project Space (tails below) and also clud are imag om the Fairoaks Pri Para float om that same Fairoaks Baths:Photographs by Frank MellenoPolaroids om a San Francis bathhoe 1978Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art (Prce Street Project Space)127-B Prce StreetNew York, NY 10012July 12-13, Openg receptn July 11, 6-8 p. The gay revolutn was full flower -- sexy, charged wh self, admtg no shadows.

GAY MOSW · CY GUI

He'd been a member of the '70s gay mune that went on to purchase and nvert a fad but wonrfully tact Victorian apartment buildg on the edge of a black ghetto to a gay bathhoe.

It lerally stood alone, at the tersectn of Oak and Steer streets, perched on a hill overlookg the lower Hay Valley district; an urban patch not yet gentrified by the cy's swellg ti of gay Boomers and some distance om the neighborhoods they typilly Fairoaks' existence was short-lived -- 1977 to 1979 -- but fondly relled by s patrons for a number of thgs. For one, was a racially clive place for gay men to have sex, unlike some of the cy's hot spots that were ls welg of people of lor.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Members of the groups were enuraged by the offer of a ee locker to spend the eveng and this helped foster a more faiar and timate atmosphere than was mon other gay bathho of the era.

Many of those men, like a great number of Fairoaks patrons, are no longer alive -- taken by the plague of AIDS that would cimate the cy's gay populatn jt another few a strg of black pearls, San Francis's bathho adorned the cy wh a touch of louche glamour before they were officially closed October 1984. Wh a historian's eye and gay activist's zeal, he ptured the agile, fun, and always fantastic life the Fairoaks Hotel.