I Spent a Night One of Portland’s Last Gay Bathho

Contents:

• I SPENT A NIGHT ONE OF PORTLAND’S LAST GAY BATHHO
• GAY SNA EXPERIENC

I SPENT A NIGHT ONE OF PORTLAND’S LAST GAY BATHHO

WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. Typil gay sna scene right? And then my iend did the bt thg ever, he jt looked over and said, “Wa, are you all gay?

It was hilar, and really broke the super tense gay sexual tensn. Not so typil gay sna scene anymore.

But as a closeted teen, there was one facet of LGBT nightlife that terrified me the most: gay bathho are gay sex clubs.

GAY SNA EXPERIENC

Gay bathho started liverg. To me, gay bathho—explicly sexualized spac—beme so outsi my fort zone that I feared their parkg Portland still has two bathho, and I wanted to check one I talked to my iend T, who ed to work at Hawks PDX on Southeast Grand Avenue and is a equent flyer over at Sandy Boulevard's Steam. (Women are generally disuraged om visg gay bathho, which is dntg if you're gay wh all-female iends.

Unlike my perceptn of the dis days of gay and the height of the HIV epimic, everybody at Hawks was ut about g proper protectn.