A Brief Polil—and Personal—History of Gay Bathho ‹ Lerary Hub

Contents:

• MIDTOWNE SPA LOS ANGEL IS UP FOR SALE MARKG POTENTIAL END TO HISTORIC GAY BATHHOE
• JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• A BRIEF POLIL—AND PERSONAL—HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
• FLEX, THE LA GAY BATHHOE, HAS RE-OPENED
• ANOTHER LA GAY BATHHOE GONE WH THE CLOSG OF FLEX
• GAY BATHHOE UNR PRSURE TO END PRIVACY FOR SEXUAL ACTS
• WH THE WALLS OF GAY BATHHOE LI A WORLD OF THEIR OWN
• ENTOURAGE GAY VEGAS BATHHOE
• NORTH HOLLYWOOD SPALOS ANGELMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECISE CLUBSON TODAYCY GUISERVICTOURSGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPNORTH HOLLYWOOD SPA

MIDTOWNE SPA LOS ANGEL IS UP FOR SALE MARKG POTENTIAL END TO HISTORIC GAY BATHHOE

" (Gay L. The Midtowne Spa Los Angel property, home to the historic sex bathhoe terg to gay, bisexual, and men who have sex wh men (MSM) went up for sale earlier this month.

They have adult movie channels, two gay and one Straight/Bisexual and 24 hour secured parkg garage right next door to the club.

”The ctomer also creds Midtowne for promotg a clean (as possible) environment and also providg std ttg and ee unselg, “It’s not jt about STD/AIDS, but the unselors also will talk to people, like gay people jt g out, which is so important for some people who may be reluctant to go to other plac, ” he said. Kev Maxen is gay. No NFL ach had ever publicly e out as gay, so Maxen, an assistant strength and ndng ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, kept quiet about his sexual that ma him angry — at himself.

JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

A BRIEF POLIL—AND PERSONAL—HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO

Former San Francis 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers beme the NFL’s first ach to e out as gay 2017.

Acrdg to the article, Maxen ma his cisn to do so last year and reached out for advice om Carl Nassib, who 2021 beme the NFL’s first out gay active player as a member of the Las Vegas was Nassib who put Maxen ntact wh Outsports.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

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

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

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

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

FLEX, THE LA GAY BATHHOE, HAS RE-OPENED

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Cozy apartments, private rooms and amazg hom: be weled by the gay muny over 200 untri.

Apartments, rooms, hom: be weled by the gay muny. My first experience at a gay bathhoe took place D. I met a handsome Black man wh dreadlocks a gay bar lled The Fireplace on the edge of Dupont Circle, and after a few rounds of drks, we left to go have sex only to disver that neher of uld take the actn back to where we lived.

ANOTHER LA GAY BATHHOE GONE WH THE CLOSG OF FLEX

The vibe uld be ls aggrsive there than at gay dance clubs like Badlands or Chaos, and the entry fee was ually cheaper than a night of drks at gay bars such as Mr. But, lookg back over the past half century, sex has been the fixatn of vol nservativ, who never knew the genue value of gay bathho, sex clubs, or porn theaters.

So, by the late 1970s, you uld roll your ey at the opponents of gay sexual liberatn as you walked to the Roman Holiday Spa Los Angel; or the Nob Hill Theater San Francis; or Man’s Country Chigo; or the Olympic Baths Washgton, D.

GAY BATHHOE UNR PRSURE TO END PRIVACY FOR SEXUAL ACTS

; or the Ellwt Stereo Theater Dallas; or the Gay Paree Cema Atlanta; or the Mhaft New York Cy. There were approximately 200 gay bathho and dozens of gay porn theaters operatg the Uned Stat as the seventi drew to a close.

WH THE WALLS OF GAY BATHHOE LI A WORLD OF THEIR OWN

Mayors passed laws, cy uncils approved ordanc, and school boards set polici that set back the Gay Rights movement.

And their narrative about gay bathho and other plac acmodatg to queer sex still endur.

Here’s how the distorted story go: gay bathho, sex clubs, and porn theaters had no reemg social value and were purely an outgrowth of the immoral, dg-fueled, hedonistic liftyle of queer men, and closg the lewd dwellgs durg the AIDS crisis the 1980s was the pnt cisn.

ENTOURAGE GAY VEGAS BATHHOE

Nohels, gay bathho, sex clubs, and porn theaters did foster muny among their members. ’s ONE, or Boston’s Gay Communy News. That were hospable to queer ctomers, and specialty talogu like Vagabond, which discretely livered “gay-themed” albums, books, and magaz.

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The rmatn the publitns kept queer people rmed, nnected, and, whout a doubt, safe om vlent homophob. Sex clubs, XXX theaters, and bathho also addrsed a pervasive lonels among gay men that was more than sexual.

San Francis’s Nob Hill Theater opened s doors for Gay Rights activists to hold strategy meetgs durg the theater’s off hours on Sunday morngs. At first, most polil lears seemed que willg to stand back and silently watch the unchecked spread of a adly vis layg waste primarily to the homosexual populatn. Then when spurred to actn, a host of elected officials ed the public health crisis as a pretense to enact measur that had long been on their polil wish list—for stance, closg the gay bathho, sex clubs, and porn theaters, which was amed as a public health measure.

I’ve raised this topic wh dozens of queer people across generatns, and a staggerg number nsir a matter of mon knowledge that shuttg down the gay bathho, sex clubs, and porn theaters was a necsary and effective policy unr the circumstanc. As public health workers argued at the time 1980s, keepg the gay bathhoe, sex clubs, and porn theaters open would provi them wh plac to te people about HIV and AIDS, to tt people for HIV and AIDS, and to offer people greater accs to medil treatment for HIV and AIDS.