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Contents:

• I SPENT A NIGHT ONE OF PORTLAND’S LAST GAY BATHHO
• GAY BATHHO NEAR ME
• MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE
• THREAD: SOME GAY DU TRIED TO PORK ME AT A BATH HOE
• A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
• GAY BATHHOE
• GAY SNA EXPERIENC
• GAY SNA ETIQUETTE

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

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GAY BATHHO NEAR ME

It was hilar, and really broke the super tense gay sexual tensn. Not so typil gay sna scene anymore. Chigo's olst gay bathhoe closed forever on New Year's Day 2018.

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MY NIGHT A GAY BATHHOE

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Some gay du tried to pork me at a bath hoe. 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.

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

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. 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. RELATED | 10 Thgs I Learned From Workg a Gay Bathhoe.

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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. 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 SNA EXPERIENC

Gay bathho weren’t jt plac to have sex.

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GAY SNA ETIQUETTE

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