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- A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
- GAY BATHHO NEAR ME
- GAY PUGLIA | ONLY MEN SNA, CEGLIE MSAPI
- NEW YORK CY GAY SNAS AND BATHHO
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A place of sexual liberatn, social ease wh beg gay and muny buildg. 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.
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