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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
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL
• GAY BATHHO NEAR ME
• NEW ORLEANS GAY MAP
• GAY BATHHO WERE BARELY SURVIVG. AND THEN ME COVID-19.
• VALLEY’S GAY BATHHO VOW FIGHT TO STAY OPEN
• FLEX, THE LA GAY BATHHOE, HAS RE-OPENED
• GAY USA

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

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.

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

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. 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.

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. 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. 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. There were approximately 200 gay bathho and dozens of gay porn theaters operatg the Uned Stat as the seventi drew to a close.

A BRIEF POLIL—AND PERSONAL—HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO

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

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. That were hospable to queer ctomers, and specialty talogu like Vagabond, which discretely livered “gay-themed” albums, books, and magaz. 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.

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

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. My purpose unrsrg the value of gay bathho, sex clubs, and porn theaters and retracg the polil motivatns for closg so many of them down durg the AIDS crisis this say and my novel, My Government Means to Kill Me, isn’t simply an exercise explorg history.

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

When the 30-year-old bathhoe and sna Eros left ’s old home on Market Street near the Castro December 2021, the cy's only remag gay sex club said they had a new home led up. Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told Michael Stto @ HoopsHype.

Reportg on tra talks surroundg Jam Harn and how they uld affect Joel Embiid and PJ Tucker, not on the Lakers, Warrrs, Bucks, and Mavericks, pl ee agency updat on Rudy Gay, Edmond Sumner, and more on @hoopshype. The Oklahoma Cy Thunr has signed forward Jack Whe to a multi-year ntract and waived forward Rudy Gay, was announced today by Executive Vice Print and General Manager Sam Prti. In a st-cuttg move, the Atlanta Hawks are tradg guard TyTy Washgton Jr., and forwards Usman Gaba, Rudy Gay and a future send-round pick to the Oklahoma Cy Thunr for Patty Mills, sourc told ESPN on Saturday.

THE BT GAY BARS AND CLUBS LOS ANGEL

“There’s no greater reward than dog for the ltle Black gay boy who has someone to look up to now bee we didn’t have those people to look up to, ” says Phipps, reuntg a movg past experience where a preteen boy lled the duo his hero after seeg them perform.

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▷About gay bathhoWhen you enter the lotn of gay bathho, we'll show you the bt rults wh shortt distance, high sre or maximum search volume. (KABC) -- The Temecula Valley school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus sla gay rights lear Harvey Milk.

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"Unr the headg 'Protts, ' one paragraph discs gay rights California and unr the headg 'Court Cas, ' there are two paragraphs that discs the urt s that allowed gay marriage California. "She said a supplemental rource lists Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist and polician who was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.

GAY BATHHO WERE BARELY SURVIVG. AND THEN ME COVID-19.

Milk was believed to be the first openly gay person elected to public office board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the creatn procs and makg ments attackg Milk. "The meetg me jt days after the board voted for a send time to block social studi curriculum that mentned issue first blew up at a meetg last month, when the school board majory qutned whether Milk, who was the first openly gay man to hold public office the state of California, should be clud supplemental materials when teachg civil rights to 4th gra ncern revolv around reports that Milk, when his 30s, had a relatnship wh a 16-year-old boy.

VALLEY’S GAY BATHHO VOW FIGHT TO STAY OPEN

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You n lote a venue, filter your search and get more tailed HotelsHotelsBarsDance ClubsMassageCy GuiGay WeddgsGay MapHotelsBarDance ClubMassageHave we got somethg wrong? To the untraed eye, gay bathho like Steamworks are mere ns of iquy, where taps on the bathroom floor, a lgerg glance, or a door ajar says much more than you’d expect; but to the iated and the experienced, they are ed that, but also so much more. Supreme Court cisn strikg down homophobic anti-sodomy laws have certaly ma safer and actually legal to seek out same-sex hookups.

But even still, bathho have historilly provid a certa amount of safety and ease to the gay male muny that n’t be nied. While gay sex was an obv and signifint part of bathho, the greater nversatn about them has largely ignored the civic good also unrtaken at the spac. Emjay Rawls, who worked at Steamworks om November 2015 to October 2018 and lls the bt job she’s ever had, says that the bathhoe often sponsors events the muny at popular gay bars Boystown, cludg Hydrate, Rose’s Tavern, and Sitrack.

FLEX, THE LA GAY BATHHOE, HAS RE-OPENED

Lol gay historian Owen Keehnen, who -wrote wh Rear publisher Tracy Baim a bgraphy of Chuck Renslow, says Man’s Country at one pot boasted a leather shop and a shop sellg wtern wear, alongsi s gym, whirlpool, glory hol, and mic hall. In an say on his webse, “Brotherhood of the Whe Towel, ” Keehnen also scribed how Man’s Country brought popular performers wh a gay cult followg, cludg Boy Gee, the Village People, and Dive.

But spe the historic good the spac have done, for some gay people like Michael Gifford, who loaned a salvaged Man’s Country glory hole to the Leather Archiv & Mm June 2019, bathho are some ways a microsm of some of the most ser problems facg the muny, namely chemsex—or sex unr the fluence of dgs—and blurred l of nsent. Bathho the San Fernando Valley that attract homosexuals will e all legal means to rema open, the head of the Los Angel County Bath Owners said Friday, as unty officials planned closer scty of the spas and nsired closg them light of the spread of AIDS.

Natnal and lol health officials have exprsed ncern that spas equented by homosexuals, many of which functn as sex clubs, have accelerated the spread of of Sept. Wilfong and others said that closg the baths would drive those who sired sual sex wh other men to public parks and other plac ls safe and private than the gay clubs. “If they n get away wh takg the bathho away, then the gay bars will be next, ” Wilfong said, “and then the adult bookstor.

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Wilfong and other owners said that they felt they were beg sgled out for special scty bee they serve homosexuals. “The bathhoe has bee the sacrificial lamb, ” Goulet spa owners’ group was formed March, partly rponse to the dramatic cle patronage of the baths sce AIDS emerged as a major health ncern of the homosexual muny, Wilfong said.