Midtowne Spa Los Angel is Up for Sale Markg Potential End to Historic Gay Bathhoe - WEHO TIMES Wt Hollywood News, Nightlife and Events

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• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• ANOTHER LA GAY BATHHOE GONE WH THE CLOSG OF FLEX
• FLEX, THE LA GAY BATHHOE, HAS RE-OPENED
• MIDTOWNE SPA LOS ANGEL IS UP FOR SALE MARKG POTENTIAL END TO HISTORIC GAY BATHHOE
• A BRIEF POLIL—AND PERSONAL—HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
• WH THE WALLS OF GAY BATHHOE LI A WORLD OF THEIR OWN
• GAY BATHHOE MELROSE SPA CLOS QUIETLY AFTER 52 YEARS
• FLEX LALOS ANGELMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECISE CLUBSON TODAYCY GUISERVICTOURSGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPFLEX LA
• NORTH HOLLYWOOD SPALOS ANGELMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECISE CLUBSON TODAYCY GUISERVICTOURSGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPNORTH HOLLYWOOD SPA

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

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

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. A signed posted last night at the entrance to the parkg lot of the gay bathhoe, which is at 4424 Melrose Ave.

He attributed that part to a cultural change, which he said is havg an impact on gay bathho across the untry. “You don’t have to be the closet as a gay man, ” he said. Others have noted the populary of so-lled “hookup” apps like Grdr and Scff, which gay men e to meet other gay men on their mobile phon for sual sexual enunters.

ANOTHER LA GAY BATHHOE GONE WH THE CLOSG OF FLEX

Bathho or spas terg to gay men have existed the Uned Stat sce at least the 1920s.

FLEX, THE LA GAY BATHHOE, HAS RE-OPENED

In a more homophobic culture, they were one of the few plac where gay men uld meet one another.

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

Advot for the closure said the bathho were plac gay men met to have unprotected sex wh strangers. Opponents said the bathho were the perfect venue for tg gay men about the nsequenc of unprotected sex and were an important gatherg place a cy where many were hostile to gay people. Los Angel has at least five other gay bathho.

Flex Spa, one of LA’s better known gay bathho, reopened Saturday afternoon after beg closed for two and a half months. Bathho where gay men met to have sex have existed the Uned Stat sce at least the 1920s.

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.

A BRIEF POLIL—AND PERSONAL—HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO

”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. 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.

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

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. 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.

GAY BATHHOE MELROSE SPA CLOS QUIETLY AFTER 52 YEARS

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. ; or the Ellwt Stereo Theater Dallas; or the Gay Paree Cema Atlanta; or the Mhaft New York Cy.

FLEX LALOS ANGELMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASMASSAGECISE CLUBSON TODAYCY GUISERVICTOURSGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPFLEX LA

There were approximately 200 gay bathho and dozens of gay porn theaters operatg the Uned Stat as the seventi drew to a close. 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. Nohels, gay bathho, sex clubs, and porn theaters did foster muny among their members.

’s ONE, or Boston’s Gay Communy News.

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