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Contents:

• INSI CHARTS, LONDON'S BIGGT GAY SNA
• A LOOK BACK ON LIVERPOOL’S 'PREMIER GAY SNA'ON THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH, THE VENUE HAD S "BEAR NECSY" DAYLIVERPOOLECHOBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYPL MCAULEYLGBTQIA+ COMMUNY REPORTER16:45, 7 JAN 2023BOOKMARKSPLASH SNA ED TO BE LOTED AT 5 FAZAKERLEY STREET. (IMAGE: ANDY TEEBAY)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!
• HISTORIC GAY SNA CHARTS SPA ANNOUNC PERMANENT CLOSURE PROMPTG OUTPOURG OF STICKY MEMORI
• MAN WHO LLAPSED LIVERPOOL GAY SNA IS NO LONGER ‘CRIL’
• GAY SNAS SYDNEY
• MAN WHO LLAPSED LIVERPOOL GAY SNA IS NO LONGER ‘CRIL’
• SNAS GAY LIVERPOOL
• GAY TURKISH BATH LIVERPOOL

INSI CHARTS, LONDON'S BIGGT GAY SNA

Charts is a gay sna that’s somehow stood firm and risted the velopers for nearly 20 years. Amidst a vastatg year for gay venu London, alarm bells were set off June when was reported that the se might make way for a luxury hotel, but thankfully for s patrons, there’s been very ltle follow-up. ‘It was found 1997, ’ says staff member Lewis, ‘when fdg a fy, welg place to be openly gay or explore your sexualy was perhaps tougher than is now.

For the uniated, a gay sna is, as our listg onle stat: ‘like a leisure centre, but wh sex’ – a place where men cise and hook up. ‘That always ma me giggle – the last thg a gay du to a sna for is a mouthful of fish. ‘Some misnceptns are fuelled by homophobia’.

Speakg of hair, you might image that wh that zty, naturel activy gog on, a gay sna would be ked lube and all manner of curly follicl. There are still a lot of gay or bisexual guys who aren’t out.

A LOOK BACK ON LIVERPOOL’S 'PREMIER GAY SNA'ON THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH, THE VENUE HAD S "BEAR NECSY" DAYLIVERPOOLECHOBOOKMARKSHARECOMMENTSNEWSBYPL MCAULEYLGBTQIA+ COMMUNY REPORTER16:45, 7 JAN 2023BOOKMARKSPLASH SNA ED TO BE LOTED AT 5 FAZAKERLEY STREET. (IMAGE: ANDY TEEBAY)THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXMORE NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBEINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.MORE NEWSLETTERSWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!WE HAVE MORE NEWSLETTERSSHOW ME SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE SEE OURPRIVACY NOTICE&TIM;GROUP 28 THE WEEKLY EMAIL BRGS YOU ALL THE LATT NEWS OM THE LGBTQ+ MUNY PL EXCLIVE TERVIEWS DIRECT TO YOUR BOXINVALID EMAILSOMETHG WENT WRONG, PLEASE TRY AGA LATER.SIGN UPNO THANKS, CLOSEWE E YOUR SIGN-UP TO PROVI NTENT WAYS YOU’VE NSENTED TO AND IMPROVE OUR UNRSTANDG OF YOU. THIS MAY CLU ADVERTS OM AND THIRD PARTI BASED ON OUR KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. MORE &TIM;GROUP 28THANK YOU FOR SUBSCRIBG!

Sadly, I fear some misnceptns are fuelled by homophobia. If was a straight swgers’ club, might be seen as cheeky, racy, darg, but bee ’s a gay spot, ’s more likely to be nsired sleazy and gross. Liverpool ed to be home to a "premier gay sna".

HISTORIC GAY SNA CHARTS SPA ANNOUNC PERMANENT CLOSURE PROMPTG OUTPOURG OF STICKY MEMORI

” The reason for the closure has remaed unknown but did have some ls than favourable reviews on Travel Gay, an onle travellg gui for the LGBTQ+ muny, wh some potg towards hygiene issu. He said: "I have been to the Splash many tim the past but I n't believe there's not gog to be a new gay sna Liverpool. " As of now, the only gay sna which remas Merseysi is the Dolph Sna Wallasey.

The legendary gay sna Charts Spa has gone to liquidatn, after sufferg fancially durg the ronavis panmic.

Charts Health Clubs opened s first gay sna Shoredch, London, 1996. Until now, the Vxhall branch of Charts Spa was the only survivg lotn, and brand self as Europe’s largt gay sna. “I would like to take this opportuny to say thank you to all our ctomers and to the gay muny as a whole for supportg and makg the pany a succs for many years.

MAN WHO LLAPSED LIVERPOOL GAY SNA IS NO LONGER ‘CRIL’

As some of you know, and mostly bee my endls postg about jobs, one of the most inic Gay Snas London I had the pleasure of workg wh sce September 2019 has unfortunately had to liquidate due to fance issu.

GAY SNAS SYDNEY

— Stt (@GayNightStand) January 25, 2021.

One former Charts Spa staff member wrote on Twter: “One of the most inic gay snas London I had the pleasure of workg wh sce September 2019 has unfortunately had to liquidate due to fance issu. “Snas such as Charts had provid a safe space for gay men pre-COVID for untls years.

A middle-aged man who llapsed at a gay sna is no longer a cril ndn.

MAN WHO LLAPSED LIVERPOOL GAY SNA IS NO LONGER ‘CRIL’

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Pipeworks Gay Sna ClubWele to Stland’s bt and largt Gay Sna club. Meanwhile the exclively male Savoy Turkish Baths at 92 Jermyn Street remaed open, ed they remaed open all night long and not surprisgly soon they beme popular wh gay men not least bee of the ‘bachelor chambers nnected to the bath’ that uld be ‘let at morate rentals’.

SNAS GAY LIVERPOOL

After the war, an attempt to survive as ongog ncerns, the remag Turkish baths London, and pecially the Savoy, started to subtly enurage their gay clientele while at the same time subdug their ternal policg. However the baths had always had a b of a gay reputatn and was to the Savoy Turkish baths that Christopher Isherwood and WH Aun took the 24 year old Benjam Brten 1937.

The Turkish baths were was one of the few plac a closeted gay actor, of which would be fair to say there would have been que a few, uld feel reasonable safe om the police.

The closeted gay actor Rock Hudson would also often vis the Jermyn Street baths perhaps after tryg the var after-shav available the Dunhill shop across the road (which is still there). His hastily arranged marriage to Phyllis Gat the secretary of his agent 1955 was a direct rult of Confintial magaze threateng to expose his hidn gay liftyle.

GAY TURKISH BATH LIVERPOOL

Ironilly, however, wasn’t until homosexualy was legalised that raids on the baths beme more mon. The New London Spy, a rather self-ncly trendy gui book for London published the late sixti, wrote about the remag Turkish baths London (sentially they meant the Savoy  Jermyn Street which of urse was jt down the road om Picdilly Circ – a pick-up lotn known gay parlance at the time as the ‘Wheel of Fortune”):. Tags: gay, gossip, Picdilly, sndal, sex, St Jam, Turkish Baths.

A prcipal sna gay Liverpool uma entrada discreta. Lolizado a apenas 5 mutos a pé do bairro gay Liverpool, o Stanley Street Quarter.