The Towleroad blog has a great post that reviss New York’s first rerd anti-gay raid on the Ariston Baths Manhattan 1903. And though I was never an aficnado of the Bathhoe scene, the gay history buff me cid to do some rearch and even I was a b surprised by the strong
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HOW PTOWN GOT SO GAY, GAY, GAY
Ptown wasn't always gay, but was pretty wild back the day. So wild, the rints weren't allowed to own land for over 150 years. * charles demuth gay *
Demuth was an openly gay artist based Lanster, Pennsylvania (USA).
Yet, Demuth also pated more homoerotic works of art set bathho and other accepted homosocial environments. ” In Speakg for Vice: Homosexualy the Art of Charl Demuth, Marsn Hartley and the First Amerin Avante-gar, 98-100. He also picted early 20th century Amerin gay subculture evotive, private waterlor patgs.
A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
November 11, 1883 - Charl Demuth: "Patgs mt be looked at and looked at and looked at. No wrg, no talkg, no sgg, no dancg will expla them." Demuth was one of the first Amerin artists to be open wh his sexual inty through hont, posive exprsns of gay sire. He was a major figure * charles demuth gay *
The Parisian muny was much more acceptg of Demuth’s homosexualy, and a number of his patgs, like Turkish Bath wh Self Portra, which were not tend for public view, pict the sexual subculture of postwar Paris and the evolvg gay subculture New York.