The gay scene of New York Cy was promently thst to the public eye 1969, after rts at a Greenwich Village bar. But existed long before that.
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A PEEK UNR THE TOWEL: INSI THE 500-YEAR HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO
* gay history nyc *
Our groundbreakg work documents historic plac nnected to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people New York Cy and tells the often untold story of their fluence on Amerin history and culture. Gay-Owned Bs. It was a ld Febary morng, 118 years ago this month, when New York Cy police nducted their first rerd raid on a gay bathhoe.
This marked the first rerd time that police raid a gay bathhoe Ameri, but certaly wasn’t the last.
The tradn of gay male bathg spac dat back to the 15th century — and more genr-ntral bathg is rerd as early as 6 BC. In the late 1400s, police Florence, Italy, monored homosexual activy and “spect boys” at bathho. As stutns, bathho gaed populary the last century, part due to growg gay populatns lackg plac where they uld publicly gather.