Bathhouses Raided During Operation Soap All Gone
Laura Hanrahan has written an article about the businesses that were the subject of the infamous bathhouse raids in the 1980s. Dubbed “Operation Soap,” – […]
Canada
Battle For Control Of Steamworks Bathhouse
Journalist Kevin Maimann has written two articles detailing the battle for control over Steamworks. First part – Five-year-long legal dispute between owners of Steamworks comes […]
Arrest Records In Bathhouse Raid Expunged
Calgary police Chief Mark Neufeld has acknowledged a raid at a bathhouse in 2002 caused pain and trauma for everyone involved. Goliath’s Bathhouse was established […]
Dancer Pretty Sure He Contracted MonkeyPox At The Gay Baths
Peter Kelly a 28-year-old Toronto resident who contracted MonkeyPox tells the Canadian Press “I was so delirious,” he said in an interview, as he described […]
Staff At Steamworks Toronto Vote To Unionize
Steamworks Toronto is the first gay business in Toronto “Gay Village” to be unionized with the United Food & Commercial Workers. One person tweeted this […]
Toronto Activists Try To Save Local Baths
In Toronto – The Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention, the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention, Asian Community AIDS Services and AIDS ACTION NOW! are […]
Toronto Bathhouse Raids 40 Years Later
While America had its “Stonewall” moment, Canada had “Operation Soap“. Multi Bathhouse Raids across the city of Toronto became the turning point in the gay […]
Death At Montreal Bathhouse After Re-Opening
Bathhouses and other saunas in Montreal were recently given the green light to reopen in Quebec amid Covid19. And already they have had their first […]
Spa XS In Toronto Sets Rules For Re-Opening
Spa XS have just updated their website with a list of new rules one must follow (if and when they re-open) COVID-19 is an extremely […]
Spa Excess Closes 1st Time In 20 Years Due To Fire
So What Happened at Spa Excess? On Friday, February 7th at about 2pm, our staff discovered a second floor room on fire. With additional staff […]
Bathhouses In The Age Of Grindr – Can They Survive?
Toronto writer Bobby Box has written an op-ed in advocate about the state of bathhouse in the age of hook-up apps. Before doing anything he […]
Toronto Bathhouse Refuses Entry To Feminine Looking Customer
It all started when local DJ Scooter McCreight was refused entry into Steamworks Toronto Bathhouse. The reason? He looked to feminine. He tweeted the following […]
Vancouver Red Door Bathhouse Closes
Another bathhouse has shut its doors, but this time the reason isn’t because of declining business. Rather because the owner had died. The gay sauna […]
Gay Bathhouse Newbie
Two blog posts were recently published chronicling the baths. First essay by Simon Smith on the exclusively men-for-men parlor in Guangzhou sheds light on LGBTI […]
Bathhouse Raids Apology
The gay community in Toronto received something extraordinary on the eve of Gay Pride. The current Police Chief apologized for their role in the bathhouse […]
Toronto Bathhouse Raided The 35th Anniversary
It has been called Toronto’s Stonewall. The day 150 Toronto police officers carried out simultaneous raids on four gay bathhouses in Canada’s largest city. It […]