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,” – […]
Toronto
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bathhouses Begin To Reinvent Themselves
One of the biggest stories of 2014 was the story that ran in the Associated Press. The death of the gay baths. It must of […]
Toronto Bathhouse Raids Mural
WorldPride has come to North America for the first time. Well actually Canada, but that country is in the continent of North America. This is […]
The Toronto Bathhouse Raids & Edmund White
The Toronto Bathhouse Raids, or operation soap. In 1981 the Toronto police raided four bathhouses and arrested over 200 men. That mass arrest galvanized a […]
Gay Bathhouse Joke Jeopardizes Sexual Assault Case
This story is such a convoluted mess, I don’t were to begin. Joshua Dowholis (pictured below) was standing trial for sexual assault against several men. […]