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City Councillor Charges Bathhouse Visit to Taxpayers – Chad West

June 20, 2025 admin 0

Chad West the openly gay incumbent council member is under fire for spending public funds on personal matters. Critics have pointed out that a charge […]

How Bathhouses Are Dealing With COVID19

March 14, 2020 admin 1

So how are gay bathhouses dealing with COVID19 (the coronavirus) Curtis Jensen, Steamworks’ marketing and graphics coordinator, writes in an email “We have increased our […]

Bathhouse Staffer Lessons Learned

August 13, 2017 admin 0

Sebastian Fortino is an LGBT journalist from Portland who recently wrote an essay about working as a gay bathhouse staffer. Entitled “10 Things I Learned […]

NYC Gay Bathhouse Fire In 1977

July 12, 2016 admin 0

Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of The Gay Bathhouse Fire Of 1977. The bathhouse in question was the Everard Baths where about 80 […]

Who Says Guys Don’t Like The Gay Baths?

February 23, 2016 admin 1

Silly this continually bashing of the gay baths. Who says only desperate guys do to them? Not these guys. Love it or hate it? Maybe […]

Bathhouse The Musical Tenth Anniversary

September 18, 2015 admin 0

Below post re-printed from broadwayworld.com Tim Evanicki Productions and The Parliament House are excited to announce the triumphant return of the award-winning show Bathhouse: The […]

Jonathan Ames & The Russian Baths

September 5, 2015 admin 0

Jonathan Ames is a novelist and memoirist. In addition to being the creator of two television shows. HBO Bored to Death and Starz Blunt Talk. […]

Gay Man Dies In Freak Accident At Club Houston

August 13, 2015 admin 0

Sad news about a death at Club Houston. For once this is not a bathhouse death due to a drug overdose. But rather a freak […]

Flex Spa Offers Free HIV Testing Kits

November 3, 2014 admin 0

Bathhouses all over feature vending machines to buy just about anything. Soft drinks, junk food, underwear and even sex toys. But at Flex Spa in […]

Flex Los Angeles Bathhouse Re-Opens

August 3, 2014 admin 0

In May I had written that Flex Los Angeles had suddenly shut its doors. Customers were baffled as to the reason. Especially since the bathhouse […]

Matthew Bomer Gay Bathhouse Scene

June 1, 2014 admin 0

After many struggles, delays and setbacks Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart has finally been adapted into a film for HBO. This stars among others Matthew […]

Dallas Voice 30 Years With Club Dallas

May 31, 2014 admin 0

Dallas Voice celebrates 30 Years With Club Dallas. Not often two institutions celebrate 30 years together. But that is exactly what these two organizations have […]