Minx Goes Down a Glory Hole in New Clip
When a crisis strikes, the Minx team has to refocus in a very gay way.
August 31, 2023
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When a crisis strikes, the Minx team has to refocus in a very gay way.
The ban was a holdover from the height of the AIDS crisis.
For years, Jameson Farn ran bathhouses all over North America. Read some of his dispatches in this excerpt of his new book, Bathhouse Babylon.
Crackdowns by law enforcement have shaped the LGBT rights movement in the U.S. and worldwide.
Owners and managers of places like The Abbey and Akbar were told to plan for the worst.
"I went down to Greenwich Village and I went into bathhouses to essentially see what was going on there," Dr. Anthony Fauci said in a recent interview.
At the height of the AIDS panic, San Francisco forced bathhouses to employ sex "monitors" and tear down walls of rooms. All of the venues shuttered.
The formative performances at gay bathhouses helped launch the careers of both superstars.
The new documentary I Am Divine will screen at South by Southwest, along with docs on gay seniors, the Continental bathhouse, and porn star Buck Angel.
Williams's roles included an undercover detective in a gay bathhouse in The Ritz and the supportive father of a gay man in The Christmas House.
An accomplished operatic singer, Ostrow is best known for the gay bathhouse where Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, and others launched their careers performing to naked gay men.
The top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: from vintage S.F. bathhouse pics to gay jocks, and yes, even Pride.
Egypt's president has put the entire LGBT population on notice that its members are targets. In December dozens of gay men felt the heel of his government's boot during a bathhouse raid.
Terrence McNally's The Ritz was born during the 1970s sexual revolution, an era of liberation extravagantly celebrated at the Continental Baths, a gay New York bathhouse where an unknown Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, Wayland Flowers, and others once performed for a towel-clad audience. Today, its author calls the play, set in a bathhouse not unlike that exotic establishment, a period piece. ''There was a time at the height of the AIDS crisis that I would not have allowed a revival... but I think we're ready to see it again,'' McNally says.