Gay Saunas from Around the World

Thirty-six years after San Francisco officials closed gay bathhouses amid the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Board of Supervisors voted to overturn the ban this summer.

Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock all frequented the decadent New York bathhouse – as did the police who constantly raided it. Its 87-year-old founder, Steve Ostrow, explains how Continental Baths made club culture what it is today

Back when homosexuality was illegal in Philadelphia, the Camac Baths offered a safe place for queer subculture to exist. On April 12th, the Philadelphia…

The closing of gay bathhouses during the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis constituted a “dignity taking,” two scholars argued in a Bates presentation.

A quick tour of places where residents would chill, get clean and — sometimes — get down.