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Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 5:28 PM

Oh, Donald . . . That's not a gym. It's a gay bathhouse. And you have *never* looked like that.

Essential nonprofit paving the way for New York bathhouses

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Essential nonprofit paving the way for New York bathhouses

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Long before #Stonewall, cruising flourished in #Roman thermae and #Ottoman hammams. Mathias Foit explores how public #bathhouses became spaces that blurred social class lines and helped forge shared sexual identities: glreview.org/article/genealogy-of-the-gay-bathhouse