Will the Gay Bathhouses survive COVID 19?

I haven't been to a gay bathhouse since the 90s, but I know some of you DL crazy queens still go. I hope they are currently closed now, but when they eventually re-open I wonder if some will not be able to weather the financial storm of having no paying customers for many weeks. I

I haven't been to a gay bathhouse since the 90s, but I know some of you DL crazy queens still go. I hope they are currently closed now, but when they eventually re-open I wonder if some will not be able to weather the financial storm of having no paying customers for many weeks. I always heard rumors that the baths (all baths) are mob owned, so maybe they will survive COVID 19.

by Anonymousreply 27April 6, 2020 4:43 PM

Club San Diego, our only bathhouse in San Diego is currently closed. I hope it reopens when all this madness has passed. I don't need to go wild there. I just like having a decent place to escape with other gay men and to just get away from it all for a few hours.

by Anonymousreply 1April 2, 2020 8:42 PM

I used to love Club Ft. Lauderdale....been many years since my last visit. The daytime crowd was more relaxed and social. There was a gym and pool and amazing steam room where you could find some kind of group suck n fuck going on.

The night crowd was more drugged up and tweaking so it was more of a crap shoot.

They probably just closed down yesterday with the Governor's latest orders. I wonder if Andrew Gillum was ever a guest there?

by Anonymousreply 2April 2, 2020 9:04 PM

Not the traditional ones. They’ll have to become like speakeasies.

by Anonymousreply 3April 2, 2020 9:29 PM

The Steamworks in Chicago is pretty amazing too.

by Anonymousreply 4April 2, 2020 11:27 PM

They disinfect they hell out of those places daily, probably the safest place to be unless your legs are in the air.

by Anonymousreply 5April 2, 2020 11:30 PM

I got ringworm from Steamworks Chicago

by Anonymousreply 6April 3, 2020 1:01 AM

Hope Steamworks in Berkeley loses all its bitter Latina troll employees. They are rude assholes to anyone who isn't hot or Latin.

Hope they are enjoying their unemployment since they hated their jobs so much it seems.

by Anonymousreply 7April 3, 2020 1:08 AM

I wonder is Miss Cristobal is still there, such a troll queen and thinks she gonna find a rich husband there. LOL LOL

by Anonymousreply 8April 4, 2020 12:25 AM

My barber in West Hollywood did.

He was my dealer for a while.

#truestory #smallworld #year2k

by Anonymousreply 9April 4, 2020 1:46 AM

It doesn’t matter how much you steam the place, the second a guy with Covid comes in and starts having sex, it’s spreading like wildfire

by Anonymousreply 12April 4, 2020 1:17 PM

NYC’s bathhouses are notoriously awful—the absolute bottom of the bathhouse barrel.

They’d really thinned out over that last decade because of apps, yet they remained in business. They were in prime NYC real estate so I have no idea how they hung on—perhaps supported but mob money or maybe they own the bathhouse places so only have to pay upkeep and taxes.

Baffling

by Anonymousreply 13April 4, 2020 1:19 PM

R9 here.

Keep up with me ladies....

I used to have a barber in a former well-known West Hollywood gay barbershop. He met his husband at the bathhouse. That's where I met his husband, who was rich, as he was the guy I used as a dealer for a while.

We met at the Hollywood Spa and went back to his place for the supplies. Low and behold, my barber was there.

I had to stop going when I went clean.

Wow, the life I lived two decades ago around the year 2K!

Crazy times. I've seen some ups and downs since then but I always remind myself I could of been dead a long time ago...

by Anonymousreply 14April 4, 2020 5:45 PM

R9 and R14

Uggh, caught my typo! Lo and behold.

by Anonymousreply 15April 4, 2020 5:47 PM

Ask Paul Galluccio. If he's still alive, he owns the Townhouse and the East Side and West Side Clubs and one up in Troy, NY.

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by Anonymousreply 16April 4, 2020 6:30 PM

I was a proud habitue of all of all four of Gallucios establishments.

by Anonymousreply 17April 5, 2020 4:14 AM

R17 I tricked with him two or three times at the East Side Sauna (as it was then known) in the 80s. He was a nice man, but we never clicked sexually. Someone told me that if you double-crossed him, you'll end up wearing cement loafers at the bottom of the Hudson River.

by Anonymousreply 18April 5, 2020 6:55 AM

It would be a damn shame if COVID-19 killed the bathhouse. Hang on. We'll be back!

by Anonymousreply 20April 5, 2020 7:35 AM

Will those biohazard tattoos, that were popular with HIV-positive men, finally come back into fashion now?

by Anonymousreply 21April 5, 2020 8:27 AM

[quote] you'll end up wearing cement loafers at the bottom of the Hudson River.

Oh my. You’d think being gay he’d come up with something a little more fashionable.

Loafers? *shudder*

by Anonymousreply 22April 5, 2020 12:09 PM

I haven't been to a bathhouse in YEARS, but I used to love the live j/o and strip shows they had. There weren't any full-nudity strip clubs in LA (and still aren't) so it was the only place to see that kind of action.

by Anonymousreply 24April 5, 2020 5:23 PM

NYC’s bathhouses are shitty.

Can’t he pay to upgrade them a bit?

by Anonymousreply 25April 5, 2020 11:51 PM

Los Angeles ones are closed

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by Anonymousreply 26April 6, 2020 3:12 AM

What will old married men do???

by Anonymousreply 27April 6, 2020 4:43 PM

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