I do know the Toronto YM(W)CA has co-ed nude swimming. “Roaming Bares”
Imagine that.
Keep the kids where you can see them!
Co-ed?! Just wow. I strayed north of the Mason-Dixon to Pittsburgh on business in 1981. Went to the local YMCA for a dip in the pool that had posted pool hours for male nude swimming. That was a bit of a culture shock back then.
On 10/01/1998, the book, Take the Young Stranger by the Hand: Same-Sex Relations and the YMCA, was published. Founded in the mid-19th century, the YMCA fostered close, spiritually sustaining relationships between young men. By the century's end the "Y," as it became known, had implemented a wide-scale program of physical exercise and sex education, in part to combat the increasingly visible specter of physical intimacy between men. But this emphasis on the perfected male body only increased the institution's reputation as a haven for homosexuality. Drawing upon diverse sources, including YMCA records, social histories, urban and economic studies, "physical culture" physique magazines, and gay memoirs, author Gustav-Wrathall explicated not only the hidden sexual subtexts of the Y's social history but examines how changing attitudes about sexuality, male friendship, gender, marriage, and privacy all contributed to shaping the nature and both the overt and covert purpose of the organization.