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Gay bathhouses nationwide face uncertain future
Associated Press ^
| Aug 23, 2014 10:33 AM EDT
| Matt Hamilton
Posted on 08/23/2014 9:34:43 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Gay bathhouses that once remained in the shadows to stay in business are now seeking attention to keep their doors open.
Some are doing aggressive online advertising and community outreach. Others tout their upscale amenities like plush towels and marble baths. A bathhouse in Ohio has even added hotel rooms and a nightclub. [
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In the heyday of bathhouses in the late 1970s, there were nearly 200 gay bathhouses in cities across the U.S., but by 1990, the total had dropped to approximately 90, according to Damron, the publisher of an annual gay travel guide. In the last decade, bathhouses, including ones in San Diego, Syracuse, Seattle and San Antonio, have shut down and the total nationwide is less than 70. Most patrons are older.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: aids; anonymoussex; asspress; bathhousebarry; bathhouses; bugchasers; buttociatedpress; gaynewsrooms; gaytourguides; grid; hiv; homosexualagenda; hookupculture; pinkjournalism; pravdamedia; publicsex; sodomandgomorrah; sodomy; stds
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:34:43 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai; Slings and Arrows
AP should inquire if the gay community still buying buggy whips.
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:37:02 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: Olog-hai
Obama is going to be pi$$ed!
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:37:37 AM PDT
by
Artcore
To: Olog-hai
Bathhouse Barry would suggest they offer teen and after-school discounts.
To: Olog-hai
Competition from public restrooms, interstate rest areas and the Cub Scouts is pretty stiff these days. Things are tough all over under the Obama regime.
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:38:31 AM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Olog-hai
Uncertain? I have an idea....how about dousing them in gasoline and burning them, then burying the rubble under concrete with a “Biohazard” warning atop it?
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:41:45 AM PDT
by
hoagy62
("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
To: Olog-hai
They should apply for a government subsidy.
This administration will wire the money immediately.
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:42:14 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Olog-hai
Are these covered by Obamacare?
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:42:26 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: Artcore
Make his favorite bathhouses into National Historic sites.That should really make him mad.Remember all those”Washington slept here signs”?How about.”Obama worked the glory hole here?”
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:42:28 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Caipirabob
Demonstrating that the queer ones are incapable of suporting their own infrastructure. Convert them to hetero hot houses and watch income soar.
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:42:37 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
To: Olog-hai
Wait.. In the past 2 decades the number of homosexual bathhouses has dropped drastically? How is that possible with the media and the homofacists telling us that homosexuals are everywhere
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:43:49 AM PDT
by
SECURE AMERICA
(I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
To: skeeter
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:44:01 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
To: Olog-hai
Oh what a shame. These seamy pits of nastiness aren’t doing well. Guess the folks will have to figure out some other way to debase themselves
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:45:27 AM PDT
by
Nifster
To: Olog-hai
Obama visibly upset
To: Olog-hai
Hard times at the bathhouse?
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:45:56 AM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: RoosterRedux
They are. According to the article young kids 18 - 22 get in free or have a discounted admission. They love the young sodomites.
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:47:01 AM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Olog-hai
Why don’t they just take a bath at home?
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:50:10 AM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: MuttTheHoople
That's what happens in a Bear market...
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:50:56 AM PDT
by
Ouchthatonehurt
("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Olog-hai
Funny Story. When I worked at a Glass company we redid all the glass and mirror work at the Flex Club in Cleveland. The company mentioned in the article. It took a couple weeks. The guy we sent to do the work was completely shocked at what was going on.
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posted on
08/23/2014 9:51:00 AM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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