LGBT HISTORY: A History of the Baths

This is posted specifically for Michi...

Darling, I don't know how accurate this website is, but it gives an interesting overview of the history of bathhouses as a place for gay men to meet and have sex.

For all who don't know, Michi is in grad school at the University of Amsterdam studying the culture of bathhouses ... and is a huge supporter of expanding them further than they are here in the states. I can't say I disagree with her, specifically. (She is also one of the most avid readers of this site.)

More sex is OK with me.*

For those who don't "get" the picture above, the Club brand bathhouse is still around and you may or may not have found me in Club Columbus and/or Club Indianapolis in the last couple of years. That particular flyer is from the 1970s in San Francisco.

Anyways, I thought it was neat.

*As an HIV advocate, I felt it was my duty to include "so long as it was safe," so leaving that little bit out actually makes me shudder a bit. In reality, we should assume that all sex should be safe. I think it's a sign of the times that we still have to remind ourselves that... a condom is important.

BLOGGING: Really unusual ways people find this site -- take 2

Here are some new fun ways people come to this site, again via our FEEDJIT traffic monitor :-). (PS --> I see you, Michi, I know you're reading RIGHT NOW)

San Antonio, Texas arrived from google.com on "QueerCincinnati.com: GAY STUFF: Mamma Mia, the Movie!" by searching for is mamma mia a gay movie.

I'm actually getting a lot of hits regarding Mamma Mia -- which is coming out THIS weekend and I am really excited, though I'll probably have to wait until next weekend as we also want to see the Dark Knight, and we also are renting TEETH. Ha! Really, we are. Something about understanding the rhetoric behind it.

Markham, Ontario arrived from blogsearch.google.com
on "QueerCincinnati.com: GAY STUFF: Queer Blog Review" by searching for best gay blogs.

That is perhaps my favorite new way people are finding me... by typing in "best gay blogs" into google's blogsearch. Because I blog so much, it keeps popping up.

And though there are none currently on the list, I want to make a little note out there to everyone searching for a bathhouse or gay sauna in Cincinnati... there is none (link is the one and only post related to bathhouses in the entirety of my archives, really). Sorry, guys, unless you are a member of the Central Park YMCA, or the Hyde Park Urban Active (which I am), you're luck at finding men to fool around with in the steam room is limited to two bathhouses in Cbus, one in Kentucky (I think), a very private one in Dayton (rumor has it that it's been closed down, can anyone confirm its existence?), and two in Indianapolis.

Simon Leis would shit a brick if one opened here -- we don't even have strip clubs, and we only have two porn stores in the entirety of Hamilton County.

Let alone a bathhouse.

GAY STUFF: Gay Bathhouses Attacked

**IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A BATHHOUSE IN CINCINNATI, PLEASE CLICK TO THIS BLOG FOR AN EXPLANATION. THANKS!**

Many thanks to TY over at the Vinyl Polis for this one...

A gay establishment in the Hungarian capital has been targeted, the second attack in a week.

Four petrol bombs were thrown into sauna called Magnum in the early hours of yesterday morning.

One man was slightly injured by fumes.

The bombers had called the sauna before their attack and warned people to evacuate.

A similar phone warning was used last week when a gay club was attacked with a petrol bomb.

The sauna had kept several extinguishers at hand since last week’s attack and so the fire was promptly extinguished.

I think it's as disturbing, if not more so, that they have a bathhouse called Magnum.

That's optimistic.