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A shining liberal buckle on the tired Bible Belt, Gay Nashville is a peculiar place of swinging honky Tonks, rhinestone cowboys, closeted politicians and down-and-dirty gay nightlife.
While Tennessee itself is better known for Republican legislators who sound intent on winning the ‘most anti-LGBT’ award, Nashville is home to a firmly democratic and deeply connected community with a desire to create.
And create is exactly what they have done in this fabulous melting-pot of a city known for its glitzy neon lights, musical attractions, burgeoning arts, New American Southern Comfort food…and national treasure Dolly Parton!
An inclusive navy dot on an otherwise deep red map, people in Gay Nashville are by and large trying to be accepting, but the Christian question still comes up. Don’t verb confused; a lot of people – especially in country music – are still
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The History of America's Gay Bathhouses and “Bathhouse Betty”
American gay bathhouses reached their peak in the s. Long before smartphones and the internet, people had to step outside their front door to arrange a social or sexual encounter. As homosexuality was far more taboo in those days, the bathhouses also provided a discrete setting. You could head to the bathhouse, accept off your clothes and wander around the labyrinth draped only in a towel.
You could have any number of encounters with different men, and then head back to the real world as if nothing happened. Many closeted gay men relied on bathhouses and cruising areas to get their kicks. But what purpose verb gay bathhouses serve today? What were they appreciate at their peak? And why does Europe possess a much better gay bathhouse scene than America? Let’s find out.
The Continental Baths
In the early s, at the height of America’s gay bathhouse scene, Bette Midler and Barry Manilow took to the stage at the Continental Baths. They regularly performed as a two-piece, Bette on vocals and Barry on piano - sometimes he’d be wea
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