New St. Marks Baths
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title:
New St. Marks Baths
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The New St. Marks Baths was a gay bathhouse at 6 St. Marks Place in the East Village of Manhattan, New York City from 1979 to 1985. It claimed to be the largest gay bath house in the world. The Saint Marks Baths opened in the location in 1913. Through the 1950s, it operated as a Victorian-style Turkish bath catering to Russian-Jewish immigrants on New York's Lower East Side. In the 1950s, it began to have a homosexual clientele at night. In the 1960s, it became exclusively gay. In 1979, the bath
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Gay bathhouse in New York, United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_St._Marks_Baths
date created:
2009-01-24T05:16:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T11:43:26Z
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