E09: The Bathhouse – Queering the New York Dance Floor pt.3

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Our mini-series on the Downtown gay scene continues in earnest, so grab your towel because we're visiting the iconic Continental Baths. Tim and Jeremy give the history of this seminal space, charting the various forms of bathhouse culture since Antiquity, and exploring the role of promiscuous, anonymous and/or public gay sex through time.

They also discuss 'queerness' as a radical act, heteronormativity, the decriminalisation of gay sex and the utopian aspirations for radical changes to ways of living that characterised New York in the early 70s.

Tracklist:
Bette Midler - Do You Want To Dance?
Bobby Byrd - Hot Pants (I'm Coming, I'm Coming)
The Equals - Black Skinned Blue Eyed Boys
The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There

Books:
Guy Hocquenghem - Homosexual Desire
Deleuze and Guattari - Anti-Oedipus