Club San Francisco (San Francisco Club Bath Chain/Gay Bathhouse) Color:Baby Blue and gloriously out of step

and gloriously out of step with the mainstream

By the early 1980s

combustible cinema

It was a space defined by boots on concrete floors

at the height of the counterculture revolution

Club San Francisco (San Francisco Club Bath Chain/Gay Bathhouse) Color:Baby Blue and gloriously out of stepFounded in 1965 in Cleveland, the Club Baths chain grew into a network of over 40 gay bathhouses across North Americabecoming a vital part of queer nightlife and sexual liberation during the '60s, '70s, and early '80s. With sleek facilities, social lounges, and steamy saunas, Club Baths werent just about cruisingthey were hubs of community, resistance, and pride at a time when being out was a radical act. The chain began to decline in the mid 1980s