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The passing drifts of another cool fog spied through a curtained bay window. Low moans and orgasmic shouts heard over an endlessly played Sylvester tune, “Do You Want to Funk With Me?” Giggles. The clank of an eight ball in a rear pocket, the rattle of chains. The acrid smell of popper fumes and stale marijuana smoke. Standing at the front office counter with notices about T-shirts, poppers, and towels.Ī day and a night at the Fairoaks could mean a lot of things.
Interspered with these images is an essay by former Advocate senior editor Mark Thompson. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (Prince Street Project Space) Polaroids from a San Francisco bathhouse in 1978 These images and more will be on display at the Leslie-Lohman Prince Street Project Space (details below) and also included are images from the Fairoaks Pride Parade float from that same year. There is no other collection of photographs that so clearly visualizes this period in bathhouse culture. Many of the images contain nudity and frank erotic scenes, but they also capture men dressed in festive attire and the general life at the bathhouse. These candid images are remarkable because they document the life of the bathhouse with celebration and no apology. An extraordinary, glimpse into the pre-AIDS gay sexual culture, "The Fairoaks Baths" is an exhibit of Polaroids taken by Frank Melleno during the spring and summer of 1978 at the Fairoaks Hotel, a San Francisco bathhouse.