Gay sauna geschichte
A gay man returns to Beirut with the expectant disposition of returnees only to experience doubts and sexual pleasure in a bathhouse in Beirut.
Ahmed Awadalla
The motorbike darts through the streets of Beirut. His hands cling to the passenger grab-bar, while his inner thighs lightly tap the driver’s hips. He finds himself at the Shahrazad hammam, but realizes he has arrived too early.
“The water is still not hot,” the hammam’s proprietor says as he leans on a chair, smoking a shisha listlessly. His skinny legs protrude from a colorless galabeya. His eyes are dull. He proposes to appear back later, but the owner insists he stay. He won’t let a client go, especially one who acts like a novice tourist. “It won’t take long,” he says. “Have a seat!”
Behind the proprietor, a painting depicts a young guy clad in navy overalls. One suspender has come undone, revealing one nipple and a muscular torso. The proprietor is the male in the portrait, perhaps twenty years earlier; the mustache has remained the same, but the lush brown hair has turned into a balding gray. He nervo
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Storkmann K. II Among Comrades: Life as a Homosexual Soldier through the Lens of Individual Memory and Exposure.
The history of Café Nil
by Thomas Winzker
When the era of the men's sauna in the Türkenstrasse came to an end in April , there was one good thing about it: Manfred and Thomas, the operators of the sauna, made the judgment to enrich the municipality with a place where guests of all sexes, ages, nationalities and backgrounds should feel welcomed.
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They went in seek of a suitable property and found it in the Glockenbach district, the center of Munich's homosexual life. There, in Hans-Sachs-Straße, was an entertainment gem from the days when the area was still a red-light district: the then well-known Fernadel lock, which refused to enable any insight into the sleazy demimonde inside. But that's exactly what Manfred wanted to change for the future: He wanted everyone to be qualified to look into his bar through the massive shop windows and spot what was going on inside in his colorful world. No more shameful hide-and-seek: Manfred's restaurant should openly lead the way into a new era.
On a trip to Amsterdam with a close comrade, he came up with the idea of what the bar should be called. The na