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kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

We all know The Village People’s classic YMCA, but seriously, in

  • the 70s,
  • the gym

had a

  • men’s dorm

with

  • shared bathrooms and showers

to make things easy for

  • young men from nowhere moving to the big city

How gay must that have been?

A related thought: how many young men moved into the dorms unknowingly and were just like “huh, so that’s what it’s like for adults in the big city, lots of gay hookups”

I’m sorry are we doing “the Village People are gay” now?

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It’s mostly about me thinking through male-male sexuality and realizing how easy it must’ve been in this bathhouse-era Golden Age and how that makes it more tragic that AIDS spoiled it by adding death into the equation, but taking time for chuckling asides like this

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