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The area’s LGBTQ+ people knew a good opportunity when it arrived, so when the Turkish Bath at the Northern Hotel closed in the s, Pioneer Square gained a new space for gay men to harvest . The baths were in the basement of the Northern, a large red-brick-and-gray-stone high Victorian motel that had been popular during the Alaska Gold Rush. While the sexuality of the bathers who visited during the first s is unknown, at some point around World War II, customers were almost exclusively gay men.

While a bathhouse is often viewed as a solely sexual space (and indeed, men did have sex there), it was also a social space. As the era of gay civil rights dawned, other bathhouses that served gay men opened in Seattle, though South End, with its longer history, tended to draw an older clientele. A sense of community flourished in bathhouses, and some went because they were considered less prone to raids than, say, a bar. In the s and s, the operator of Steam Bath, Edwin McCleary, was also paying off cops, eventually handing over close to $ a month.

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