"If you're a gay man, there's a good chance ... that you will end up, sooner or later, sweating in a large space with a lot of other gay men and loud music and way too many mirrors, hoping it doesn't end in embarrassment," Harris wrote. "It might be a dance club or a workout room; it almost doesn't matter."
"In the pre-Stonewall Era, sex-segregated fitness clubs could be spaces of sexual and social discovery for LGBTQ people prohibited from openly socializing elsewhere."
"American fitness culture has always been bound up with gay identity, and today's gyms, from CrossFit to Curves, would be unrecognizable without it," as Natalia Mehlman Petrzela wrote in a 2018 Slate essay.
"It was L.A.'s first gay gym," Blair told The New York Times in 2012. "The first Nautilus machines, tiny shorts, tube socks and Abba all day long."
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