Celebrity gay bar or bathhouse sightings

Kevin Kline checked-in just ahead of me at the WSC once.

Aiden Shaw and Dawson(!) there at various times.

Carrot Top has kinda morphed into a Hot Mess.

But there were a few years just after he had put on some serious muscle when he looked pretty studly naked. I first ran into him in a dark sex club, hair back, baseball cap low, trying to be DL, but I knew right away it was him. We messed around quite a bit. His d*ck is big n thick and he loved suckin bone.

Fast forward a few years and he shows up at another dark sex club in Vegas, still jacked as f*ck, but this time had no qualms being quite the pig on his knees for not only me but another sexy twink boy that showed up. There weren't many in the club that afternoon, but still I was shocked he was that brazen just a couple miles from his show at Luxor.

I also used to see Carrot Top at the gay clubs in Orlando. He'd always have en entourage of twinks fluttering around him.

Was Carrot Top a Carrot Bottom?

I used to talk to Barry Manilow in the back room at Uncle Charlie’s on Third Avenue back in the’70s.

I was walking down a hallway at the 8709 bath house in the 80s when a door opened and the queen in back of me shrieked, "Oh my GOD it's TAB HUNTER!!! The door immediately slammed shut.

Buck would never have visited a bathhouse.

Met Keith Strickland from B-52's at Bourbon Street Pub in Key West. He lives down there part-time. His partner was annoyed. Really handsome and so very sweet.

Spoke with doorman - said that Kenny Chesney used to come in there but he moved out of Key West quickly due to all the fans dropping by his house.

My brother (who is also gay) was doing clean-up after a gay bar close he worked in, and Andy Bell came in and gave him a big kiss on the lips. (Andy was at another bar and heard that my brother was a massive fan - and he really was - so Andy stopped by to meet him). I always thought that was really kind.

Famous author and maitre d' (now owner) used to hang out afternoons at the WSC.

Charles Dickens, R9?

Bains de l'Est Genève Rupert Everett a couple times. Richard Branson in real saunas, not gay sauna. But nude, fit and nice cock.

R1 Kevin Kline? I knew him casually many years ago. I heavily doubt your claim.

Not that I think you're lying, I just think you might have mistaken someone who looked like him. (many Kevin Dobson gay rumors were probably attributed to a very gay acquaintance of mine who looked very much like him).

Unless maybe he just wanted to steam and didn't care if it was a gay bathhouse.

i don't think I've even seen any DL posts about him in all these years.

R1 here. I was standing behind him at the glass window. I could see his ID. He turned and looked right at me as he headed right to enter door to the towel area. He was there. I was there.

There was no working steam room at the WSC—lol too funny

And that wasn’t the last time I saw him in the club that day.

Matthew Broderick in the early 2000s, sitting alone at a small piano bar on 9th Ave / 40 something street, in Hells Kitchen. He looked good, and figured he was taken care of himself in preparation for "The Producers", which opened on Broadway around that time. Saw him and SJP 20 years later in the Hamptons, and he looked like a wart hog.

For the benefit of those of us who don't live in (presumably) NYC:

[quote] WSC

???

For R16. It's permanently closed now.

Thanks, R17.

I've written about this before a few times but I saw Kevin Spirtas at a Korean Spa in New York. He was on "Days of Our Lives" for a long time. He may still be for all I know. He's an out actor and he was there with a younger friend. I chatted with him for a bit but didn't let on that I knew who he was. He looked very nice naked...above average length, trimmed pubes, but still plenty visible. (I absolutely loathe fully shaved men.)

Wanda Sykes at a gay bar in Philly

Back in the late 90s when I was a cute young twink a shitfaced and slurring Nathan Lane tried to pick me up at the old Works bar on the UWS. I politely declined. He was so wasted and so gross.

Maybe Kevin Kline was doing research for "In and Out."

R5 is your name Lola ?

I grope guys at the gym as research for The John Travolta Story

R21 - I remember your posts about that encouter. He was a bit of a nasty drunk, wasn't he?

Paul Lynde had a hustler/boyfriend named Pablo who was gorgeous and sweet. They were together for a while. I used to see them dancing at the old Limelight (not the church) long ago. Pablo and I became fwb and he would complain about how nasty Lynde would get when he drank, which was all the time.

R21- I went to the Works on the Upper West Side back in the late to mid 1990's when I lived in NYC. That bar back then had a high percentage of good looking- pretty boys, preppie guys and yuppie guys. I was cruised by many of them but went home with none of them because I was too shy to talk to anyone.

Lynde was an ex fatty, maybe that's why he was so snarky?

"Lynde suffered from weight problems, weighing 250 lb (110 kg) when he graduated from high school. He was honored by Weight Watchers in 1977."

Queen Latifah at a gay (male) strip bar in Toronto.

I keep thinking this is George Platt Lynes. Get classier DL!

Kevin Kline was on the down low?

And in the West Side Club????

I do believe Dawson.

WSC was so nasty, I wonder whether those who occupy that space now on in the 10th floor know what was going on ...

Dolly

R15 here again. I also have a Nathan Lane sighting.

Again, in the early 2000s at the iconic "Rose's Turn" - piano bar/cabaret on Grove Street, W. Village.

Quiet night. I walked downstairs to get a drink and noticed a guy with his head on the bar, arms sprawled out, and next to him, a backpack overflowing with scripts, sheet music, etc. I sat two seats away from him, looked at the bartender, and we silently chuckled. Guy awakes, and I see it's Lane. Wasted. Mumbling nonsense, swerving, loud.... a complete mess. I'm certain he was also in rehearsal for The Producers. I said hello, to no avail. Nothing registered. Sadly, Rose's Turn closed in 2007. Ironically, that was the time La Lupone was on Broadway in Gypsy doing her own Rose's Turn.

Back in 2003 I remember seeing Cynthia Nixon going private room to private room looking for signatures against the Iraq War,

People were shouting "Fuck off Miranda, we want Samantha!"

R31. Why the 10th floor?

The club was on the 2nd floor.

R27 And what does your sad sack story have to do with celebrity sightings?

Dick Van Patten cruising me at an adult book store in Las Vegas. 8 would not have been enough.

r25 I only chatted with him briefly but he wasn't nasty, he was polite enough and he was so shitfaced he was slurring and glassy eyed. He was clearly interested in me but there was no way, even if he'd been sober. He was just gross. This was at the bar, I turned and went back to my friends elsewhere in the room.

WSC was definitely not on the second floor. You had to take an elevator up. I was the 10th floor if I remember correctly but it was on W20 street, so maybe I am mixing things up.

r27 you should've been more outgoing, there were lots of cute guys at the Works back then. I had lots of good times there.

R39 you’re just plain wrong. Stop! It was on the 2nd floor. You had to walk up—the elevator did not stop at the club.

I had no idea about Carrot Top. Does he bring props?

R38 - I think we've all met that type. The regular who sits at the bar, shitfaced, hitting on everyone who steps up for a drink.

Dick Van Patten was gay?

Was Joyce Van Patten a dyke?

Patton Oswalt was in a gay sauna?

R46 I think they meant Him.

He was a bit light in the loafers.

R12 = Phoebe Cates

R12 here, lol.

Knowing what I think I know, I still find it hard to believe. (I also remember him being a bit of a pussy hound, and those usually don't mix).

But R1 seems pretty certain so I will not doubt his claim.

He pings to me

I thought he and Rex Smith (in the years ago [italic] Pirates [/italic] had real “chemistry.” on stage.

Have heard quite a few stories about Nathan Lane being blind drunk in gay bars

Lots of porn stars, like the late Wilfried Knight and Tom Chase.

I saw Dan Savage and his husband the swimsuit model Terry Miller many times at STAG PDX when I used to hang out there.

Human Swedish meatball Terry Miller?

Edward Albee once in a bar in the Village in the early 90s. He was very nicely built.

Bespoke candle and artisanal SUPER GAY opera shawl Terry Miller. Vacuum pumped cock and nips to rival Thierry Mugler Terry Miller?

r55/r57: the one and the same. He's quite well built, but he's also pretty short. (Dan Savage is not a tall man, but he's taller than Terry, and he has HUGE arms.) Terry always wore tacky new colorful cheap shirts, which I assumed were from the "Mr. Turk" line he modeled for.

Any East Side Club stories? I think you took the elevator to the 10th floor.

R58 or AliExpress.

I heard my huge cocked pale Ukrainian ex boyfriend got fat and would spread out over a cot in one of those dingy ESC cubbies and hoover loads down his gullet and up his butt with such voraciousness he was nicknamed Jabba in Rut.

R59. Plenty of Hasidim

R44 Robin Morgan, Dagmar on 1950s series "Mama" is out - Dick Van Patten played her brother, Nels. Papa, Judson Laire wasn't out. Mama played by Peggy Wood was married to a man.

East Side Club, located at 256 East 56th Street between 2nd Ave & 3rd Ave , 3 Floors of rooms, enter by Elevator (which was finally replaced) to the 6th Floor.

R59 New York's ESC on E56th St. is on the 6th floor which is the top floor. Peter Allen was supposed to be a regular back in the day which is easy to believable

Oh right. My torrid tale at R61 was at the WSC not the ESC. The WSC was a filthy pit of sluts, and I occasionally enjoyed it. ESC was a clear, chilly, calm setting of tepid action.

My brother took a piss next to Kevin Back when he was at a racetrack.

Speaking of ESC, decades ago, you’d get a coupon each time you’d go. 10 coupons got you free entry. A few years back, I was cleaning out a closet and I found a bunch of coupons from years ago!

Boy, was I a slut!

I once saw a goofy guy who used to be a reporter for NY1, the cable news channel, at the East Side Club,

I was always so high when I went to the WSC that I forgot which floor it was on.

The West Side Club was a Vile Pit of Sluttery.

r68 A Frequent Fucker Club?

I had sex with a muscle guy at the WSC who later told me he was one of Clinton’s LGBT advisers and was now in a drag acapella group

Easy to figure out with ChatGPT, R73

Not a sighting, but a fun story to share -

Years ago (early 2000s), when I went to NYC regularly on business, I would hire this same escort through an agency to come to my hotel. Incredibly sexy Haitian guy, handsome, friendly and oh, so much fun ! I'd book for 90 minutes.

One day, at the end of my appointment, we were lying on the bed naked relaxed and talking - he had no other appointments assigned to him for the afternoon (I was a late morning appointment) and I invited him to go to lunch with me that day. He was thrilled and accepted. He told me if his agency called, he was not going to take any appointments for the next few hours so we could have a relaxing summer lunch. However, he gets a call from the agency and he responds, "Who's requesting me ? Yes, yes, I'll take it. Where is he ? Tell him I'll be there in fifteen minutes. Thanks!"

He hurriedly got dressed, and apologized with his change of plans - he had to accept because this guy was an 'easy bottom' and tipped the agency rate (which was $200 at the time, the escort kept half - so he would walk away with $300 for less than an hour's work. Then he said, 'Can you keep a secret ? Want to know who it is ?" Then tells me it was Matthew B.

He was staying at the hotel across the street (he never had escorts go to his home), has booked with this escort ('Eugene') many times before, and does the same routine - performs oral on Eugene to get him hard, then lays on the bed ass up, so Eugene can fuck him. Then they'd hit the shower together and soap each other up while he jerked off MB. (Eugene had dreads in a pony tail - MB would ask him to undo the pony tail as he liked the dreads loose and long. ) Done in 45 minutes or less.

By 2005/06 the agency closed and everything turned to independent escorts on 'Backpage', etc. I never found an ad for him, so not sure if he quit the business. He'd be in his 50s now - I'd love to meet up with him.

Those “going rates” are fiction. Not in the 21st c. Especially through an “agency.” As if you needed an agency, even then.

Tom Selleck in every Gay bathhouse in LA, SF, Chicago, Wash DC from 1979 until 1987.

Also, in Philly in the tomcat theatre across from Danny's on 13th st in Philly.

C. Thomas Howe at the bathhouse, circa 1990. One of my first sexual encounters ever was with porn star Christopher Lance from Dynastud.

R36- To illicit some datalounge sympathy for my 1995 sad sak self who's still wistful about all of those slim good looking straight acting yuppie, preppie and pretty boys who were so interested in me back then- as I said on another thread-Today if I walked into a gay bar COMPLETELY NAKED I would still be invisible. Oh well.

Can I elicit your stuff?

[quote] [R36]- To illicit some datalounge sympathy for my 1995 sad sak self who's still wistful about all of those slim good looking straight acting yuppie, preppie and pretty boys who were so interested in me back then- as I said on another thread-Today if I walked into a gay bar COMPLETELY NAKED I would still be invisible. Oh well.

You should have spent those thirty years learning how to spell "elicit."

r76 A rent boy chose "Eugene" as his 'stage' name?

[quote]Those “going rates” are fiction. Not in the 21st c. Especially through an “agency.” As if you needed an agency, even then.

Escort agencies were still very much a thing in the early 2000s, I had two male friends who worked for one. They kept trying to get me to join up because I have a BIG DICK but I wasn't interested. They told me because of my BIG DICK and my "preppy looks" I would be very sought after.

[quote]You should have spent those thirty years learning how to spell "elicit."

Are you my cunt third grade teacher? I thought your cunt ass would be dead by now.

R77 WTF are you talking about out of your ass today ?

There were agencies back then listed in the Yellow Pages (found in every hotel). I used to book via 'Manhattan Guys' who served up the best guys around (many were students or trying to break out into acting and didn't want to be a waiter or bartender). This was before Backpage, Rentmen, Rentboys, etc. took off on the internet. The agency would charge (on average) $200 and split it with the guy. 20+ years later, the average rate is double that in Manhattan (though some still charge $300-$350), no more agencies, and the escort pockets the whole thing.

R83 I don't know if he personally chose it, if it was his birth name, or if the agency gave it to him when he was hired - but that was the name he went by. What difference does it make ? (I didn't hire him for his name).

r76 was it Matthew Broderick?

Tom Selleck cruised me in LA about 15 yrs ago. He’s so good looking in person. I shoulda went for it.

I know someone who had sex with Selleck—just oral— but not sure to believe that he was a bathhouse regular

Tony Perkins would show up now and then at gay gatherings - like WeHo Pride etc, with a yellow hanky in his right pocket (ie, he liked to drink it and get pissed on).

The late David Ehrenstein claimed he used to see Selleck getting busy with guys in the steamroom

He claimed a lot of things

R79, tell us more about Christopher Lance.

We've all heard of Travolta's spa escapades, so I had to laugh when I visited a northern NJ spa, Star Spa, near the GW bridge/NYC, and saw a pic of Travolta with the staff. He must have visited. It was a Korean spa, but very cruise with white guys. Closed during COVID.

[quote]MB would ask him to undo the pony tail

Must there ALWAYS be an equine reference?

R79

C, Thomas Howell? Please elaborate.

^^^I always liked C. Thomas Howell, how was he in bed!!

I also chatted with Nathan Lane at Works. He must have lived nearby. He was kind of sullen but not drunk. It was 1983.

Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were so silly together swinging their big Italian intact cocks at the bathhouse in Palm Springs in the '70s.

Travolta at the Harrisburg YMCA - very cruisy. He was there when they were filming Numbers.

Michael Bergin was famously spotted at the Steamworks in Chicago in the 1990s.

I guess it really was fun to stay at the YMCA!

[quote] He claimed a lot of things

Remember: Lena Horne never had a sexual experience with another woman.

David just [italic]knew.[/italic]

R93 He grew up the Baltimore area and his real name was Lance Christopher something.

R96 R97 I was in the room across from his. Didn't hook up.

I meant tell us more about having sex with Christopher Lance

reading skills

I can second r94's Travolta story. I used to giggle every time I saw it there!

R101, Michael Bergin, the ex boyfriend of the DL Bête Noire?

Please tell me he also hooked up with JFK Jr. Please!

My only celebrity sighting in a gay bar was Billy Bean. He was a special guest for Pride festivities a few years after he came out, not just randomly clubbing.

My first boyfriend had a better story about dancing with Katerina Witt at a gay bar in New Orleans. Apparently she was a lot of fun, and was there tagging along with Brian Boitano (with whom he did NOT dance).

Ewww— Brian I mean

Edward Albee once sat and watched my husband slurp multiple loads in the smaller front room at Les Hommes on 80th street.

Not his, I hope.

R111= Sarah Jessica Parker

Maybe he was prepping for Lion King this time, r15 .

[quote] Edward Albee once sat and watched my husband slurp multiple loads in the smaller front room at Les Hommes on 80th street.

Such memories! I hope he writes it up and preserves it in a scrapbook for your grandchildren.

[quote] Kevin Kline checked-in just ahead of me at the WSC once.

The what?

West Side Club.

Michael McDonald from MadTV at the Midnight Sun in SF back during the height of his fame. He breezed in with an entourage and acted very aloof. Also saw Ross Matthews there last year during Pride. Super friendly and very gracious to everyone who said "hi" to him.

Also at the Midnight Sun, Charles Busch tried to pick me up once around 2003-2004. That was back when the Sun was THE place to go in the Castro. It was wall-to-wall people there and they used to play music videos interspersed with comedy videos and film clips. They were playing a clip from "Die, Mommie, Die," and this guy who looked like he had recently had plastic surgery that was still settling started chatting me up. He asked me if they showed clips from that movie a lot, and I said I didn't know. He kept moving close to me and "accidentally" rubbing up against me, apologizing and saying, "Oh, it's so crowded in here. I don't mean to keep rubbing up against you." He was kind of creeping me out, so I left. It wasn't until I was halfway home that I realized it was Charles Busch.

How many times are people going to ask the same question?

West Side Club: the formerly famous and long-standing bathhouse on W. 20th Street. NOT the tennis club in Forest Hills.

🥳👍🤢.

Speaking of Tom Selleck, let’s remember that before there were the men of Baywatch, there was Mr. Selleck.

Before that rag, there’s Mr. Katherine Ross + Parker Stevenson.

[R89]: I met 2 different guys who swore they’d had sex with Selleck. Each said he had allowed them to perform oral on him, but he wasn’t reciprocal.

So gay-adjacent ;)

No cruisy park or rest stop sightings?

[R111]: I saw Albee at Les Hommes at least twice back in the early 80’s. Though I found him attractive, he wasn’t interested; so I didn’t bother to approach him.

Pussy!

Knew a guy who swore he slept with Selleck when he was doing toothpaste commercials but nobody believed him. He wasn't a looker. Now I'm wondering if that bastard actually did him.

Every clone on the 70s looks like Selleck.

Not exactly on point, but a good story. In the 1970s my Ivy League university had a pretty notorious steam room in the men's locker room. I recognized a deeply closeted (and anti-gay) state senator there several times, furtively looking around. (He wasn't hot or I would have hit it.) Finally one day I said, hi Senator, how are you today?

Never saw that old queen again.

Author Michael Cunningham was a regular steam room denizen at the Equinox on Greenwich Ave.

I saw Chris Connelly standing by himself at Mickey's in WeHo about 10 years ago. He looked ill-at-ease.

^That man always looks ill-at-ease. He smiles like someone who let out a silent fart and is hoping nobody calls him out.

Miss Lindz R130?

R130 you can just say what school it was..,you’ll live.

R132 Chris Connelly died of “lung cancer” in the late ‘80s at the age of 47.

In the 1980s and 90s “Cancer” took too many young men who were artistically inclined.

[quote]Celebrity gay bar or bathhouse sightings

Margo Channing

Nph when he was just starting stark raving mad (sfv of Los Angeles)

R136 No, this Chris Connelly, the reporter.

I knew a Chris Connelly from NE Philly and from Upper Roxborough (in Philly).

Sorry—no one cares. Someone playing Phillywhore is a total bigot on other threads. Go away.

R130, I wish people would do the same to all the closeted, antigay politicians out there (you know there are a bunch of them)

Robert Reed at a bathhouse in Hollywood in 1978. total bottom.