A few months ago we reported on a crowd-funding campaign for a movie about the legendary Continental Gay Bathhouse in New York, where the likes of Bette Midler used to sing and which is considered to have had a profound impact on gay culture in the 1960s and 1970s.
Now that documentary is on its way, and Out has unveiled the first poster, which you can see above.
Small Town Gay Bar director Malcolm Inger in behind the movie. Here’s the official synopsis: ‘Malcolm Ingram’s lively new documentary CONTINENTAL takes viewers back in time to the sexually charged New York of 1968, when the notorious Continental Baths opened its doors. This groundbreaking den of debauchery (advertised as a place “for sophisticated men only”) came to transcend sexual identity and became a cultural beacon to the hip, beautiful and infamous. Not only host to newly-empowered gay men of all shapes and sizes, eager to take full advantage of their sexual freedoms at a lavish venue, the Continental brought both high and low culture to the bathhouse’s stage week after week, becoming instrumental in the careers of ‘60s and ‘70s icons like Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, Patti LaBelle, Peter Allen, and countless others.’
The doc is due to debut at SXSW.
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