Young Man Interviewed At The Continental Baths 1974

Continental Baths '71

He's probably been dead for forty years.

I agree with R2. Unfortunately if he was an active gay bottom in the early 1980s , he was likely among the first casualties of AIDS.

How timely! "The Ritz" is on TCM at 4AM tomorrow morning!

He's adorable. I'm so glad his parents were kind to him.

Jewish or Puerto Rican?

The 70s bathhouse/disco gays in NYC were the first ones to die.

My heart goes out to him. I hope he’s an elder gay and is having a wonderful life.

Bless his memory.

Young Man Interviewed At The Continental Baths 1974 Dies of AIDS 1994

R7 True. Gays were already dying from HIV at a smaller number in the late 1970s before it was identified and given a name. First it was being called the gay cancer since so many developed skin and other cancers due to their suppressed immune systems, but many others were also dying from pneumonia .

Reminds me Scott Jacoby from The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane

That was a sweet time capsule moment. I’m still surprised- and heartened - when I see stuff like this from 50 or more years ago, where an outsider lends an empathetic (or even neutral) ear.

I think those of us who survived AIDS in the eighties and nineties feel a dark cloud hanging over when we see a kid like this, knowing what’s coming. I, like r8, want to envision him now as an eldergay who’s led a long and satisfying life. The odds are not in his favor, but one can always hope.