Sex, disco and fish on acid: how Continental Baths became the world's most influential gay club

Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol and Alfred Hitchcock all frequented the decadent New York bathhouse – as did the police who constantly raided it. Its 87-year-old founder, Steve Ostrow, explains how Continental Baths made club culture what it is todayIt’s 1968. Steve Ostrow and his wife, Joanne, sit in their car opposite the Everard Baths, New York City’s most popular public bathhouse. Hundreds of people are queueing to get in. Ostrow watches on, his eyes widening. Despite its popul...

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