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It's closing due to the owner's mental health Hull’s biggest gay bathhouse will close right before Christmas, according to its owner. Brian Overton built and opened Club 69 on Wright Street in Hull’s city centre three years ago. But due to personal mental health issues, Overton sold it to someone who plans to turn it into a block of flats. ‘I’m closing it due to personal reasons,’ he told Hull Live. ‘I’ve gone through it in my head a few times and I’ve tried...

Hoda Afshar in an Iranian photographer current living in Melbourne, Australia. Her latest series is titled “Behold” and it’s absolutely stunning. “Behold” was shot in a small town in Iran that mostly leaves its gay residents alone… on one condition: that they keep their sexuality a secret. A group of men invited Afshar inside the town’s male bathhouse to document their lives. The series first opened at Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and is now showing at Horsham Regional Gallery through...