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Sat Jun 10, 2023, 03:30 PM Jun 2023

You cannot tell us these vintage group shower ads weren't gay AF

“Why did we put our heads together? To save money!”

That was the tagline on an early 1960s magazine ad for Bradley Group Showers, a.k.a. Bradley Corporation, one of the bathroom industry’s leading manufacturers of commercial plumbing fixtures and washroom accessories.

The ad, which was designed to sell economical plumbing systems to colleges and sports teams, featured four musclebound young men, butt naked, and having way too much fun showering inches apart from one another.

“Handle large groups economically,” the ad reads.


You cannot tell us these vintage group shower ads weren't gay AF © Provided by Queerty

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You cannot tell us these vintage group shower ads weren't gay AF (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2023 OP
Gay was taboo. That doesn't just mean prohibited ... Phil01 Jun 2023 #1

Phil01

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1. Gay was taboo. That doesn't just mean prohibited ...
Sat Jun 10, 2023, 05:09 PM
Jun 2023

It means absolutely unmentionable.

So you could get away with a lot of "We're all just guys here".

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