Some Singaporean gays would charter taxis in groups to traverse The Causeway and experience what was sorely lacking at home.Īt the height of the popularity of gay saunas in Singapore in the early 2010s, there were a total of eight establishments operating all at the same time. Hot on the heels of its overwhelming success in attracting huge crowds of both Singaporeans and Malaysians, another gay sauna called New Blue Boys opened at 104 A-B, Jalan Serampang, Taman Pelangi, 80400, Johor Bahru about a year later.
It became more convenient in the early 90s when an establishment called Ryu, meaning 'dragon' in Japanese, opened in Taman Pelangi near the Pelangi Complex in Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. Before the 1990s, homosexual and bisexual men in Singapore had to journey all the way to Bangkok, Thailand to experience the pleasures that gay saunas offered.
