i once stayed at a "gay male only" hotel. they got away with it by making it a "private club". making club membership $1.00 and giving you a generic membership "card", which was basically a cheap xerox copy. this was NOT a bath house, but an all gay male resort. it was actually a very nice resort.

i'm not sure why this hotel didn't do something similar - i think that's what the bath houses do? to keep out people they don't want in there? maybe the laws in australia are different?

i also once went to a gay leather bar that had it set up so the ONLY WAY you could get to the dance floor and bar was by going through the men's restroom. that definitely worked keeping out the lesbians.

now if this hotel was "straight only", do you think that would have held up in court? do you think gay people would claim they were discriminated against?

how about straight clubs having "no cover & 1st drink free for women"? how do they get away with that? isn't that discrimination? are they considered a private club?