Club Ripples

About this place Club Ripples

Club Ripples operates as Long Beach's gay bathhouse, providing the sauna and cruise facilities that form part of a complete gay nightlife infrastructure in a city with one of the highest LGBTQ+ population concentrations in the United States. Long Beach's substantial gay male community supports bathhouse facilities as part of a broader scene that includes the Broadway Corridor bars, community organisations, and one of the country's oldest Pride events. The venue provides the standard bathhouse format — steam facilities, private areas, common social spaces — in a city that has the population density to sustain this type of venue year-round. For gay male visitors to Long Beach, particularly those arriving from cities where bathhouse culture is well established, Club Ripples provides the Southern California option closest to the Broadway scene.