People said don’t bring us down we’re out here having a good time, don’t talk about AIDS. We were practically stoned-this was 3/84. “I remember going into the Hippo and asking them to stop the music so we could recruit people for the study. The Shamrock Bar: Photographs and Interviews, 1997-2003 Interview with “Bill,” Shamrock Bar patron, 1999 Established in 1972 in the heart of Mount Vernon, the Hippo has been a cornerstone in the gay and lesbian community in Baltimore, and greeting all those who. It’s like Rubber and I were talking about when he started having safe sex. I went to leave with him and somebody pulled me back in and said, ‘You don’t want to leave with that man.’ And when all this came down that he had AIDS, I was like, o-o-h somebody was helping me. Very RARE Trickslip Matchbook from The Hippo Gay Bar, Baltimore MD LBGTQ NM. Conversely, the call to alter behavior and close specific bathhouses or clubs was seen by some as impinging on individual freedoms. Hippo 1976The Hippopotamus (Hippo or Club Hippo for short). We'd drive around Baltimore and he would do flips right down the center of Charles or Eager Street, right in front of the gay bar The Pink Hippopotamus. It was seen by some as an unintended venue to spread HIV and a problem to be addressed. When I need community, I love the gender performance shows of the Charm City Kitty Club, the Hippo and Bearings Bike Project for trans positive fun and a. The bar and bathhouse culture within the gay community was criticized by many both within and outside the community. The Brig was a gay bar located in the Fells Point area of Baltimore, MD.