Posted on 03/04/2020 7:46:22 PM PST by karpov
Largely banished since the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, gay bathhouses could return to San Francisco under new legislation introduced to the Board of Supervisors.
District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the Castro neighborhood, introduced an ordinance Tuesday calling for the Department of Public Health to amend city standards established in the 1980s for adult sex venues that effectively shut down gay bathhouses.
Mandelman said bathhouses were once the focal point of the gay community and health care advancements to help prevent the transmission of HIV has made the standards outdated.
“In many ways they symbolized the newfound freedom to live out, proud and happy that gay men from previous generations could never experience,” Mandelman said. “Our current regulations for adult sex venues were put in place as an emergency measure at the height of the AIDS crisis, when San Francisco was desperate to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS.”
The proposed legislation was first reported by The Bay Area Reporter.
Gay bathhouses were shuttered during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, after The City cited them as a public health nuisance in 1984. A court order allowed the businesses to remain open, but only under strict standards that required the use of safe sex “monitors” and door modifications for individual cubicles, rooms or booths to prevent private interactions.
The court order remained in place, and in 1997 the Department of Public Health adopted minimum standards that included staff monitoring and prohibited sex clubs and venues from having doors that patrons could lock.
However, the rules may not have worked as officials hoped.
“There is no evidence showing that the monitoring of patrons at commercial venues that allow people to engage in sexual activity results in safer sex.
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I have read that a state law was passed allowing those with aids not to be held responsible legally for transmitting it to others, you are free to go.
It is hard for those of us on the Right to believe since it seems so, what, counterintuitive? It is just hard to imagine that some folks just don't have the good sense to get out of the rain.
Bottom line: It seems that all that brainwashing and indoctrination from the Left's echo chambers comes with some baggage. It destroys Lefties' abilities to think straight.
I don't think they realize they are on a path to death. They just think they are doing what good Lefties do and can't see that freight train bearing down on them.
In 1995, I had a business meeting in San Fran, so I took my ex and kids with me. I didn’t know there was a nude marathon the same day...
I should have said that I never would have known he was gay until he told me. And yes, I was a single female.
That’s right. I had forgotten about that.
This was just before the question was placed on every application and you had to ask “Have you ever been DIAGNOSED with HIV or ARC?”
I used to have to ask that question out loud to all those SF gay guys. Some of them made it a cause because they were desperate to sue someone for discrimination.
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