The Internet digital magazine Salon posted an article in late 1997 by writer David Horowitz called "The Boys in the Bathhouses." Horowitz calls bathhouses "death camps of contagion." Is anybody else as tired of the Holocaust analogies as I am? In the 1940s, European Jews were rounded up and left in concentration camps to be killed. Supporters were only able to gather 4,000 of the 10,500 signatures needed to put a measure on the November ballot, but they vow to try again.Ĭondemnation of this movement has been quick and sharp. First, a group called Community United for Sexual Privacy (CUSP) formed in 1997 to ask the question, "What gave the city the right to say gay men can't go behind closed doors?" Then another coalition loosely led by longtime activist Michael Petrelis called the old Department of Health regulations homophobic and launched the ballot campaign. In San Francisco, America's gay capital, reopening bathhouses is a big thing. In fact, these are the only people I can imagine doing something like this. Oh yes, I can just imagine San Franciscans heading to the polls to vote on whether or not to reopen gay bathhouses. Today, however, some Bay gays are revisiting the issue and even trying to launch a ballot initiative to reopen the bathhouses. The bathhouses closed one by one either because they refused to adopt the guidelines or due to diminishing patronage. Bathhouse owners and activists balked at the guidelines. You can probably guess the rest of this story. Ultimately, by court order, the bathhouses were allowed to remain open, but were required to remove all private rooms and hire monitors (one for every twenty patrons) to ensure no unsafe sex acts were occurring and expel patrons engaging in unsafe sex practices. But because it was a local rather than state authority, about a half dozen bathhouses reopened shortly to challenge the regulation. That's because the San Francisco Department of Public Health issued an order closing the baths in October 1984 at the height of AIDS panic in the city, claiming they were a public nuisance facilitating multiple unsafe sexual contacts. Always seek the advice of your qualified health care provider regarding any medical questions.Ironically, the same city that churns out so much gay porn and supports a number of commercial sex clubs has no gay public bathhouses. This information is not intended nor recommended as a substitute for medical advice. We only provide general information about medical transition, which may be misleading for your individual circumstances. The members of this subreddit do not act as medical professionals. Check here for a history list of recurring threads sorted by new. Selfies, Selfie-similar pictures, and vocal range images may only be posted in the appropriate dedicated, recurring threads. Some highlights: mark NSFW items as NSFW, do not post illegal content, do not create a new account to avoid a ban. If you edit content in a significant way, specify where you edited it. Users fundraising may post in our monthly Fundraiser thread.įlair your posts Do not use the flairs "ModPost" or "Recurring" as they are reserved. Users selling items or relevant need at reasonable prices or users soliciting free/lost cost items may post in our monthly Buy/Sell/Trade/Giveaway thread. We also are currently not accepting any research requests.
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