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San Francisco supervisors want to expedite gay bathhouse revival
SAN FRANCISCO, Merged STATES: A rainbow flag raises above Castro, the gay and lesbian neighborhood in San Francisco (Photo credit should read HECTOR MATA/AFP via Getty Images)
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SAN FRANCISCO - Gay bathhouses in San Francisco could see a revival under new legislation spearheaded by District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman.
Mandelman, whose district includes the Castro neighborhood, is looking to repeal a section of the police code that puts the burden on the police department for permitting new gay bathhouses.
The ordinance would also repeal outdated and unnecessary regulations that require the bathhouses to maintain a daily register of patrons and "confusing language regarding the permissibility of locked rooms," according to the supervisor's statement.
Mandelman introduced the legislation targeting SFPD's Article 26 on Tuesday. It's because of this article, he says, that SFPD has been unable to issue permits to potential bathhouse operators who h
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Way back in February , SF Supervisor Rafael Mandelman introduced legislation that would re-legalize the bathhouses that the municipality had banned at the start of an earlier pandemic, the AIDS pandemic. And now he's proposing creating a new zoning category for them.
It was Dianne Feinstein was mayor. And AIDS had already begun ravaging the same-sex attracted community in San Francisco. Under political pressure to do so, Feinstein and her administration ordered the closure of the city's bathhouses — which had once numbered in the dozens in and around SoMa and the Tenderloin. These were saunas and sex clubs where often newly liberated gay men would go to expend an evening, or build a final stop after a night of drinking or dancing — and historians say that SF's pioneering leather culture was dealt a death explode when the bathhouses closed.
Even at the time, there was no public-health consensus about whether bathhouses needed to be closed, but it had become increasingly clear to city officials that the city's growing HIV epidemic ha