San Francis Lifts Gay Bathhoe Ban

Contents:

• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN
• GALLERY: SAN FRANCIS GAY BATHHOE HISTORY, IN FLIERS [NSFW]
• SAN FRANCIS TELLS GAY BATHHO, "WELE BACK!"
• THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS
• GAY SEX VENU RETURN
• TWO PANMIC YEARS LATER, GAY BATHHOE ZONG BACK ON THE DOCKET IN SF
• SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISORS LIFT GAY BATHHOE PROHIBNS
• REOPENG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY BATHHO
• DOORS TO BAY AREA GAY SEX VENU SWG OPEN
• SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR'S PROPOSAL MAY ALLOW FOR REVIVAL OF GAY BATHHO IN SOME NEIGHBORHOODS
• EROSSAN FRANCISMENUHOTELS · LUXURYHOTELS · MID-RANGE + BUDGETBARSDANCE CLUBSCISE CLUBSSNASLBIAN BARS & CLUBSON TODAYTOURSCY GUIGAY WEDDGSGAY MAPEROS

GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND

There is also a sex club, Eros, the Castro gayborhood, which had plied wh the aforementned l. The le change at a time when many LGBTQ+ neighborhoods -- and gay bars and bathho -- are beg cimated by the enomic nsequenc of the panmic.

SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN

When the 30-year-old bathhoe and sna Eros left ’s old home on Market Street near the Castro December 2021, the cy's only remag gay sex club said they had a new home led up.

GALLERY: SAN FRANCIS GAY BATHHOE HISTORY, IN FLIERS [NSFW]

San Francis's last remag gay sex club is reopeng s doors time for Pri weekend. After vatg their former space on upper Market Street December, Eros's owners began remolg and movg to their new home, where the gay Bulldog Baths had operated the late 1970s and 1980s.

SAN FRANCIS TELLS GAY BATHHO, "WELE BACK!"

Eros is not a tradnal gay bathhoe that do not have locked rooms. "We have been able to weather the cris of AIDS and STIs, the dg crisis, and we fd ourselv the only gay mercial sex venue to rema bs post the COVID-imposed closur, " said Rowe, referrg to the closure 2020 of SOMA sex club Blow Buddi.

They did so at the urgg of gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman, who had led the earlier ph to allow bathho to aga operate the cy. It pav the way for gay bathho and other adult sex venu to open the Castro, Tenrlo, and most of South of Market whout the need to receive approval om the planng missn.

THE BT GAY BARS SAN FRANCIS

A dog groomer and kennel g the name of the old gay bathhoe had operated the space followed by an artist llective prr to Eros takg over the lease.

GAY SEX VENU RETURN

To unrstand the eply felt antagonism around bathhoe closur, ’s helpful to unrstand the role the baths played the liv of gay men. In the early 1980s, as AIDS began to cimate the gay muny of San Francis, a battle broke out over the role that gay bathho might play the spread of HIV.

TWO PANMIC YEARS LATER, GAY BATHHOE ZONG BACK ON THE DOCKET IN SF

On the other si stood the gay bathhoe proprietors, San Francis AIDS Foundatn, the San Francis Human Rights Commissn, a handful of polis, the gay prs, and most — but certaly not all — of the gay muny. To unrstand the eply felt antagonism to closg the baths, ’s helpful to unrstand gay history and the role the baths played the liv of gay men the world over. But the post-Stonewall 1970s, gay life me kickg and screamg out of the closet.

Gay magaz proliferated; gay bs thrived; gay artists and micians began achievg mastream succs.

Acrdgly, as gay men stopped nyg their sexual urg, the bathho thrived. No wonr then that when the Cy wanted to close the bathho, was seen by many as an anti-gay, anti-sex — an attempt to drive all back to the closet.

SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISORS LIFT GAY BATHHOE PROHIBNS

Gay civil liberti, of AIDS hysteria vs. A heterosexual judge wh no gay advisory mtee termed what was an acceptable venue for men who have sex wh men.

“Ltlejohn’s ballot proposal galvanized the gay muny opposn, ” renowned activist Cleve Jon told me. We all reasonably feared an anti-gay vote, a slippery slope that uld lead to who-knows-where?

REOPENG SAN FRANCIS'S GAY BATHHO

Now HIV is, at least, ntrollable, allowg more gayns. Maybe they’ve learned to tst that gay men at the baths have enough rmatn, and self-teem, to take re of themselv whout Dianne Feste peerg over their shoulrs. I thk, though, that we n at least celebrate the fact that a time-honored staple of gay culture will be given new life this fair cy.

DOORS TO BAY AREA GAY SEX VENU SWG OPEN

An extraordary, glimpse to the pre-AIDS gay sexual culture, "The Fairoaks Baths" is an exhib of Polaroids taken by Frank Melleno durg the sprg and summer of 1978 at the Fairoaks Hotel, a San Francis bathhoe. There is no other llectn of photographs that so clearly visualiz this perd bathhoe imag and more will be on display at the Llie-Lohman Prce Street Project Space (tails below) and also clud are imag om the Fairoaks Pri Para float om that same Fairoaks Baths:Photographs by Frank MellenoPolaroids om a San Francis bathhoe 1978Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art (Prce Street Project Space)127-B Prce StreetNew York, NY 10012July 12-13, Openg receptn July 11, 6-8 p. The gay revolutn was full flower -- sexy, charged wh self, admtg no shadows.

SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR'S PROPOSAL MAY ALLOW FOR REVIVAL OF GAY BATHHO IN SOME NEIGHBORHOODS

He'd been a member of the '70s gay mune that went on to purchase and nvert a fad but wonrfully tact Victorian apartment buildg on the edge of a black ghetto to a gay bathhoe.

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It lerally stood alone, at the tersectn of Oak and Steer streets, perched on a hill overlookg the lower Hay Valley district; an urban patch not yet gentrified by the cy's swellg ti of gay Boomers and some distance om the neighborhoods they typilly Fairoaks' existence was short-lived -- 1977 to 1979 -- but fondly relled by s patrons for a number of thgs. For one, was a racially clive place for gay men to have sex, unlike some of the cy's hot spots that were ls welg of people of lor. Members of the groups were enuraged by the offer of a ee locker to spend the eveng and this helped foster a more faiar and timate atmosphere than was mon other gay bathho of the era.