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- A LOOK AHEAD * BATHHO AND OTHER DOOR TRYSTG GROUNDS FOR GAY MEN ARE DRAWG FIRE. AND ALTHOUGH OTHER CI ARE ACTG AGAST THEM ON HEALTH GROUNDS, LOS ANGEL . . . : FUTURE OF SEX CLUBS MAY HGE ON ZONG
- ANOTHER LA GAY BATHHOE GONE WH THE CLOSG OF FLEX
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
A LOOK AHEAD * BATHHO AND OTHER DOOR TRYSTG GROUNDS FOR GAY MEN ARE DRAWG FIRE. AND ALTHOUGH OTHER CI ARE ACTG AGAST THEM ON HEALTH GROUNDS, LOS ANGEL . . . : FUTURE OF SEX CLUBS MAY HGE ON ZONG
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The Vortex is past year has been tough for gay sex clubs Los Angel. Whereas elsewhere the door trystg grounds for gay men have e unr attack for allowg unsafe sex, that most Southern Californian of ncerns is at work here: land e. Neighborhood activists are trated that some clubs have ntued to operate illegally, or that several stanc they were closed, then reopened phoenix-like unr new ownership the same officials have had to navigate between neighborhood ncerns and the now-prevailg view Los Angel that gay sex clubs and bathho serve a eful purpose by providg a ntrolled environment for anonymo sexual enunters.
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And New York Cy, several clubs were closed 1995 after some the gay muny voiced ncerns about unsafe sex and prsured thori to enforce the state’s strict health there have been no such stirrgs. A signed posted last night at the entrance to the parkg lot of the gay bathhoe, which is at 4424 Melrose Ave.
He attributed that part to a cultural change, which he said is havg an impact on gay bathho across the untry. “You don’t have to be the closet as a gay man, ” he said.