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• 10 BT GAY BARS PHOENIX
• FOR PRI MONTH AND BEYOND, HERE ARE 10 SENTIAL GAY BARS PHOENIX AND STTSDALE
• WELE TO THE GAY IENDLY PHOENIX METROPOLAN AREA
• 10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX
• PHOENIX GAY DANCE CLUBS
• PHOENIX GAY MAP

10 BT GAY BARS PHOENIX

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The 50-space parkg lot behd this gay sex club central Phoenix is nearly full, and there's a le formg beyond the tted glass door that serv as the Chute's ma entrance. I sign a temporary membership rd affirmg that I am a gay man and warng that if I am not, I am thereby vadg the privacy of those si.

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This rd scrib the Chute as a gay men's health spa which enabl s members to explore the issu of inty and spirualy. Insi the public rooms are sticky floors, uch, and wall-mounted vio screens showg gay pornography (and, one cur divergence, a ren of Channel 12 news). "We've heard there were gay bathhoe-type operatns, but we haven't received any specific plats, and our enforcement of the ordanc tends to be plat-driven.

10 BT GAY BARS METRO PHOENIX

"The gay nstuency is very vol, and they rist what they perceive to be the ernment's attempt to foc specifilly on plac equented by homosexuals who engage that type of sexual activy, " says Hays. "The basic pot is they nsir themselv to be a mory group, which creat an extra layer of analysis we have to go through so we're not perceived as pickg on gay people. Hays adds, "I don't know if we have any gay vice ps, which might make an unrver vtigatn difficult.

However, there's a public health ncern associated wh gay sex clubs which prompted a cy as liberal as San Francis to close down s gay bathho more than a ago to help curtail the cy's high HIV fectn rat.

That's not homophobia. Lol gay-rights activist Jeff Ofstedahl argu that, spe this fact, gay sex clubs such as the Chute are no more likely to spread HIV than straight sex clubs.

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"It don't matter whether 's a gay club or a straight club, " says Ofstedahl, who pens a lumn for Echo magaze.

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"What matters is what the people are dog si, and what preutns they're takg, bee the msage of safer sex the gay muny is much more prevalent than ever has been the heterosexual muny. But I don't believe the Chute's clients are poster boys for safer sex, or even an accurate reflectn of the gay muny's sexual norm.

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