San Jose gay bathhoe Watergarn clos for good :: Bay Area Reporter

Contents:

• DOORS TO BAY AREA GAY SEX VENU SWG OPEN
• SAN FRANCIS TELLS GAY BATHHO, "WELE BACK!"
• GAY BATHHO NEAR ME
• FORMER CASTRO GYM SPACE EYED FOR NEW GAY BATHHOE
• SAN JOSE GAY BATHHOE WATERGARN CLOS FOR GOOD
• GAY SEX VENU RETURN
• SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN
• GAY BATHHOE EROS TO OPEN S NEW TENRLO LOTN FOR PRI WEEKEND
• ZONG FIX AIMS TO CLEAR LAST HURDLE FOR SF GAY BATHHO
• TWO PANMIC YEARS LATER, GAY BATHHOE ZONG BACK ON THE DOCKET IN SF
• MOSW GAY SNAS

DOORS TO BAY AREA GAY SEX VENU SWG OPEN

Bay Area gay sex venu are welg back patrons as the regn reopens up after over a year of lockdowns due to the COVID panmic. Eros, a gay sex club on San Francis's Market Street, has been open sce May 20.

Rowe said that Eros — the sole remag gay sex club San Francis followg the closure of Blow Buddi amid the panmic last year — will be receivg further clarifitn om cy officials about what's allowed s play space soon. Steamworks Berkeley — the sole remag gay bathhoe the Bay Area followg the closure of the Watergarn San Jose amid the panmic last year — did not rpond to multiple requts for ment by prs time.

SAN FRANCIS TELLS GAY BATHHO, "WELE BACK!"

For the first time nearly four s operators of tradnal gay bathho n once aga seek perms to open San Francis.

Those regulatns, when put to effect, rulted a facto ban on gay bathho San Francis, leavg rints to have to travel to such bs Berkeley and San Jose. Due to the COVID-19 panmic, the lone gay bathhoe left the Bay Area is Steamworks the East Bay and remas closed bee of the health crisis. While gay sex clubs whout private, locked rooms ntued to operate the cy, most eventually closed their doors.

Whether is signifint on the ground pends on if entreprenrs wh the visn and fancial paci and the savvy to open n and operate one of the, " said gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman of the liftg of the old bathhoe l. Many of the cy's gay bathho were loted the South of Market neighborhood on or near Folsom Street. So many gay-related venu, om bathho and sex clubs to bars and stor terg to leather fetishists, were loted the area by the 1970s that was known as the Miracle Mile.

GAY BATHHO NEAR ME

Allowg for the reopeng of tradnal gay bathho uld be a boost for lears of the area's Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District as they try to prerve the neighborhood as an LGBTQ enclave.

Wh life not expected to return to a sense of normalcy until late 2021, a gay bathhoe uld be ready to open jt as the health crisis fully subsis. The panmic has certaly affected many of the bs our area, " said Robert Goldfarb, a gay man who is the print of the SOMA LGBTQ cultural district's board.

He hop a gay bathhoe operator will e forward to open a lotn San Francis. While he believ there are potential lotns to suate a gay bathhoe the Castro, Manlman told the B. There is also a sex club, Eros, the Castro gayborhood, which had plied wh the aforementned l.

FORMER CASTRO GYM SPACE EYED FOR NEW GAY BATHHOE

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SAN JOSE GAY BATHHOE WATERGARN CLOS FOR GOOD

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As the Castro neighborhood los s only gay sex club and sna, a would-be proprietor told the Bay Area Reporter he is terted openg a gay bathhoe nearby at a former gym lotn. "My ey are set on the former lotn of 24 Hour Fns, " Curtis Chu, a gay man, told the Bay Area Reporter, referrg to the se at 2145 Market Street between Sanchez and Church streets that permanently closed last year at the begng of the COVID-19 panmic lockdowns.

As s webse stat ters to gay and bisexual men, whether they are cisgenr or transgenr. Currently, Steamworks Berkeley is the only tradnal gay bathhoe open the Bay Area. Chu ntacted gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman's office June to quire about openg an adult sex venue, acrdg to emails obtaed by the B.

GAY SEX VENU RETURN

Right now, acrdg to Manlman ai Jab Btliff, a gay man and former planng partment staffer, adult bs are not permted the Castro. The would-be bathhoe proprietors would be breathg life to a once-proment feature of the urban gay male scene that has cled promence due to the AIDS crisis, the rise of hook-up apps, and the COVID-19 panmic.

The ongog ronavis outbreak has led one of the two remag gay bathho operatg the Bay Area to permanently close s doors. The news about the Watergarn's closure as San Francis is poised to allow gay bathho to return after the bs closed more than three s ago durg the height of the AIDS epimic.

SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN

A proposal sponsored by gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman to remove rtrictns that the cy placed on the tablishments the mid-1980s, such as no locked doors and monorg the sex of patrons, sailed through a Board of Supervisors hearg July 9. They would not object to seeg gay bathho reopen wh private rooms patrons uld lock.

The two gay sex clubs remag the cy, Eros the Castro district and Blow Buddi the South of Market neighborhood, are currently closed bee of the health crisis. Steamworks and San Francis's Eros are the last gay sex venu that were left to reopen when California Governor Gav Newsom gave the all-clear last week; San Francis's Blow Buddi and San Jose's the Watergarn were forced to shutter permanently due to the COVID-19 panmic.

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

But somethg that gay bathho and sex clubs offer that apps like Grdr lack is the -person experience, Jensen said, a difference that mirrors how much of society has lived for the past year and their reentry to physil teractn now. 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.

Eros is not a tradnal gay bathhoe that do not have locked rooms.

ZONG FIX AIMS TO CLEAR LAST HURDLE FOR SF GAY BATHHO

"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. 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. Among the many bs lost to closure durg the panmic are two proment Bay Area gay adult bs, Watergarn, a bathhoe San Jose and Blow Buddi, an adult sex venue San Francis’s South of Market neighborhood.

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

“Durg the 1970s and early 80s bathho were a fol pot of gay social life San Francis and were important muny meetg plac where iends would gather to share stori, dance to the latt dis hs or watch a live show, ” said Manlman who is gay and reprents the Castro District. 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. A fal hurdle for reopeng gay bathho San Francis should be removed by Pri Month.

MOSW GAY SNAS

The buildg had been the se of the gay Bulldog Baths the late 1970s and 1980s. More recently, a dog groomer and kennel g the name of the old gay bathhoe had operated the space followed by an artist llective. To lift the facto adult sex bs ban, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman troduced a cleanup zong proposal at Tuday's Board of Supervisors meetg.

He had spearhead the legislative drive to brg back tradnal gay bathho San Francis. And AIDS had already begun ravagg the gay muny San Francis. The were snas and sex clubs where often newly liberated gay men would go to spend an eveng, or make a fal stop after a night of drkg or dancg — and historians say that SF's pneerg leather culture was alt a ath blow when the bathho at the time, there was no public-health nsens about whether bathho need to be closed, but had bee creasgly clear to cy officials that the cy's growg HIV epimic had at least somethg to do wh the ee-love and liberte sexual activi gog on the lol muny, and the bathho were one nex of 2020, Manlman proposed a repeal of the lol ordance that ma bathho — which were fed specifilly as munal baths or clubs which had rentable private rooms wh lockable doors — illegal.

"Durg the 1970s and early 80s, bathho were a fol pot of gay social life San Francis and were important muny meetg plac where iends would gather to share stori, or watch a live show, " Manlman said a statement.