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Contents:
- SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN
- SAN FRANCIS TELLS GAY BATHHO, "WELE BACK!"
- GALLERY: SAN FRANCIS GAY BATHHOE HISTORY, IN FLIERS [NSFW]
- GAY SEX VENU RETURN
SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS REOPENS NEW LOTN
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.
"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.
SAN FRANCIS TELLS GAY BATHHO, "WELE BACK!"
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. For the first time nearly four s operators of tradnal gay bathho n once aga seek perms to open San Francis.
GALLERY: SAN FRANCIS GAY BATHHOE HISTORY, IN FLIERS [NSFW]
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.
GAY SEX VENU RETURN
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.