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• TWO PANMIC YEARS LATER, GAY BATHHOE ZONG BACK ON THE DOCKET IN SF
• SF SUPERVISORS PANEL OKS GAY BATHHOE ZONG UPDATE
• POLIL NOT: PLANNG BODY BACKS ZONG FIX FOR SF GAY BATHHO
• SF CONSIRS REVIVG GAY BATHHO
• ZONG FIX AIMS TO CLEAR LAST HURDLE FOR SF GAY BATHHO
• FORMER CASTRO GYM SPACE EYED FOR NEW GAY BATHHOE
• PURPORTED NEW SF GAY BATHHOE BLOCKED BY ZONG ISSU
• SF: SUPE PROPOS REGULATNS ALLOWG FOR GAY BATHHO
• SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR PROPOS NEW ZONG REGULATNS ALLOWG FOR THE REVIVAL OF GAY BATHHO BY DANIEL MONT PUBLISHED MARCH 16, 2022 LGBTQ+ KTVU FOX 2 SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE RAFAEL MANLMAN, SAN FRANCIS DISTRICT 8 SUPERVISOR A 2018 PHOTO. DISTRICT 8 CLUS THE CASTRO, GLEN PARK, NOE VALLEY, DIAMOND HEIGHTS, AND MISSN DOLOR. SUPERVISOR MANLMAN IS THE ONLY LGBTQ MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. (PHOTO UR EXPAND SAN FRANCISCO - IN AN EFFORT TO CREATE MORE SAFE SPAC FOR SAN FRANCIS'S LGBTQ MUNY, SUPERVISOR RAFAEL MANLMAN ON TUDAY PROPOSED CREATG NEW ZONG REGULATNS THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THE REVIVAL OF GAY BATHHO. UNR MANLMAN'S PROPOSED LEGISLATN, A NEW ZONG TEGORY FOR ADULT SEX VENU WOULD BE CREATED, MAKG WAY FOR SUCH BS TO BE PERMTED HISTORILLY LGBTQ-AFFILIATED NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE THE TENRLO, SOUTH OF MARKET, UPPER MARKET, AND CASTRO. THE PROPOSED LEGISLATN BUILDS OFF LEGISLATN DRAFTED BY MANLMAN 2020 THAT UPDATED STRGENT CY HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS ERNG MERCIAL ADULT SEX VENU THAT WERE FIRST IMPOSED 1984 -- THE HEIGHT OF THE AIDS EPIMIC. AT THE TIME, THE CY SUED OPERATORS OF GAY BATHHO AND OTHER NSENSUAL ADULT VENU, CG THEM AS A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND PROMPTG MOST TO CLOSE. ALTHOUGH THE 2020 UPDATE TOOK TO ACUNT THE ADVANCEMENTS SEXUAL HEALTH AWARENS AND PREVENTATIVE MEASUR AND WAS APPROVED UNANIMOLY BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, THE CY'S PLANNG DEPARTMENT TERMED THAT BATHHO DIDN'T FALL UNR THE CY'S ADULT BS PLANNG . MANLMAN'S LATT ORDANCE WOULD TABLISH A PLETELY NEW ADULT SEX VENU ZONG TEGORY, PAVG THE WAY FOR BATHHO AND SIAR TABLISHMENTS TO BE PERMTED SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS. "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. "THIS ORDANCE IS ABOUT PLETG THE WORK WE BEGAN 2020 TO OVERE THE LGERG STIGMA OF A PAFUL CHAPTER THE HISTORY OF SAN FRANCIS'S QUEER MUNY BY ONCE AGA WELG THE SAFE, LGBTQ-AFFIRMG SPAC OUR CY, AND PAVG THE WAY FOR QUEER ENTREPRENRS TO OPEN THEM UP AND NTRIBUTE TO OUR POST-PANMIC ENOMIC REVERY," HE SAID. MANLMAN, WHOSE DISTRICT CLUS THE CASTRO, IS THE BOARD'S ONLY LGBTQ MEMBER. EROS SF WAS ONE OF THE FEW REMAG GAY BATHHO THE CY, BUT DECEMBER THE BS CLOSED THE DOORS AT S LONGTIME 2051 MARKET ST. LOTN. "AFTER 30 YEARS, EROS SPENT OVER SIX MONTHS SEARCHG FOR A NEW LOTN WHERE OUR LEGACY BS ULD NTUE TO OFFER A SAFE, RELAXG SEX CLUB," EROS SF -OWNER KEN ROWE SAID. "WHEN WE DID FD A LOTN, A HISTORIC BATH HOE JT ONE BLOCK OM THE MARKET STREET RRIDOR, WHERE THE LANDLORDS WERE TERTED OUR BS, THE LOTN DIDN'T ALLOW ADULT BS. THE ZONG CHANG N KEEP OUR BS GOG AND OFFER MORE VARIETY OF SAFE EXPERIENC FOR TOURISTS AND LOLS." THE PLANNG COMMISSN IS EXPECTED TO NSIR MANLMAN'S PROPOSAL SOMETIME NEXT MONTH, BEFORE HEADG TO THEN HEADG TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS' LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATN COMMTEE.  DAILY NEWSLETTER
• SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR'S PROPOSAL MAY ALLOW FOR REVIVAL OF GAY BATHHO IN SOME NEIGHBORHOODS
• SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS RAC TO REOPEN NEW LOTN
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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

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. Prevly: Supervisor Propos Re-Legalizg Gay Bathho In San Francis. Bathho were orred closed San Francis at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis the 1980s, but they’re on the way back, as the SF Planng Commissn jt approved “adult sex venue” zong, proper bathho have not existed San Francis sce the mid-1980s, when then-mayor Dianne Feste clared war on the popular gay hook-up spots durg the HIV/AIDS epimic.

Image: SF Planng“Gay bathho ed to be que a mon feature the LGBTQ muny San Francis, ” Manlman’s legislative ai Jab Btliff told the Planng Commissn Thursday, prentg material cludg the above map showg former “adult sex venue” lotns prev s. Related: Two Panmic Years Later, Gay Bathhoe Zong Back on the Docket In SF [SFist]Image: @MclePupBadge via Twter. A proposed zong change to allow gay bathho and other adult sex venu to open the cy's historic LGBTQ neighborhoods is close to beg falized.

SF SUPERVISORS PANEL OKS GAY BATHHOE ZONG UPDATE

After closg s longtime upper Market Street lotn the Castro LGBTQ district December, Eros began remolg and movg to s new space, where the gay Bulldog Baths had operated the late 1970s and 1980s. "Bathho are a mon feature LGBTQ muni many ci around the world, and they ed to be que mon San Francis as well, " noted gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman at the mtee hearg.

It effectively led the cy's gay bathho to close their doors, wh the only on left the Bay Area beg Berkeley, where Steamworks Baths ntu to operate, and San Jose, which saw the Watergarn go out of bs the summer of 2020 amid s forced closure durg the COVID-19 panmic. San Francis officials lifted their prohibory l for gay bathho early 2021.

Eros -owner Ken Rowe strsed durg the hearg that the gay- and trans-owned bs operat siar to a "day spa" as has set daytime and eveng hours and is not open 24 hours a day. "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 fact that the sex club Blow Buddi that had been SOMA closed down. A proposed zong change to allow gay bathho and other adult sex venu to open the cy’s historic LGBT neighborhoods is close to beg falized San Francis.

POLIL NOT: PLANNG BODY BACKS ZONG FIX FOR SF GAY BATHHO

The San Francis Board of Supervisors’ Land Use and Transportatn Commtee voted 2-0 Monday, April 18, support of the chang to the cy need for Eros a sex club for gay, bi, and trans men, to reopen s doors at 132 Turk Street where the famo gay Bulldog Baths had operated the late 1970’s and 1980’s. “Bathho are a mon feature LGBT muni many ci around the world, and they ed to be que mon San Francis as well, ” noted gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman at the mtee hearg.

It effectively led the cy’s gay bathho to close their doors, wh the only one left the Bay Area beg Berkeley. San Francis planners have thrown their support behd a proposed zong change that will allow gay bathho and other adult sex venu to open the cy's historic LGBTQ neighborhoods. To lift the facto adult sex bs ban, gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman troduced the cleanup zong proposal March.

SF CONSIRS REVIVG GAY BATHHO

He had spearhead the legislative drive to brg back tradnal gay bathho San Francis. The buildg had been the se of the gay Bulldog Baths the late 1970s and 1980s.

In an effort to create more safe spac for San Francis’s LGBTQ muny, Supervisor Rafael Manlman on Tuday proposed creatg new zong regulatns that would allow for the revival of gay bathho.

ZONG FIX AIMS TO CLEAR LAST HURDLE FOR SF GAY BATHHO

At the time, the cy sued operators of gay bathho and other nsensual adult venu, cg them as a public nuisance and promptg most to close. “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.

FORMER CASTRO GYM SPACE EYED FOR NEW GAY BATHHOE

Eros SF was one of the few remag gay bathho the cy, but December the bs closed the doors at s longtime 2051 Market St. A fal hurdle for reopeng gay bathho San Francis should be removed by Pri Month.

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.

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.

PURPORTED NEW SF GAY BATHHOE BLOCKED BY ZONG ISSU

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. 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. Ne months after San Francis officials cleared the way for gay bathho to rume operatns the cy, proprietors reportedly want to open such a bs near the leather-themed Eagle Plaza parklet the South of Market neighborhood.

SF: SUPE PROPOS REGULATNS ALLOWG FOR GAY BATHHO

Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Manlman disclosed the issu the bathhoe proprietor is facg durg the Castro Merchants Associatn meetg September 2. As the Bay Area Reporter prevly reported, Manlman spearhead the legislative drive to once aga legalize tradnal gay bathho San Francis, which went to effect earlier this year. "In January we heard a bs wanted to open near The Eagle, " said Manlman, referrg to the gay-owned bar at the tersectn of 12th and Harrison streets that onts the new public parklet built on a block of 12th Street.

In a subsequent requt for more rmatn Manlman ai Jab Btliff, a gay man who is a former cy planng staffer, wouldn't tell the B. Former Castro Merchants print Daniel Bergerac, who intifi as a self-scribed "practicg homosexual, " said he is supportive. In October 1984 a San Francis Superr Court judge issued a temporary rtrag orr that shuttered ne gay bathho and sex clubs.

SAN FRANCIS SUPERVISOR PROPOS NEW ZONG REGULATNS ALLOWG FOR THE REVIVAL OF GAY BATHHO BY DANIEL MONT PUBLISHED MARCH 16, 2022 LGBTQ+ KTVU FOX 2 SHARE COPY LK EMAIL FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN REDD ARTICLE RAFAEL MANLMAN, SAN FRANCIS DISTRICT 8 SUPERVISOR A 2018 PHOTO. DISTRICT 8 CLUS THE CASTRO, GLEN PARK, NOE VALLEY, DIAMOND HEIGHTS, AND MISSN DOLOR. SUPERVISOR MANLMAN IS THE ONLY LGBTQ MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. (PHOTO UR EXPAND SAN FRANCISCO - IN AN EFFORT TO CREATE MORE SAFE SPAC FOR SAN FRANCIS'S LGBTQ MUNY, SUPERVISOR RAFAEL MANLMAN ON TUDAY PROPOSED CREATG NEW ZONG REGULATNS THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THE REVIVAL OF GAY BATHHO. UNR MANLMAN'S PROPOSED LEGISLATN, A NEW ZONG TEGORY FOR ADULT SEX VENU WOULD BE CREATED, MAKG WAY FOR SUCH BS TO BE PERMTED HISTORILLY LGBTQ-AFFILIATED NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE THE TENRLO, SOUTH OF MARKET, UPPER MARKET, AND CASTRO. THE PROPOSED LEGISLATN BUILDS OFF LEGISLATN DRAFTED BY MANLMAN 2020 THAT UPDATED STRGENT CY HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS ERNG MERCIAL ADULT SEX VENU THAT WERE FIRST IMPOSED 1984 -- THE HEIGHT OF THE AIDS EPIMIC. AT THE TIME, THE CY SUED OPERATORS OF GAY BATHHO AND OTHER NSENSUAL ADULT VENU, CG THEM AS A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND PROMPTG MOST TO CLOSE. ALTHOUGH THE 2020 UPDATE TOOK TO ACUNT THE ADVANCEMENTS SEXUAL HEALTH AWARENS AND PREVENTATIVE MEASUR AND WAS APPROVED UNANIMOLY BY THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, THE CY'S PLANNG DEPARTMENT TERMED THAT BATHHO DIDN'T FALL UNR THE CY'S ADULT BS PLANNG . MANLMAN'S LATT ORDANCE WOULD TABLISH A PLETELY NEW ADULT SEX VENU ZONG TEGORY, PAVG THE WAY FOR BATHHO AND SIAR TABLISHMENTS TO BE PERMTED SPECIFIC NEIGHBORHOODS. "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. "THIS ORDANCE IS ABOUT PLETG THE WORK WE BEGAN 2020 TO OVERE THE LGERG STIGMA OF A PAFUL CHAPTER THE HISTORY OF SAN FRANCIS'S QUEER MUNY BY ONCE AGA WELG THE SAFE, LGBTQ-AFFIRMG SPAC OUR CY, AND PAVG THE WAY FOR QUEER ENTREPRENRS TO OPEN THEM UP AND NTRIBUTE TO OUR POST-PANMIC ENOMIC REVERY," HE SAID. MANLMAN, WHOSE DISTRICT CLUS THE CASTRO, IS THE BOARD'S ONLY LGBTQ MEMBER. EROS SF WAS ONE OF THE FEW REMAG GAY BATHHO THE CY, BUT DECEMBER THE BS CLOSED THE DOORS AT S LONGTIME 2051 MARKET ST. LOTN. "AFTER 30 YEARS, EROS SPENT OVER SIX MONTHS SEARCHG FOR A NEW LOTN WHERE OUR LEGACY BS ULD NTUE TO OFFER A SAFE, RELAXG SEX CLUB," EROS SF -OWNER KEN ROWE SAID. "WHEN WE DID FD A LOTN, A HISTORIC BATH HOE JT ONE BLOCK OM THE MARKET STREET RRIDOR, WHERE THE LANDLORDS WERE TERTED OUR BS, THE LOTN DIDN'T ALLOW ADULT BS. THE ZONG CHANG N KEEP OUR BS GOG AND OFFER MORE VARIETY OF SAFE EXPERIENC FOR TOURISTS AND LOLS." THE PLANNG COMMISSN IS EXPECTED TO NSIR MANLMAN'S PROPOSAL SOMETIME NEXT MONTH, BEFORE HEADG TO THEN HEADG TO THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS' LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATN COMMTEE.  DAILY NEWSLETTER

By then the cy's gay bathho were no more, but over the ensug years sex clubs opened their doors.

They did so whout private rooms patrons n lock shut, as is typilly found gay bathho around the world. Bob Goldfarb, a gay man who is the print of the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District's board of directors, said he had not heard of the bathhoe plans. Durg the Castro Merchants meetg board member Dave Karraker, a gay man who -owns a gym the neighborhood wh his partner, asked if now is a good time nsirg misleadg reports last year that San Francis was openg bathho " the middle of a panmic.

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

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) – In an effort to create more safe spac for San Francis’s LGBTQ muny, Supervisor Rafael Manlman on Tuday proposed creatg new zong regulatns that would allow for the revival of gay bathho. (Photo ur SAN FRANCISCO - In an effort to create more safe spac for San Francis's LGBTQ muny, Supervisor Rafael Manlman on Tuday proposed creatg new zong regulatns that would allow for the revival of gay bathho.

"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.

Los Angel zong officials have led that a gay bathhoe Wilmgton is functng as a sex club, not a health spa.

SF GAY SEX CLUB EROS RAC TO REOPEN NEW LOTN

Ttimony by a Los Angel police officer who said he wnsed sexual activy at the club durg an unrver vis there earlier this month was key to the board’s has nied that sex was allowed at the zong board’s cisn was prompted by plats by Wilmgton rints who argue that the club should be closed bee vlat cy zong laws and has a rptg fluence on the told the board that the Wilmgton rints are homophobic and have no actual plat agast his club’s patrons.

A nu man lay on a uch the basement’s lounge area masturbatg while watchg homosexual pornography on televisn, Motto said. ”Benson remaed impassive durg Motto’s ttimony, but the Wilmgton rints attendance muttered was his turn to speak, however, Benson acced Wilmgton rints of wantg to close his bs bee ters to gay people. SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) -- In an effort to create more safe spac for San Francis's LGBTQ muny, Supervisor Rafael Manlman on Tuday proposed creatg new zong regulatns that would allow for the revival of gay bathho.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

San Francis's last remag gay sex club is racg to reopen 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. 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.