In the 1970\u2019s and early 80\u2019s San Francisco was home to dozens of gay bathhouses. But by 1987, they had all been shut down.<\/p>\n
Now, the city has one official queer sex club: Eros, on Turk Street. But it\u2019s a dry facility. If you want a steam room, a sauna, or a hot tub, you have to cross the bridge and head to Berkeley\u2019s Steamworks.<\/p>\n
Since 2020, Board President Mandelman has introduced four pieces of legislation to help bring gay bathhouses back to the city. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe good news is that would-be operators are attempting to use these pieces of legislation and actually reopen the bathhouses. The bad news is that each operator who does this finds seemingly a new barrier,\u201d Mandelman explained. <\/p>\n
The legislation introduced on Tuesday was co-sponsored by Supervisor Matt Dorsey. It exempts \u200aadult sex venues and adult businesses from a planning code rule that requires them to have transparent, street-facing windows. Things like reproductive health clinics, religious institutions, and schools are all exempted from this rule already.<\/p>\n
“This ordinance would extend that recognition or that exemption to adult sex venues and adult businesses,\u201d said Mandelman. <\/p>\n
The legislation heads next to the planning commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 1970\u2019s and early 80\u2019s San Francisco was home to dozens of gay bathhouses. But by 1987,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-466269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}