Close the San Francisco and Boston Bathhouses!!!

Timothy Kincaid

January 23rd, 2008

Update for Peter LaBarbera’s readers: The post you’re really looking for is here: Is MRSA The New Gay Plague? It’s the post he doesn’t want you to see.

sm-bathhouse.jpgAs we reported earlier, the usual crowd of anti-gay activists jumped all over the faulty stories about outbreaks of MRSA in San Francisco and Boston. Although subsequent reporting (and our indepth analysis) clearly shows that the anti-gays were completely wrong in their accusations, rather than repent of their false accusations, they simply changed directions.

Concerned Women for America issued a press release quoting their own Matt Barber “inviting” the gay community to join his campaign against bathhouses

Therefore, these groups should publicly condemn those specific ‘high-risk behaviors’ which this study has concluded are responsible for spreading MRSA among homosexuals.

“In light of this behaviorally related MRSA outbreak,” said Barber, “we additionally ask HRC and other groups to call on local health agencies to shut down the many bathhouses and sex clubs around the country where men meet for anonymous sex with other men, often multiple partners, on a daily basis. These places create the ‘perfect storm’ for infectious disease, including MRSA.

Peter LaBarbera printed Concerned Woman Barber’s press release with the heading

CWA Invites Homosexual Groups to Work to Curb Spread of MRSA

and put in his own support for the effort

Well, folks, I’m not exactly expecting Human Rights Campaign and the rest of the “gay” lobby to hop on this request for cooperation from my good friend Matt Barber of CWA, but it sure would be progress if they did.

So will Box Turtle Bulletin join the cry to close down those bathhouses in San Francisco and Boston that were so integral to the spread of MRSA? Well, we might consider the question, if they existed!

What the anti-gays failed to notice is that neither San Francisco nor Boston has a single public gay bathhouse. San Francisco closed down bathhouses in 1984 at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic and the closest bathhouses to San Francisco are in Berkeley and San Jose. Bostonites can head down to Providence.

So yet again we see that the claims of anti-gays have no basis in reality.

TJ McFisty

January 23rd, 2008

So the one in leBabs own Chi-town neighborhood (Steamworks) gets a bye? Hmmmph. Guess he needs to keep that one open for his own selfish reasons.

werdna

January 23rd, 2008

SF may not have “bathhouses” per se, but it has at least two sex clubs that I can think of off the top of my head. Barber does in fact say “bathhouses and sex clubs,” in his quote, so, um, well I think you might just’ve missed the boat on this one.

Steve

January 23rd, 2008

It’s far more likely that it’s being passed in the heavily used local gyms than in the few relatively lightly used sex clubs in SF. And I don’t say this to denigrate the gyms: Even the most diligent gyms don’t have staffers going around with disinfectant to every bar, bench and locker room stool between users.

a. mcewen

January 23rd, 2008

i think there are other considerations also. i would see credibility in barber and labarbera’s statements if they were consistent.

I know of several places where heterosexuals go to “swing.” hell pornos are made about them. also, there are several online sites featuring amateur heterosexuals having group sex.

why are they given a pass? because this mea culpa by the anti-gay industry is a tactic to take attention away from their public tongue lashing over this incident.

let’s not give them total credibility on the matter.

toujoursdan

January 24th, 2008

The sex clubs in these cities are pretty well known. Many advertise in the gay media.

I am equivocal about closing them though because I think that would shift the activity to far less safe places like parks.

Chad Horne

January 16th, 2016

I think this is so stupid and shows how we as Americans are retarded..make it illegal to be sexual.. but only for gays. Make strip joints and social media sites illegal for straight people and legalize prostitution. God is suddenly taking wedding vows seriously… no that’s why God gave the judicial system divorce.. as long as a straight man has been married to unhappy lemon wife’s he has had a prostitute to get what she wouldn’t give him.. so if your going to be retarded using the law.. What about people using Facebook, intagram, plenty of fish to hook up with people too … straight Americans better shut it down because a gay is using it now… we don’t talk about the medical conditions in this country being so bad that infectious disease like mrsa came from in the first place .. medical malpractice

Chad Horne

January 16th, 2016

The United States is a kangaroo court system nothing about this country is freedom.

Chad Horne

January 16th, 2016

What San Francisco should work on is the next massive cover up. How many people are going to die in a earthquake!! . Like me as a gay man coming to San Francisco i have spent thousands in the city staying at the best locations available. Zero of the high class hotels are worth it. Places like the Marriott and Huntington which is now the scarlet and etc are all full of homeless people surrounding them and even the valet driver is skeptical of people picking up cars because of the high crime rates.. What I have noticed is the city elites behave as if they own the city with entitlement. A complete disrespect for the general people, behaving as a monarchy of the socially approved status quo. “Take off the crown you are not the queen.” They have a huge homeless problem that is out of control. People dying on the streets every day of starvation. Every time I have gone to castro i have been asked to donate money to help the gay men get off the streets. Gay pride alone draws millions of people to San Francisco for gay pride but apparently it is for NOTHING when secretly the city is careless to the real problems at hand homophobia. I don’t know what kind of pride is to be established in a city that can tolerate such idiotic concepts. Personally I think gay pride San Francisco should be real, if they don’t want the billions of yearly revenue generated off of our clearly discriminated against culture then stop manipulating gays to build your city in the first place.

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