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Democrat Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey celebrated pride month by
reversing a 38-year ban on adult bathhouses and sex venues that were
closed during the 1980s AIDS epidemic.

Frey officially repealed the ban on Sunday after the Minneapolis City
Council voted to repeal the ban on venues that allowed primarily gay
adults to engage in sexual activity. The council repealed the ban in a
9-2 vote on Thursday, and Frey gave his stamp of approval days later,
calling it the "best Pride weekend yet!!" (RELATED: 'Why Is Chase Bank
Gay?' — Comedian Tim Dillon Hilariously Roasts Pride Month)

"Minneapolis stands with our LGBTQIA+ neighbors – we always will," Frey
said in a post on X. "That's why I'm proud to have stood with members of
the City Council and community advocates to sign the Bathhouse Repeal
Ordinance and Pride in Policy package into law."

These bathhouses and sex venues were originally closed in 1988 over
concerns about hygiene and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases
like AIDS. Notably, Dr. Anthony Fauci conducted research during the 80s
and determined that the outbreaks were being caused by rampant sexual
activity among gay men in these bathhouses.

"It was so concentrated in the gay community that I really wanted to get
a feel for what was going on there that would lead to this explosion of
a sexually transmitted disease," Fauci told NPR in a 2021 interview. "So
I did. I went to the Castro District [of San Francisco]. I went down to Greenwich Village, and I went into the bathhouses to essentially see
what was going on."

"And the epidemiologist in me went, 'Oh, my goodness, this is a perfect
setup for an explosion of a sexually transmitted disease!' And the same
thing going to the gay bars and seeing what was going on. And it gave me
a great insight into the explosiveness of the outbreak of a sexually transmitted disease."

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