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Associated Press - November 10, 1985
"I am absolutely convinced that the public health would be better served by closure of the bathhouses," Mrs. Feinstein said Friday. She said she will meet with other officials to seek a way to close a half-dozen bathhouses.
The Mayor said it is wrong to equate AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, with civil rights. "The basic reason for bathhouses is to enable activity that results in the spread of the diseases," she said. "Unfortunately, some have chosen to make this a civil rights issue, which it is not."
The city's Health Department ordered the bathhouses closed a year ago, but Judge Roy Wonder of Superior Court decided they could be reopened.
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