Documenting the West’s descent into Satanic receivership at the hands of the gender goblins and their allies in media and government.
Minneapolis Council Lifts 38-Year Bathhouse Ban
As I reported for PJ Media in April, Minneapolis City Council leaders directed their staffers earlier this year to “research several ordinances that would allow adult bathhouses and sex venues to operate again after a 38-year ban.”
Related: Minneapolis Mulls Bathhouse Legalization
The ban went into effect in the '80s as part of an effort to prevent AIDS transmission.
Via MPR News (emphasis added):
In the 1970s and 1980s in Minneapolis, sexual culture was alive and well, local historian Myra Billund Phibbs says. There were plentiful adult bookstores, pornography theaters, adult bathhouses and a decades-long culture of downtown cruising — casual sexual activity in public places, like along the river.
At the time, adult bathhouses in Minneapolis were community spaces, historically frequented by gay men, where people could also engage in sexual activity or relax after going out to bars. Bathhouses often had local gay activists working there; there were free condoms toward the end of their run. Some even offered cookies and chocolate milk in the lounge area or a place to dance in a disco…
The first positive HIV test in Minneapolis was in 1982. At the time, New York and San Francisco were seeing high numbers, but in Minnesota, it felt like something far away. By 1988, 447 cases of HIV were reported to the Minnesota Department of Health, and 252 Minnesotans had died from AIDS-related illness.
New York and San Francisco decided to close their bathhouses in 1985 and, soon after, Minneapolis did the same. Billund Phibbs said bathhouses were used as the scapegoat for HIV transmission and were deemed “hotspots.”
Anyway, we now have the legislative fruits of that endeavor, with the upshots that being that a.) monkeypox cases are about to go through the roof, and b.) Tampon Tim has a new outlet to express his inclusive masculinity.
Via KSTP (emphasis added):
Just days before Twin Cities Pride, the Minneapolis City Council voted to lift a decades-old ban on adult bathhouses and sex venues that advocates called homophobic.
The council voted 9-2 at its meeting Thursday to approve two ordinances covering adult bathhouses and sex venues — one for licenses and business regulations and a separate measure regarding health and sanitation. Council Vice President Jamal Osman abstained from the votes and Council Member Jamison Whiting was absent…
If approved by Frey, the action repeals the 1988 ban on adult bathhouse licenses. It also removes language meant to modernize city code and eliminate barriers to developing licenses for adult bathhouses in the future.
Council members noted after the meeting that the action doesn’t necessarily allow bathhouses yet but rather allows them to start focusing on regulations for them.
“Once we have the regulatory framework, the regulations in place, that’s when a bathhouse will be able to open,” council member Jason Chavez said.
The changes also move building standards for adult entertainment venues into the adult entertainment code. They preserve Health Department enforcement powers while creating space for a future policy framework grounded in public health and evidence-based safe sex practices.
I’d love to see some polling from the Somali community on the gay bathhouse question. Somehow, I doubt they’d be as progressive as their white progressive sponsors might hope.
Related: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Declares ‘Transfemicide State of Emergency’
One of the councilors, a fat Latinx twink called Jason Chavez, from behind a pair of mini-trans flags on the dais, lauded the measure as a win against something called “anti-2SLGBTQIA bigotry”:
I know what it has meant for so many in our community to have no one in this chamber who could look at this ban and say ‘I know what it cost us. I know who this ban was aimed at and I know that the hate that came with this ban was wrong and still is.’ Someone who will acknowledge that bathhouse restrictions have a history that is intertwined with anti-2SLGBTQIA bigotry, in particular the history of homophobia in Minneapolis. And today’s vote is a vote to try to rectify past harms.
Jason Chavez, Minneapolis City Council member for Ward 9: "Bathhouse restrictions have a history that is intertwined with anti-2SLGBTQIA bigotry" pic.twitter.com/2g9fkwsZrA
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) June 28, 2026
