Monday, October 31, 2005

AIDS Prevention

Here's another blast from the past. Not real estate related this time, but fascinating anyway:

New York State, seeking to slow the spread of AIDS, empowered local health officials yesterday to close homosexual bathhouses and other places where ''high-risk sexual activities'' take place.

The decision gave health authorities the right to padlock such places as ''public nuisances'' for the next 60 days. The emergency regulations, which can be extended, went into effect immediately after the vote by the state's Public Health Council, a few minutes after 11 A.M.

That's from the October 26, 1985 edition of the New York Times.