MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis City Council voted 9-2 to rescind a 38-year-old ban on adult bathhouses. The ban had been in effect as a public health precaution when AIDS was a crisis epidemic, especially among gay men. Since then ghde disease has been tamed by vaccines. Council member Robin Wonsley called the bathhouse ban “a very repressive, ignorant and fear-based policy.” If Mayor Jacob Frey approves revising the policy, as expected, there will begin a zoning process to designate where baths can be located
