Whatever happened to the closed bath houses in San Franciso?

I was looking into State of Washington health dept regs for another question someone posted, and in googling ran across this note on how the gay bath houses in SF were closed some years ago. Were these ever re-opened? Did they help (measurably) to stop the spread of AIDS in SF?

PIMF Francisco

I think they are still closed but in about 2000 there was a strong gay lobby to get them reopened http://www.journalism.sfsu.edu/flux/bayCurrents/bathhouse.html

Why should you have to be hetero to take a bath? What? You mean…? Oh, dear. Oh, my. Um, never mind. :smack: