SF gay sex club Eros races to reopen in new location
ebar.comSan Francisco's last remaining gay sex club is racing to reopen its doors in time for Pride weekend. In doing so, it is reviving a historic location in the Tenderloin once home to a bathhouse that catered to men who have sex with men.Eros SF, the sex club for queer and trans men, is now located at 132 Turk Street.
After vacating their former space on upper Market Street in December, Eros's owners began remodeling and moving into their new home, where the gay Bulldog Baths had operated in the late 1970s and 1980s.As of Wednesday, June 22, the business was still working with the city's Department of Building Inspection on getting the final sign off it needs to be able to welcome customers into the new location.
Eros co-owner Ken Rowe was set to have a zoom meeting that afternoon, after the Bay Area Reporter's press deadline, with a building inspector to go over the paperwork that he resubmitted last week."The language he used was to go over the things we can do for being code compliant," said Rowe. "The issue is because it is a multi-purpose building, while it has been a commercial space for quite a while having apartments above it puts it in a different category than kind of what we all assumed," said Rowe. "But, yeah, there is movement."As for being able to announce its opening in the next several days ahead of Pride Sunday, Rowe told the B.A.R.
it is a "slight possibility" at this point. Patrons should check Eros' website and Facebook page for updates, as Rowe will be announcing the opening date via them as soon as he is given the go ahead to do so."I am not extremely confident, but it could happen," he said.
