...Chapter 1 discusses how authorities in San Francisco and New York City pursued the closure of gay bathhouses during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Within this particular episode of queer history and public health policy, the rhetoric of dignity proves to be at its most seductive. During the early years...

... alternatives. Specifically, we explore three possibilities: (1) the social interactions in and the urban development encouraged by contemporary bathhouses and geolocative social media apps, (2) the development of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) or treatment as prevention (TasP) strategies to reengage in sexual...