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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- A GREEN LIGHT FOR RED LIGHTS? When AIDS struck San
- Francisco, city authorities closed many of the gay bathhouses.
- In France, land of Descartes and Voltaire, a different logic
- prevails: AIDS has prompted a call to reopen the brothels, which
- have been banned since 1946. The idea comes from Michele
- Barzach, a gynecologist and feminist who gained renown in 1986
- when she became Health Minister in the government of Jacques
- Chirac. Now a deputy mayor of Paris, Barzach has not abandoned
- her support for women's rights. But she argues that the only way
- to keep AIDS at bay is to get the streetwalkers off the
- trottoirs and back into maisons de tolerance, where health
- measures can be enforced.
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