another chapter in the nyc batthouse drama...
by Duncan Osborne for Gay City News 01/10/2008
Even as the city health department maintains it has not decided whether it will regulate the city's sex clubs and bathhouses, continue its current policy of aggressively inspecting these businesses, or try to close them all down, a senior department staffer said the agency's goal is to shut them down.
"They are very much looking at this from a medical model and the medical model says shut them down," said Joshua Volle at a January 7 meeting of AIDS and gay groups at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community Center. "They don't have the resources to do it, but their intent is to shut them down... These are my words, they are on a witch hunt."
With his last day at the city's health department coming on January 11, Volle, the director of community HIV prevention planning and programs, was more blunt than a city employee might normally be.
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