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<text id=90TT1684>
<title>
June 25, 1990: A Green Light For Red Lights?
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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<body>
<p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
</p>
<p> 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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</body>
</article>
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