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LGBTQ+
Sam Stroozas
Minneapolis

Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out

A key and a newspaper clipping
An original key from the Locker Room Baths, later known as the 315 Health Club at the Tretter Collection archives at the University of Minnesota.
Sam Stroozas | MPR News

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In the 1970s and '80s, Minneapolis had numerous public sexual spaces. In the years to come, they would close one by one until the final bathhouse ended service in 1988, one day before the ban took place. Police raids and public fears about the AIDS crisis contributed to the city council unanimously passing a ban on adult bathhouses.