The State - News from March 27, 1986

Two San Francisco hotels patronized primarily by homosexuals lost their permits to rent rooms when a Superior Court judge ruled they were allowing sexual activity which could contribute to the spread of AIDS. Animals and The Slot, which had been operating under a “hotel exception” to a 1984 judge’s ruling regulating the conduct of 14 gay-oriented businesses, were found by city attorney investigators to be “providing opportunities for numerous multiple sexual contacts which could contribute to the spread of AIDS,” said Philip Ward, chief Deputy San Francisco city attorney. The original injunction was aimed at bathhouses, clubs, theaters and hotels which city officials said could be responsible for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome outbreak in that city.