Dallas Police Raid Bathhouse, Arresting 10 For Trying To Get Off At Private Club
In response to a “complaint,” the Dallas Police Department raided the bathhouse Club-Dallas Oct. 8, arresting ten customers on charges of public lewdness and indecent exposure (which carry maximum sentences of 6-12 months and $2-4,000 in fines) and one staffer with interfering with police. Two officers paid admission to The Club — which includes staples like a sauna and jacuzzi, as well as pool tables and a fitness center — to “gathered evidence” before additional uniforms were brought in. Management of The Club helped bail out its arrested patrons, while the police says more crackdowns could be coming. It was the first time the police raided the venue since 2003, and only does so, DPD’s gay liaison Laura Martin insists, when there’s a valid complaint. At least one of those arrested is a closeted bisexual man. The bathhouse’s tagline: “Good. Clean. Fun.”
Let me guess, somebody got thrown out of the club and decided to retaliate. Nice.
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Aren’t bathhouses technically illegal? I’ve always thought they must be. In Dallas there has been some cracking down on massage parlors with “happy endings” as well, under the pretense of building code regulations. Does anyone know about the legality of these places?
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Welcome back to 1962 everyone!
You know no matter what you think about bathhouses this is becoming a disturbing trend. Look at it. Bathhouse raided, Gay Bars raided, people being asked id they are gay by employers, people being fired for being gay. HUGE spike in LGBT Violence and homoicide. ALOT of open air medis anti-gay talk and the rash of LGBT teen related suicides.
This is like a horrible step back in time and should be a wake up call that we need to get out there and stand up and fight back before they do take us back to 1962.
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Guess their undercover uniforms were quite convincing–must have been the HARD ONS!
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I live in Dallas, and have been to Club Dallas, but I think the reason the police raided it is quite simpler. The Green Line has a new station for the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), and it’s not more than a block away from this place. It’s typical of American cities to “clean up” an area of town from the “undesirables” (read non-white, non-Christian, non-hetero) when they have an expensive project in the area. There’s another spa about the same distance from the station in the opposite direction. I hope they don’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they got raided soon too. Can I just say, as a Texan? Fuck you Texas.
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Sheeesh, this is like something from Thatcher’s Britain of the 80s.
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Good grief guys. The Sheriff in Dallas County is a Latina Lesbian.
Can anyone name a straight Sex Club in Texas? Not a private non-commercial club, but a commercial open to the public sex business.
I don’t like a lot Texas’ laws, but I don’t think they are being enforced unevenly. Sure, have an investigation into those that did the raid, but don’t be surprised if those officers weren’t motivated by bias, but a simple complaint.
Some of y’all have opined that this was somehow the result of someone ‘snitching’ because they were tossed. The Club wouldn’t have a problem even if raided if they and their patrons were obeying the law. Its not like that undercover and overt enforcement is really tight there. I for one, would love to see a lot more investigation of these types of establishments, as in my opinion, I see many of them as commercial businesses profiting from providing places for meth usage and unsafe sex.
For the time being, I’m not putting this in the same category of Rainbow Lodge Raid in Ft Worth (which was a case of redneck cops attacking Gay people)
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And if the Republican win in Texas on NOV 2 it will only get worse
http://tcgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2010_RPT_PLATFORM.pdf
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@Tom. What “complaint” could there be? And why not raid a gay bar too? After
all, they might be drinking and propositioning other men for sex!! And they might drive home after drinking too! Lock those fags up!
I mean it’s shocking that there might be gay sex
bathhouse. Which is private property. And everyone who goes there knows what to expect.
No, Tom, you’re right. There is no homophobia at all here.
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Don’t kid yourself, this place is a big time meth fueled sex house. It’s easy to find in there any amount you want to buy. They have all the Utencils available to smoke and inject it with. The guy outside mearly acts as a police buffer. The employees inside running the place are aware of all the tweakers and dealers. The dealers feel as though it’s safer to sale there cause of the safety net that the place secretly has in place. The only problem With DPD doing this raid was that they were not properly informed of how to go about their operation. Meth is the worlds most dangerous drug and it thrives at this place. Take the dope out of the equation and I would have no problem with this business.
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if the problem was really meth, why did they arrest everyone?
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Might I suggest prefacing such headlines a la Fark?
“Having solved all other crimes, ________________”