And the limp-wristed Democrats and unelected bureaucrats didn't address the problem, leaving the gay bathhouses open and providing free fresh needles to inject the drug-addled with more heroin and whatever the hell they were putting into their body which spread HIV/AIDS.
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The Mayor of SF did try to shut down the bath houses, but future Senator Feinstein caved when the gay activists howled. (IIRC, this all came down soon after Mayor Moscone and ephebophillic-stuporvisor Harvey Milk were murdered and Deputy Mayor DiFei moved up to be Mayor)
The SF needle "exchange" programs that just give out needles without an exchange came a bit later. The used needle litter got so bad in gutters and parks that the needle exchange programs had to have employees go about the city to retrieve as many used needles as they could find.