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Peace out =)
To me it seems as though the author is attempting to connect this one place in particular to methamphetamine use, anonymous and unsafe sex, and the spread of HIV, which, quite honestly, are things that, myself included, many gay men do (hell even heteros partake) without the aid of a public place. People are people. Environment it seems has very little to do with what a person will do or is doing.
The tone of resentment and anger seems to proliferate through the entire article and sort of made me wonder who is stabbing who in the back.
As a person who knows we all make our own choices in life but is still sad about losing his best friend, I appreciated this perspective. The week before I left Seattle, my best friend discovered Club Z and while I was homesick for my former town, my friend regaled me on the phone with interesting stories about the place and the people he met there.
A year or so later, he was HIV+ and denying an addiction to meth. About a month before I intended to go back to check on him, I received a call that he had died.