It wasn't our last dance! We still can dance somewhere else. Trust me. There's plenty of clubs we still can go to dance the night away. Roxy's closing its door last Saturday night is not the end. It is, tho, the end of Roxy, the place where homos and queers alike got into trouble. Roxy may have been the world's #1 dance clubs for gay men and all of us who passed through its door as a place where all was perfect - a bodies of A-list gay men dancing through the night.
Also, we should be ok that Roxy is now the thing of the past. Let's snap our fingers and move on. Know that while this club was hot, it certainly has helped gay men dance through the nightmare of HIV/AIDS epidemic...it was also a context in which the strobing lights, excellent mixings of the DJs, and rampant drug use, of everything from alcohol to crystal meth, worked synergistically to make us forget about our own collective responsibilities and helped fuel the epidemic which continues to take its toll on us today.
In the end , is that the mixture of the good and the bad often get muddled, creating historical inaccuracy. Oh whatever. Roxy is gone. But life goes on.
Also, we should be ok that Roxy is now the thing of the past. Let's snap our fingers and move on. Know that while this club was hot, it certainly has helped gay men dance through the nightmare of HIV/AIDS epidemic...it was also a context in which the strobing lights, excellent mixings of the DJs, and rampant drug use, of everything from alcohol to crystal meth, worked synergistically to make us forget about our own collective responsibilities and helped fuel the epidemic which continues to take its toll on us today.
In the end , is that the mixture of the good and the bad often get muddled, creating historical inaccuracy. Oh whatever. Roxy is gone. But life goes on.
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