The high-profile arrests of Taiwanese TV show host Anya and Hong Kong's William So for being under the influence of ecstacy led to an outcry, which closed the club down temporarily in 2002.) (TeXound, which has been Taiwan's only licensed non-commercial electronic music club and longest-running dance club, closed on Jan 10 as constant harassment by the police wore down the punters as police conducts checks every single Friday and Saturday.
Gary Yang Kuei-kuang, the flat's owner, said that most of the partygoers were normal 'nine-to-five people' who used to party at the predominantly gay but now-defunct 'TeXound' nightclub, where drug use was not uncommon. Many of the men were under the influence of drugs during the raid and wore only underwear. He said that the police found 'several dozen used condoms' and tissues littering the floor and one room in the flat was used specifically for sex. Yuanshan Police Station chief Lin Kuo-ping said that informants had the tipped the police off two days earlier after finding out about the party on the Internet. Police said that the illegal dance club in Chungshan District's Nongan Street had been crudely converted from a small 1,080 square feet apartment, which had been sound proofed. Screen shot from a TVBS news report which revealed that 28 of the 93 men arrested at the gay orgy in downtown Taipei on Saturday are HIV-positive.
