One of the discotheques assaulted was Club 21, which hosted a weekly college night. The one weekend I didn’t go out, an attention-seeking stage horse, Broward County Sheriff Nick Navarro, ordered a homophobic raid on two LGBTQ nightspots that I regularly frequented. The region was quickly becoming the LGBTQ club capital of the world, with a huge scene in Fort Lauderdale and a rising gay mecca in South Beach. In 1991, at the age of twenty, I partied nearly every weekend at the euphoric menagerie of LGBTQ nightclubs in South Florida.
