Tacoma, Wash., shuts down reported gay sex club.

Publication: The News Tribune (Tacoma, Washington) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Jason Hagey

Sep. 21--City officials have shut down a controversial gay men's club in downtown Tacoma, claiming it was a dangerous "flop house" rife with fire hazards and other code violations.

Police, fire and city license inspectors raided the Load Zone Fellowship on Friday night and immediately ordered its electricity shut off after finding evidence that young men had been paying to sleep overnight in many of the nearly 30 little rooms that had been installed shortly before the club opened.

The building, at 734 Broadway along Antique Row, was boarded up Monday afternoon and city officials revoked club owner Larry Miller's business license, saying he lied on his application and on a building permit application about what kind of activity would happen at the club.

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