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Mike Brooks<\/p>\n
Dallas Police detained dozens of men last Friday, ultimately arresting two, after serving a search warrant at a warehouse on Manana Drive and discovering a \u201cscorching hot play party\u201d (as described by the event organizers) underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to police, the bust was part of the department\u2019s Safe Streets Initiative that has targeted sexually oriented businesses operating improperly in the area around Harry Hines Boulevard.<\/a> The warehouse that police raided, identified by the Dallas Voice as the LGBTQ+ space Spayse Studios, sits just off Harry Hines and brands itself as a venue for everything from \u201cbirthday parties, to anniversaries, to adult kink parties.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Police say that organizers failed<\/a> to get a Sexually Oriented Business license before Friday\u2019s event, which involved patrons paying a cover fee of $35 \u201cto enter the business to engage in sexual contact.\u201d The party was branded as a \u201cCumUnion\u201d event, part of a series of sexually-oriented parties hosted across the country for gay men.<\/a>\u00a0A note on the event\u2019s website states that \u201cdue to circumstances outside of our control,\u201d the evening portion of the party was canceled.<\/p>\n Forty-eight individuals were initially detained when police arrived at the warehouse around noon, and police seized 27 grams of marijuana, 671 grams of psilocybin mushrooms and 11,034.7 grams of THC hash oil.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAdditionally, Vice Detectives recovered more than $11,000 in currency, multiple computers, hard drives and other electronics, as well as pleasure devices and a cargo van believed to be used in the production of pornography,\u201d police said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n Two men who police say organized the party now face charges. <\/p>\n Israel Luna, the owner of Spayse Studios, was charged with possession of a controlled substance over 400 grams, a first-degree felony; promotion of prostitution, a third-degree felony; possession of marijuana between four ounces and five pounds, a state jail felony; and operating a sexually oriented business without a license, a Class A misdemeanor. Marc Tuton was also charged with operating a sexually oriented business without a license, police said.<\/p>\n In February, Dallas Police raided the Paris Adult Bookstore one mile north of Spayse Studios as part of a crackdown on sexually oriented businesses,<\/a> which the city has been trying to better manage for years, before ordinances got tied up in litigation. The nearby Pandora\u2019s Men\u2019s Club, which police say facilitated prostitution and drug sales, was also shuttered, and last week, Dallas\u2019 permit and license appeals board declined to reinstate the club\u2019s dance hall license and late-hours permit.<\/p>\n Although police see Friday\u2019s raid as a part of that series of crackdowns, it can be noted that the raid brings to the surface a history of police targeting LGBTQ+ spaces throughout Dallas. According to the Dallas Voice,<\/a> \u201cat least two or three guys had a panic attack\u201d after it was announced that police were on the warehouses\u2019 premises on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n On social media, attendees have expressed feeling<\/a> \u201ca little freaked out\u201d by the threat of legal issues, adding that it felt like \u201cwe were harassed by the Dallas police department in a gay safe space.\u201d In a since-deleted Reddit post, one user speculated that DPD could have used drones to record the license plates of party attendees \u2014 a claim reminiscent of the 1970s when police published the license plate numbers<\/a> of cars parked outside of known gay bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n