Were they "gay"?
As they used to say in the old Warner Bros. cartoons:
"Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, could beeeeeeee!"
The article refrains from saying. But I can't imagine, given the various accoutrements and drugs, that they were anything else.
Meth, gay, sex parties are big in NYC and on the west coast. They are often held in places like gay bath houses where the drugs can also be purchased. It is a major reason for the re-growth of AIDs among Gays.
There was a story in the Seattle paper about a man from Boston who travelled to both NYC and Seattle for these parties, and is now dying of AIDS and doing community service of spreading the word about the dangers of these parties as payment for having knowingly taken part, even after he knew he had AIDS. Disgustingly, hamsters are also used