 By 1980, gay Houstonians were still going to disco clubs, while among straight people disco was a fad.Charles Armstrong owns four gay clubs in Houston, with two of them being South Beach and Montrose Mining Company; Mandy Oaklander of the "Houston Press" wrote in 2011 that Armstrong's clubs were "the most successful clubs in Houston's gay scene".In 2002 Jeremy Quittner of "The Advocate" wrote that "it would seem" one could be prevented from being in the "superelite" of Houston for being homosexual; he stated this in reference to Michael J. Kopper, the chief assistant of Enron CFO Andrew Fastow.