Polo Is My Life

It's about the manager of a sex theater who's forced to leave and flee to the mountains.

He falls in love and gets in even more trouble than he was in the sex theater in San Francisco".

[1] The novel was slated to be released by Random House in 1999, and was even assigned ISBN 0-679-40694-8, but was not published.

A self-contained short story by that title was published in Rolling Stone, no.

An analysis of the story was published in Hunter S. Thompson: Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo, Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 by Kevin T. McEneaney, 225-231.