LGBTQ+ people tend to use drugs at significantly higher rates than straight people – why is this?
In this episode, we speak to Jay Jackson from Volteface to explore how queer culture and drug culture are deeply entwined, and how maybe all drugs could be considered queer.
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Wait….. gay people get high and have sex??? No way!!
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"Queer clubs"… you mean gay bars?
POV: child abuse victim.
Out of maybe a bit more than a hundred of my queer friends and acquaintances, maybe one doesn´t do drugs. It´s sad cause it made me distance myself from all of them. Only because of their mindless way of doing drugs. It´s not a good feeling to be around people who use gbl, coke and ket constantly.
From say no to drugs to drugs are gay
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😆 the funniest video name ever! I'm interested in this Queersearch 🤣
Old title plsssss
Feel like there could have been more perspectives
by all means do as much drugs as you like, do it daily even. Snort tf outa that cocain as much as you want 😀
Typical meaningless noise from vice..
Um I don’t think that’s a flex and I’m pretty straight and smoke weed and pop pills on the daily so
Queer clubs have not influenced anything with me so I don't know who you're talkin about with that blanket statement but it definitely doesn't apply to me bub
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Good little documentary. I enjoyed it. I find queer history in general interesting and I'm straight. I believe it's a 2-book series called "Gay New York" that really delves into queer history from the 1800s in NY to modern times. I haven't read the second volume. I believe the first ends just after the Harlem Renaissance.
This is pure homophobia.
I’m queer and I don’t agree with this sensationalist sh1t. You can’t talk about a community in this way without interviewing a clear amount of people with trustable information and numbers. Thank you continuing extending the bad stereotypes.
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Drugs are gay, mmmmkay.
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News flash ! Straight people use drugs too !!!! I know of plenty of white male meth heads in Minnesota. Heroin and coke are big up here too . I’ll be chilling at a party and people you never expect Start snorting Coke . I used to go for the booze then over the years people do too much .
addict here and this is just a bore for this tired ole queen . jbbarrettnc
childhood trauma and being marginalized by society leads to higher occurrence of drug use? shocking.
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This is the gay version of bro science.
As a gay man I have personally never used drugs, I have been with guys that did, I personally don't care as long as it's safe sex.
Can drugs consent?
No but this video deffinatly is.
Why is everyone mad? This video is not saying that being gay = being a drug user. Nor is it saying doing drugs = being gay. The title is clickbait, and y’all fell for it. However, the video itself is a very interesting look into drug trends and how drugs affect the gay community and subsequently the rest of the world.
aren't statistics skewed?
I came here to learn how to trade after listening to a guy on radio talk about the importance of investing and how he made $460,000 in 4 months from $160k. Somehow this video has helped shed light on some things, but I'm confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas.
How can vice put out such amazing videos like the ones on the frontlines and have people putting this weird fringe stuff out? What is vice now? i dont understand..
Virtually every gay guy I know is a casual drug user and very few of them have a truly problematic relationship with drugs. That said, some have had close calls with GHB and a friend of a friend died of it. Most gay men really are more hedonistic than straights, and that's not simply because of "trauma." I actually think that its something to celebrate–we just need to minimize the risk that can come from sex and drugs.
Got numb the pain of rebellion against GOD.
DESTROYING THEIR BODIES
I loved vice so much growing up and i still have all the magazines. But i fucking hate your guts as a man now. I wonder whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Duh.
Sex and drugs and rock and roll is all my brain and body needs
Sex and drugs and rock and roll is very good indeed
Bring back GAVIN
I’m gay, and this title is homophobic. 👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿👎🏿
4:08 where did this dude gain such a confidence🤣
So true around the corner there's some guy that lives in he's truck. he's separated from his wife 2 grown kids lost his gardening business strung out on meth and living with his transgender girlfriend.
Back in the 90's meth was called queer juice.
depression. when people live even minorly oppressed lives, they turn to substance abuse
I learned alot
Chemsex existed way before people were on apps about it. I'm so confused.