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How Queer Clubs Changed the Way We Take Drugs | News on Drugs

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How Queer Clubs Changed the Way We Take Drugs | News on Drugs

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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47 COMMENTS

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 .

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  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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..

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

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