I walked around the park grounds checking out the jubilant crowd of young partygoers. A gospel-sounding, organ-dominated groove played in…
A Spanish HIV/AIDS organization has launched a colorful video campaign meditating on queer men's chemsex experiences and their pursuit of…
Few years in living memory have been as dramatic and distressing as 2020, and many of us were glad to…
In May 2019 Louise Vincent, executive director of the Urban Survivors Union, urged privileged drug users to “come out” in…
The World Health Organization has declared that there is no safe level of drinking—a zero-tolerance, just-say-no approach to alcohol. Public…
Last year, I volunteered at a harm reduction center where fights and cold sweats broke out, war stories and grudges…
As New York City Mayor Rudolph Guliani's gentrifying assault on the gay West Village got underway in the 1990s, a…
On the surface, Joanna Harcourt-Smith had the kind of life many people dream of. As a young socialite in the…
One of the last memories I have of hanging out with my friend Jana (not her real name) was Halloween.…
People are drinking (and using marijuana) more during the pandemic. Alarms have predictably been raised, but anxiety is misdirected. RAND…