It’s bodies—sweaty, glittered, exposed—writhing under disco lights. It’s cruising at half-lit bars, sending eyes at someone across a sticky panelled floor. It’s queer bowling teams, T4T speed dating, “gaymer” nights. Even daytime socializing—run clubs and sports leagues—comes with the promise, or rather incentive, of rubbing elbows when the sun goes down.
The spaces these events happen in—bars, clubs, converted warehouses—have a close association with drugs and alcohol. It’s access that we’re certainly taking advantage of. According to the national non-profit Community-Based Research Centre’s Sex Now survey, the largest health survey of queer and trans people in Canada, more than three quarters of 2024 respondents say they’ve engaged with substances in the past six months… read more.
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