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Alex Abad-Santos

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Appearances Over Time

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It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

As a gay man of a certain age, I can confidently say that gay guys love poppers or have loved poppers. But I would say that it's mostly like a queer party drug now. Like the aforementioned Charli XCX, she famously had some meet and greets. She signed some poppers and they become kind of like this pop culture meme.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

As a gay man of a certain age, I can confidently say that gay guys love poppers or have loved poppers. But I would say that it's mostly like a queer party drug now. Like the aforementioned Charli XCX, she famously had some meet and greets. She signed some poppers and they become kind of like this pop culture meme.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

As a gay man of a certain age, I can confidently say that gay guys love poppers or have loved poppers. But I would say that it's mostly like a queer party drug now. Like the aforementioned Charli XCX, she famously had some meet and greets. She signed some poppers and they become kind of like this pop culture meme.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

in pop culture, right? Like, there's symbolic shorthand for, I'm having a good time. I'm going out dancing. I'm going to maybe a queer party where the queer people will be there and will be silly. Also, there's, like, the undertone of sex.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

in pop culture, right? Like, there's symbolic shorthand for, I'm having a good time. I'm going out dancing. I'm going to maybe a queer party where the queer people will be there and will be silly. Also, there's, like, the undertone of sex.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

in pop culture, right? Like, there's symbolic shorthand for, I'm having a good time. I'm going out dancing. I'm going to maybe a queer party where the queer people will be there and will be silly. Also, there's, like, the undertone of sex.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

And I think, like, the whole pop cultural, like, ephemera of, like, Charlie XCX sniffing poppers kind of makes it, like, this tongue-in-cheek joke about people who know what poppers are. So when you have this, like, serious story of an FDA rig allegedly going after business... I think there's this kind of like initial shock that's kind of like, okay, well, why?

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

And I think, like, the whole pop cultural, like, ephemera of, like, Charlie XCX sniffing poppers kind of makes it, like, this tongue-in-cheek joke about people who know what poppers are. So when you have this, like, serious story of an FDA rig allegedly going after business... I think there's this kind of like initial shock that's kind of like, okay, well, why?

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

And I think, like, the whole pop cultural, like, ephemera of, like, Charlie XCX sniffing poppers kind of makes it, like, this tongue-in-cheek joke about people who know what poppers are. So when you have this, like, serious story of an FDA rig allegedly going after business... I think there's this kind of like initial shock that's kind of like, okay, well, why?

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

But also like, okay, how serious is this?

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

But also like, okay, how serious is this?

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

But also like, okay, how serious is this?

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

I mean, I think queer people are not unfamiliar with being painted as deviants. That is the rhetoric that has come from the right wing in the last five, ten years. It's just like, oh my gosh, it's a deviant lifestyle, whatnot. Queer people are not strangers being painted in a certain way.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

I mean, I think queer people are not unfamiliar with being painted as deviants. That is the rhetoric that has come from the right wing in the last five, ten years. It's just like, oh my gosh, it's a deviant lifestyle, whatnot. Queer people are not strangers being painted in a certain way.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

I mean, I think queer people are not unfamiliar with being painted as deviants. That is the rhetoric that has come from the right wing in the last five, ten years. It's just like, oh my gosh, it's a deviant lifestyle, whatnot. Queer people are not strangers being painted in a certain way.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

but I do think that like poppers puts people in a weird space of like, if you defend poppers, are you defending like this kind of like illicit lifestyle? Right. And then it becomes this idea of like respectability politics, which like it again, queer people are no stranger to respectability politics.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

but I do think that like poppers puts people in a weird space of like, if you defend poppers, are you defending like this kind of like illicit lifestyle? Right. And then it becomes this idea of like respectability politics, which like it again, queer people are no stranger to respectability politics.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

but I do think that like poppers puts people in a weird space of like, if you defend poppers, are you defending like this kind of like illicit lifestyle? Right. And then it becomes this idea of like respectability politics, which like it again, queer people are no stranger to respectability politics.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

It's just like the whole fight for like queer rights and like trans rights and equality is like overcoming this idea that like someone who who you don't agree with, who is like maybe as different physically, emotionally, spiritually than you has the same rights as you.

It's Been a Minute
Poppers, the FDA, & a crackdown decades in the making

It's just like the whole fight for like queer rights and like trans rights and equality is like overcoming this idea that like someone who who you don't agree with, who is like maybe as different physically, emotionally, spiritually than you has the same rights as you.