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Chemsex the Silent Crisis in the LGBTQ Community

5 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker highlights chemsex as the most significant healthcare crisis facing the LGBTQ community since the AIDS epidemic, emphasizing that its impact is magnified by pervasive stigma and silence, which can be fatal. The speaker references Ignacio, founder of the organization Controlling Chemsex, and cites the play “Jock Night” as a valuable but limited artistic effort to raise awareness, noting its geographic constraints. To achieve wider impact, the speaker argues for more scalable communication channels such as printed media, especially as Controlling Chemsex already serves clients across India and Asia, indicating a need for global, accessible outreach to combat the crisis.

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As the founder of Controlling Chemsex, Ignacio, has been saying, it's probably the biggest healthcare crisis to hit the LGBT community since AIDS. It's massive. It's— what it has in common with that is the silence around it as well. That's right. It's shrouded in stigma. And silence equals death. We have to talk about it. There are lots of plays on— there's a play called Jock Night on— it's about to start in Manchester, I think, and I saw it when it was in London. And that's really good, but it's a play, you know, that's like, it can't really reach all of America and Australia. I mean, Controlling Chemsex, we're getting clients from India and Asia, and a play can't have the same reach as something like printed media.