SAMHSA’s shift away from harm reduction cost the Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition a $400,000 grant and cut off federal funding for syringes and fentanyl test strips. The Kentucky organizers serving Black and brown communities explain what they lost, and the workarounds keeping people alive.
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A queer raver’s journey through grief, psychedelics, body image, and finding sobriety.
Queer Kentucky is placing harm reduction lockers in businesses across the Bluegrass State.
Chemsex and Party and Play culture have ravaged the gay community for decades. Considering the history of this problem, are hook-up apps doing enough to combat the epidemic on their platforms?
Queer Kentucky introduces a special project about all things harm reduction.
The RPDR Season 17 Finalist has entered a 30-day treatment facility in Texas.
Chemsex, or combining drugs with sex, poses serious health risks but harm reduction and support can help. 🌈💊 Learn more about the realities, risks, and resources.
Attending Louder Than Life this weekend? Check out the 1 Million Strong tent. The music industry, a hub of entertainment and creativity, is also a sector riddled with substance abuse, much like our own queer community. With 56 percent of industry professionals grappling with addiction, there has been a push to address the severe […]
art by Ceirra Evans The path of addiction and recovery is not linear. That is something that Lucas Blackburn and Josh Shaw can attest to in their recovery journeys. Currently, Blackburn has been sober for nearly four years, and Shaw has been sober for six and a half years. Despite this, it wasn’t always this […]
by Lantern staff, Kentucky Lantern September 20, 2024 The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department has issued an overdose alert for Lexington. The health department reports a spike in suspected nonfatal drug overdoses with 24 reported in four days, Sept 17-20, according to information from the Overdose Detection Mapping Application System (ODMAP). “This is an important time […]
photos by Milkman Photography The booze beginning I did not grow up with queer people around me in rural Kentucky. But, I did have a fabulous, good country woman as a grandmother. She taught me how to cook, how to be myself no matter what anyone thought, and how to fight to survive in a […]
I got addicted to drugs because I wanted to be cool. The cool kids in high school, the ones who listened to Dead Kennedys and Current Joys and wore their pants cuffed and talked about communism all smoked cigarettes. So I started to smoke cigarettes. I still remember the smugness on my face and sense […]
Queer Kentucky was built on a foundation of community. And as an organization that lives and breathes community, we are acutely aware of when our members are hurting. LGBTQ+ people are succumbing to substance use disorder at an alarming rate and Queer Kentucky is determined to loudly discuss this topic through a series of stories […]
Queer Kentucky was built on a foundation of community. And as an organization that lives and breathes community, we are acutely aware of when our members are hurting. LGBTQ+ people are succumbing to substance use disorder at an alarming rate and Queer Kentucky is determined to loudly discuss this topic through a series of stories […]
by Richard Addison He/Him/His Queer Kentucky was built on a foundation of community. And as an organization that lives and breathes community, we are acutely aware of when our members are hurting. LGBTQ+ people are succumbing to substance use disorder at an alarming rate and Queer Kentucky is determined to loudly discuss this topic through […]
By Aaron Guldenschuh-Gatten he/him One June weekend, on a Friday, I arrived at the crest of a hill on a hundred-acre farm, deep in the rolling wooded hills of Central Kentucky. The setting summer sun bathed the distant pasture in gold as waves of tall grass seemed to whisper to me. A close-by friend, also […]
