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Podcast: In Ya Face
Episode: Dr Maurice Nagington, Chemsex research; Julian Wa's new single 'Bloom'; Caroline Ridler, Switchboard's QTIPoC Projects
Description: We speak with Dr Maurice Nagington, a researcher at the University of Manchester in the UK, about his research paper ‘The paradox of chemsex: bringing people together and breaking the gay community apart’. We discuss the cultural representations of sex and drugs as they relate to gay men in film, literature and artwork, and how chemsex impacts on gay capitalism and the gay scene.Content/ trigger warning: This interview contains discussions and/or descriptions of drug use and/or drug paraphernalia, sex, and strong themes and language, that may be distressing to some listeners. If the content raises questions or caus...