Two DC gay bar regulars die together from fentanyl mixed into drugs

[quote] two widely known and beloved gay men

I’ll be the judge of that.

[quote] and how it is impacting the LGBTQ community.

Oh, gawd.

It’s LGBTQIA, cis cracker Zionist scum!

Thinning of the herd. Darwinism at its finest.

Amateurs.

[quote] has triggered an outcry for the city and the community to become more aggressive in addressing the opioid overdose problem and how it is impacting the LGBTQ community.

I can solve this.

Stop doing drugs.

*sniff*

An addendum to R1,

"two widely known and beloved gay men"

Widely known within the questionable and reprobate microcosm they associated with in DC.

Feel sad for their family. They willingly participated in a path of self destruction so just another fatal DC story. I wonder how long it took their "friends" from their "widely known" circle to loot the house for drugs and pawnable valuables? Guess they will have take down those Grindr profiles now. " A "gay wannabes that pushed the envelope too far.

Why do we celebrate self destruction?

^Because gay men pick up development at about 14 when they first started feeling outcasted from their peers. Rarely will you ever see an article about heterosexuals that depict their "beloved" status in the community as follows:

"Both men were regular patrons at popular D.C. gay bars, including the gay nightclub and dance bar Bunker and the recently opened gay bar and lounge Shakers."

They were cool and we must put them on a pedestal because they were party animals! Only gays would think this is something that needs to be published in an article about a voluntary drug overdose. Or that an article about a voluntary drug overdose about two privileged men who should know better needs to be published at all.

PNP gone wrong.

Handsome guys

It appears that some older millennials -- who really should know better -- still think drugs are as safe today as they were in their heyday. But they're wrong.

"voluntary drug overdose"

Wow, the cretinous bitter unfuckable unfucked crabapple trolls above.

Accidental drug overdose. Reckless perhaps, sure. Party boys should be checking all their drug supply for fent.

“two widely known and beloved gay men”

Oxymoron.

So glad I never liked coke.

I’m in my 50s and have seen it all. I’ve seen friends disappear into addiction and the collapse of their mental and physical health. A couple died. This is just tragic.

Can I have their stuff?

R13 Pretty sure no one was holding a gun to their head when they decided to par-tay.

Please stop with your enablist BS. One already had a receding hairline, she should have known better.

Sometimes you play with fire and get burned.

VOLUNTARY.

You seem pleasant and helpful! /s

"Accidental Drug Overdose" No one told these guys to take any drugs.

Listen schoolmarm Nancy Reagan cunts, it is accidental overdose if you are a recreational drug user with some experience and you snort a line of coke and drop dead because it's fentanyl. It's reckless, but is not "VOLUNTARY DRUG OVERDOSE". I agree recreational drug uses now need to up their precautions, or stop taking illicit street drugs.

If a passenger had been sucked out of that plane when the hidden door blew out, would that have been voluntary air traffic death because he didn't anticipate a faulty aircraft? You decided to fly and trust the aircraft!

If you go skiing and chair lift dumps you to your death, is that voluntary ski death? You decided to go do a dangerous sport, after all!

Thanks for teaching the children, r21, and we should add there are sober types and people impacted by addiction who approach things like R18 for valod reasons, and there's not much point in engaging with them when they say inflammatory things.

You would think a major US city like DC would be able to track overdose deaths by gender, race, sexual preference if known etc.

often significant and deadly problems spread among certain groups and no one knows because random events are not often seen as part of a bigger connected picture.

I wonder how many deaths each year national for gay men directly related in someway to drug use?

Spoken like a true druggie, R21.

Suck my limp coke dick, R24.

Lmao @ ‘one already had a receding hairline, she should have known better’. DL, don’t ever change.

[quote] Suck my limp coke dick, [R24].

Fingers crossed you get a surprise in your next bump.

What a wonderful person you've become, r,27!

I live around the corner from Bunker which is a relatively new gay bar in town (Shakers is even newer and is located not too far away).

Bunket charges a very high cover because most of the gays there are “partying” and don’t drink so they need to make up the difference. It’s located underground under a Subway shop on the ground level and a restaurant/club on top.

This is the historic intersection (14th and U Street Northwest) where the 1968 riots ignited following B the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s also one block away from the famous, black-owned Ben’s Chili Bowl which was untouched during the riots and still operates today.

R21 Is a recreational drug user who's shocked people don't feel sorry for drug addict deaths.

so where are the piggy alt twitters?

It's still a human being's life, R30. Your world must be really terrible of you've.sunk this low. It's not normal,.let alone humane. Good luck to you.

You have to be a fucking moron to try to take coke, or meth, or any other illegal white substance, these days. It’s probably fentanyl.

[quote] It's still a human being's life, [R30]. Your world must be really terrible of you've.sunk this low. It's not normal,.let alone humane. Good luck to you.

You're really terrible at being patronizing.

You're really terrible at comebacks.

R21 is someone who understands that words have meanings.

You can think the two men deserved it or even that the world is better off without them. You can argue that it was stupid to voluntarily take drugs. Those are opinions. But it’s beyond stupid to insist that it was a voluntary drug overdose.

A voluntary drug overdose is a suicide or suicide attempt. Unless there was intent to overdose, the overdose was not voluntary.

It's hard to feel especially sorry about this.

I'm sorry they were so dumb?

R34 Human beings who thought so little of their lives that they set themselves up for their own demise? Selfishly.

There are people dying in the world through no choice of their own (i.e,, Gaza) yet where is the outrage and sympathy for them?

Geez get over your recreational user self. Hope your booty bump is worth it.

This is just a cunting troll, trolling away with provocations. Dead souled, of course.

A lot of dumb gays here trying to apologize to two selfish gay parties who only thought about instant gratification.

This BS is why they hate us.

There is more than one person who has your M.O., troll.

You've failed.

OMG two less vapid DC cunts and the world is coming to and end.

Well, smell Judgmental Judy at r40.

OMG drugs are just like Skittles! Two lives who just wanted some Skittles!

You judgmental queens not mourning these lives!

LOL

Those here attacking these men have zero compassion. Was it stupid of them? Sure. But tell me now — you’ve never done a single stupid thing in your life? Not once? You’re going to pretend you’ve never once used bad judgement? GTFOH with your bullshit. ALL people have done stupid things at one time or another — some much more stupid than others. But unless you can sit here and tell us that you’ve never ever ever done a single stupid thing in your life, you need to FOAD.

Sorry not sorry.

You make mistakes you pay the price, like we all have.

dumbfuck for sure!

The best ride or die you’ll ever find...except I never die 👻❤️🌈

trolls

R46

“Zero compassion” :-)

That may be the funniest dl line of 2024 so far. Here at DL there are constant calls for the deaths of others. Some times one person some time millions.

Zero compassion :-)

[quote] Sources familiar with D.C.’s LGBTQ nightlife scene say widespread reports on social media of the sudden and unexpected deaths of two widely known and beloved gay men from an apparent accidental drug overdose on Dec. 27 at one of the men’s homes has triggered an outcry for the city and the community to become more aggressive in addressing the opioid overdose problem and how it is impacting the LGBTQ community.

There is nothing in the article supporting the claim the deaths triggered an outcry for the city and community to become more aggressive in addressing the opioid overdose problem. There are just examples of how groups and the community are attempting to address it.

This might be nitpicking, but “outcry” implies a demand for or a complaint about the lack of something without action on behalf of the outcryer. It’s possible there was an outcry, but the claim isn’t supported.

I think the article would have inspired fewer unsympathetic responses if it had said, “has triggered the community to initiate programs to provide Narcan and training in its use.”

yes the "publication" is just boilerplate pabulum of our times. Still, it's sad people are ODing who had no intent to die, just have fun, in their own fashion. I think it's sad junkies od on bad drugs, too. Not every junkie has a death wish. Believe it or not.

Robbie was a masseur among other more classy sounding jobs.

He also was attacked outside a bar (imagine!) 5 years ago.

Well, he didn’t hide any of the drugs in that hairline!

I actually thought the rest of the article was surprising well researched and presented, R52!

OK then I'll have another look.

This is terribly sad, as the unexpected loss of any human life is. But it really makes me roll my eyes to the back of my head when our people exploit tragedies like this to try and connect them specifically to the plight of the LGBTQ community. Fentanyl lacing is absolutely NOT specific to the gay community, nor is recreational drug use. We're not being specifically targeted here, and we're not being impacted any more than any other community. The fentanyl crisis is one of the most equal-opportunity killers out there right now. Frat boys and queens, hedge fund managers and housewives, rich, poor, black, white—literally anyone who uses illicit drugs, whether it's their first time or 1,000th can be killed by fentanyl lacing.

I'm all for gay nightlife venue owners becoming more proactive about protecting their patrons by supplying testing strips and narcan, but it doesn't do us or anyone else any favors by attempting to create a greater association than there already is between illicit drug use and the gay community. This week it was two gay east coast barflies, a couple of weeks ago it was three straight midwestern football bros. And neither party was any more "stupid" than a woman who gets her drink roofied at a club and ends up being raped or killed. There are still PLENTY of people that aren't aware how widespread the use of fentanyl cutting/contamination truly is—including plenty of people here on the last few threads concerning it. Hopefully that is beginning to change.

Won't ANYONE think of the POC tranny prostitutes?!?!

R57

And yet of the many forums I have read on over the last few decades DL is the only one where PnP meth using posters show up to entertain with great stories of great highs and great sex.

Of course the gay community has a greater use of meth and coke and poppers than the overall general population.

If you walk up to most people in any mall in the US and say you are doing a survey on PnP or chem sex they would look at you like you were talking gibberish. They would have no idea what you were talking about.

I think the article would have had fewer unsympathetic responses if it didn't try to canonize another duo of selfish, hedonistic A gays.

What made them "selfish". What about A gays? Do they even exist anymore? And these two, in DC? "A"?

R61 Give it up, gurl

We all know what circles these two ran in and the lost the race.

They were not representing the gay community by any stretch of the imagination; stop making them our martyrs.

And yea, fentanyl existed before and after them. R57. Thank you.

[QUOTE]Robbie was a masseur among other more classy sounding jobs.

[QUOTE]He also was attacked outside a bar (imagine!) 5 years ago.

Jesus fucking Christ, r53, are you really trying flip about a gay bashing, or worse, trying to imply it was deserved? What kind of a useless POS are you? Go back Truth Social and wallow with your little Q friends.

Nobody "represents the gay community" anymore. Everything and everyone is post community.

[QUOTE] And these two, in DC? "A"?

No, they were not.

Actually looking to see if they would be ones to have alt-piggy-twitters, and it looks like they would have.

Yes, my point. But our trolls are throwing whatever they can at the walls. Nothing is sticking.

Oh! and not to judge them for being sex positive, but for my own entertainment.

R67 Yes the walls need something. How about;

"Heaven must have needed two party gurlz."

[quote]Nobody "represents the gay community" anymore. Everything and everyone is post community.

I think there's still role model potential strengthening the courage of young people to come out when it's complicated, which in many places it still is. So a Jonathan Bailey, for example is a representative. But after those early years, you make your own choices, absolutely. I don't know why the younger guy was living that life but the old guy was just a sad leftover from a period of his youth that had passed.

[quote]But tell me now — you’ve never done a single stupid thing in your life?

Not that stupid, no.

This is why I just say no to drugs these days.

We hold these truths to be self evident, that all stupid is not created equal.

An attorney involved in LGBTQ rights, Brandon Roman, 38, is "a sad leftover from a period of his youth that had passed" because he goes to gay bars? Some people are just social that way.

Knowing anything at all about the risk of white powder in 2024, this is simply just another variation of Russian Roulette.

Why would anyone with a brain want to play Russian Roulette?

Entitlement. They think it won't happen to them.

Brandon Roman was a BYU alumnus.

[quote] and we're not being impacted any more than any other community.

"Impacted" is not a real verb, unless you are talking about molars. The word you want is "affected."

If only Madonna's adopted children had been there, to spring into action with their Narcan training!

impact

2 of 2 verb im·​pact im-ˈpakt impacted; impacting; impacts transitive verb

1 a : to have a direct effect or impact on : impinge on b : to strike forcefully also : to cause to strike forcefully 2 a : to fix firmly by or as if by packing or wedging b : to press together

[quote] Can I have their stuff?

Like their drugs?

man you dc gays are certainly not as smart as you think you are.

No, R74, because he does drugs. Are you or stupid?

Sorry, did drugs. His tense has changed since his last bump.

A good amount of professionals in important cities around the world do recreational drugs into their 40s, easily.

Wishful thinking. Take another hit.

JFC. I can't believe people are still partying like it's the 80s.

Very sad.

Or the 70s. Or the 60s. Or the 20s.

R85 And if they die, then they knew the risks. Hardly worth a news article or any outcry for recreational drug safety campaigns.

The compassionate recreational drug advocates in this thread are a hoot.

[quote] Come to Honor their Lives in Your Best Sparkles and Shimmers – Saturday, February 3rd 5-8pm at Shakers,” according to an announcement by Shakers posted on Instagram of a celebration of life for Roman and Barletta.

At least the drug bar was able to squeeze a themed costume party out of this tragedy.

R88, ain't nobody partied like it's 1899! Now those fuckers knew how to Netflix & chill!

Where was Ronny Jackson? He was stocking up on fentanyl when he was the WH physician. He’s in congress now, a regular in DC.

I think we should also understand that these two were highly engaged in the "A" gay party scene in DC. People in this club , clique or group frequently reject anyone who is not young, white,fit and in that upper income range. It's a high school mindset driven popularity contest. Not crying any tears, I have been close to those circles in DC , they are despicable people for the the most part.

If you're a recreational drug user, you should pay more for health insurance and your life insurance eligibility/cost should be the same as for smokers. Rehab should be covered however. Was there a Go Fund Me for the two despite both their high incomes? Did the Crew Club observe a moment of silence in their honor?

R93

A slippery slope indeed because some might want to then look at increased infectious disease risk as well when looking at higher insurance rates.

Don’t do drugs.

Problem solved.

[quote] I think we should also understand that these two were highly engaged in the "A" gay party scene in DC.

Being part of such a scene would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic. And apparently even the drugs in DC are second rate.

"A lists" and "gay party" scenes were possibly a thing 15-20 years ago.

Dopers. I assume the obligatory GoFund Begfest is imminent?

[quote]"A lists" and "gay party" scenes were possibly a thing 15-20 years ago.

Did you see one of the dead guys? So was he. Can't explain the twink.