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FEEL THE RUSH A timeline of the pop culture treatment of poppers

2023 will be remembered for many things. Top of our list? Barbie, Beyoncé, tube girl and Troye Sivan’s ‘Rush’: a song that got the girls, gays, theys and even the straight boys singing about feeling hot, steamy and sexy as their hole loosens and their brain goes fuzzy on poppers.

With this watershed moment of poppers representation front of mind, it feels like amyl nitrate has truly gone mainstream. As we head into 2024, it seems like pretty much everyone – except maybe Reba McEntire – knows about the euphoric effects of the semi-legal party drug that has been passed around dark rooms and cruising spots for decades.

Here, we look

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