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June 30, 1976: A legacy of drugs
Advocate, The, Dec 22, 1998
Recent drug-related deaths at circuit parties reveal the low end of the high lives of some lesbians and gay men. On June 30, 1976, Advocate reporter Karen West examined the ways gay people used drugs during that more permissive era.
Miles Cline, a longtime alcoholic who had recently become sober, said he didn't see a difference between gay and straight drug use but that there were differences among gay drug users themselves. "There's a pecking order in the gay community," he said. "The prestige faggot takes prestige drugs like cocaine. The down-and-out gay drunk drinks Mad Dog, while the higher class sips martinis."
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Michael Montgomery, a drug counselor with an all-gay caseload, said he worried "about [gay] men and women who don't feel socially and/or sexually assertive unless they've had a drink or a joint." He said he believed these people had "never learned basic social skills."
Kathleen Pruitt, of the Seattle-King County Drug Commission, added, "We need to teach respect for the dignity of individual human beings and ... all human life.... We need to teach people how to cope with pain constructively."
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