Ian Kumamoto

Nightlife

When a ‘Queer’ Party Is Overrun By Straight People

Call it ‘queerbaiting’ if you must, but nightlife needs to face up to the problem.
Ian Kumamoto
5.9.23
Harm Reduction

Why Ketamine Makes You Dizzy—And When to Worry

It can be a total crapshoot what you’re really getting, so it's good to know the signs of a potential overdose.
Ian Kumamoto
4.11.23
Identity

The Triumphant Return of Dark Rooms and Cruising

Cruising never went anywhere, but it’s everywhere in queer nightlife now—and often more inclusive than ever before.
Ian Kumamoto
12.5.22
wellness

What to Do If You Can’t Sleep on MDMA

Trying to force sleep will only make a bad trip worse. VICE talked to experts about why this happens, and how to relax.
Ian Kumamoto
11.17.22
Pride March

Pride March’s New Plan to ‘Ban’ Cops Is Really Just Hiding Them

Keeping cops out of an event as big as NYC’s is harder than it sounds.
Ian Kumamoto
6.9.21
Environment

Biden Wants to Reopen a Child Detention Center on Top of Toxic Military Waste

Joe Biden is looking to reopen the children’s detention center in Homestead, Florida, which is situated in an area so polluted it’s been designated unfit for residents.
Ian Kumamoto
3.11.21
News

Biden Might Finally Ban a Pesticide that Studies Say Poisoned Kids' Brains for Decades

Even as farm workers alleged in lawsuits that chlorpyrifos had made them sick, Trump’s EPA refused to ban it. One of Biden’s first executive actions might change that.
Ian Kumamoto
1.29.21
News

Trump Is About to Hand Over Sacred Apache Land to a Mining Company

Trump officials are rushing to hand over Oak Flat in Arizona to Resolution Copper by next month, a full year ahead of schedule—while they still can.
Ian Kumamoto
11.26.20
Environment

A Fracked Gas Pipeline Is Coming to Brooklyn. Residents Are Invoking BLM to Fight It

Brownsville, the neighbourhood with the highest rates of asthma in New York City, is fighting to halt the construction of a fracked gas pipeline that could worsen its air quality even more.
Ian Kumamoto
10.15.20