Poppers, Once a Fixture at Gay Clubs, Now a ‘Party Girl’ Favorite
The party blogger and aspiring “It” girl known as Meg Superstar Princess was at Rash, a club with a tiny dance floor in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn in March, when someone spilled a bottle of alkyl nitrites — better known as “poppers” — on the dance floor. “The whole place fumed up, it was amazing” said Meg, 24, whose real name is Meg Yates. “I feel like at any party I go to, eventually someone’s going to pull out the poppers.” She’s not totally exaggerating.
Several sources reported spotting poppers being sniffed recently at a 100 Gecs concert at Terminal 5, at a rowdy fashion week party at the Blond, and on the sweaty dance floor at Nowadays.
For those unfamiliar with the inhalant, poppers were popularized by gay men during the 1970s for sex and partying. Sold in little brown bottles, the alkyl nitrite is inhaled by the user.
It typically causes a head rush and can be a muscle relaxant. Poppers are also known as “liquid incense” or “tape cleaner,” and their pungent chemical smell has been a familiar scent in gay nightclubs and bedrooms for decades.
