Criusing gay
The Freddie Guide to: Cruising
What is gay cruising?
Straight cruising is a vacay on a boat. Gay cruising is the art of hooking up in general.
Cruising is almost always anonymous, and can be one-on-one, in groups, or with others watching. It’s done by using non-verbal cues to show you’re both interested – consider of it like a secret, horny code. Some people will have sex right there, while some may take their spouse to a more subtle location.
Where did cruising appear from?
Cruising has a extended history in the gay community. There are recorded cruising spots in cities like Toronto, London and New York dating advocate over a hundred years. In the time before gay bars, when homosexuality was illegal, public places were often the only option for queer people to meet each other.
Evidence for this often comes from prosecution records – we know where people were cruising based on arrests for “sodomy” or “gross indecency”. These were historic offences made to criminalize gay sex, and were almost exclusively applied to queer men. Sodomy and indecency laws were common throughout the British Empire, but have been repealed in most countries.
In the US, anti-sodomy laws were r
"Gay Toronto," Where Are They Now? by Madeline Albert
by Madeline Albert
While perusing the ArQuives’ collection of The Body Politic newspapers, I found a map depicting the places to move in Toronto if you were gay. Locations included helpful organizations, clubs & restaurants, and places to “cruise” for a go out or one-night stand. While John Scythes' first chart published in the 7th issue in the Winter of 1973 was criticized by readers for favouring Toronto’s male-gay scene, the second version that was showcased in the 14th issue in July-August 1974 decidedly included more lesbian-centric locations.
This project was borne from the question of how these locations looked today and if any of them retained the same function as endorse in the 1970s. The creation involved visiting the locations (or approximate locations) of all of the proposed gay spots in Toronto and taking a photo of either the building or my finest guess at where the building would be based on the age of the facade and the relational location on the rudimentary map. It came as somewhat of a shock that the only buildings that retained their initial function were those whose primary functions were not ti
Brian Gerald Murphy
These days lots of gay guys are using Grindr for hooking up. But we didn’t always have sex available at our fingertips. For centuries (or longer!) gay and bi guys have establish ways to connect with each other, even when doing so was illegal. Most of us don’t come from queer families and so we don’t learn our LGBTQ history at home. So, I set out to discover the ways that lgbtq+ and bisexual guys contain met each other for friendship and sex. Here’s a brief history of gay cruising
These days lots of gay guys are using Grindr for hooking up. But we didn’t always have sex on hand at our fingertips. From bathhouses to bars, sex parties to saunas, even to parks and bathrooms. Gay guys have launch a way to detect each other, even before Grindr.
For the past 11 years, up until this past January, I lived in New York City. It’s one of the centers of lgbtq+ life in the Joined States. It’s a port city and after the sailors returned home from World War II, many of the guys who had found connecti
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My curiosity with cruising first started with the 1980 clip Cruising famously starring Al Pacino. My actual on-the-ground fieldwork with cruising started in Toronto, 1983, in a well-known cruising park. The park shall be unnamed but for those who recognize, know. It can still be set up just a minuscule north of Bloor Street East and still maintains the same name but has lost its reputation as a cruising ground.
Back then I would bury my stuff in the ground before cruising. Yes. You read that correctly. I would bury my shorts, shirt, socks, keys, wallet and be left wearing my running shoes, jockstrap and baseball cap. I would have my cigarettes, lighter and poppers in the strap of my jockstrap. Now I was ready to hit the bushes.
Looking back, I cannot believe I buried my stuff in the soil in the dim and could recall where I did this after hours of sex in the woods. That was the second use of my cigarette lighter. The first was to light my cigarettes or the one of a handsome stranger leaning against a tree “looking for a light,” and the second use was as a torch to help me earn dressed and proceed home.
From this encounter, I gained a lot of knowledge…