Gay cruise areas
Cruising Spots
Because confidential places were largely a luxury, gay men did not have anywhere encounter partners under the Communist regime, and so they frequented some public places in the center of the Bucharest. Some were public restroom.
The dangers of such 'promiscuity' included vice squads that would patrol these cruising spaces to arrest homosexuals and prostitutes. They often showed up dressed in civilian clothes, trying to entrap male lover people alone or with the help of mobs of teenagers ready to assault gay men.
What cruising spots meant
Although men’s homosexual relations often left them feeling desperate at the situation they were living, they found an break out in the multiple cruising spaces in Bucharest, which in comparison to the former-USSR, did not contain a name for them. Having few places to socialize made it awfully hard to build a collective identity and people, or stable romantic relationships. Sexual relations between homosexual men often took place in parks, movie theatres, and public restrooms where the spark ignited, the need was met, and each continued with their own lives once they left the premises. Gara de Nord
Secret Signals: How Some Men Cruise for Sex
Aug. 28, 2007 — -- While many Americans may only be vaguely familiar with the idea of "cruising," there is a private world of sex between men that exists in public places across the country.
The police officer who arrested Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, in a men's restroom at the Minneapolis airport for allegedly looking to engage in homosexual sex wrote in his June report that he "recognized a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct."
Craig tapped his foot up and down and swiped his hand underneath the bathroom stall in which the undercover cop was sitting, according to the police report.
Those actions led to Craig's arrest by Detective Dave Karsnia and the senator's guilty plea to a disorderly manner charge. Craig told reporters today that he did nothing inappropriate and said his guilty plea was a mistake.
Public places favor men's restrooms, in airports and train stations, truck stops, university libraries and parks, have long been places where gay and bisexual men, particularly those in the closet, congregate in order to encounter for anonymous sex.
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Cruising
Cruising (we’re not talking ships) refers to searching for a sexual partner for an anonymous encounter, often a one-off. Cruising areas or sites include streets, parks, road lay-bys, (nudist) beaches or sand dunes and other public areas. Some sites have been around for decades, Hampstead Heath and Brompton Cemetery being two of the most (in) famous in London. Imagine a nightclub dark room but free and outdoors, but daytime can work just as well.
Of course, men discovery other men for sex has been going for centuries though the word ‘cruise’ is believed to come from the Dutch ‘kruisen’. The term was also used as code by closeted gay communities when homosexuality was illegal, and is the title of a 1980 American crime thriller film with Al Pacino. The production was poorly received and did nothing to intensify the meaning though the term has since been absorbed into the mainstream heterosexual vocabulary. Whatever its origins, the term cruising has stood the assess of time.
For some same-sex attracted men, cruising is about the excitement and rush of hooking up with a stranger alfresco. Way before Grindr and Gaydar, searching for speedy sex with a stranger was a creative and skilled pursuit an
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 common.
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 – deliberate of it like a secret, horny code. Some people will have sex right there, while some may take their loved one to a more modest location.
Where did cruising appear from?
Cruising has a extended history in the gender non-conforming community. There are recorded cruising spots in cities like Toronto, London and New York dating support 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
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