Gay park cruising

Marcus McCann. Credit: Jason Lee. Park Cruising weaves together personal experiences, sociological observation, legal analysis and queer history, citing examples of cruising grounds around the world. But what happened in Marie Curtis Park remains the key reference point throughout the book.

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At its peak, this community consisted of hundreds of queer men, most of them rural-to-urban migrants living nearby, but also some accidental visitors or people who had heard about the park from other gay men or on social media. But over the past few decades, as cosmopolitan consumer spaces and gay bars have sprouted up across urban areas, the act of cruising in public parks has shifted from being a shared secret to an outdated practice — one that embodies the shame and danger associated with homosexuality in earlier eras.

The most famous gay cruising areas in the world: past and present

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The Freddie Guide to: Cruising

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