'At gay bars and clubs in West Hollywood, he felt shunned and alone. With cruising, though, imbalances of race and class, age and body type, were drowned out.'
In “Cruising,” L.A. author Alex Espinoza offers a cultural history of gay hookups in public spaces.
In “Cruising,” L.A. author Alex Espinoza offers a cultural history of gay hookup sex in public spaces. The book’s subtitle, “An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime,” roots the author’s argument in terms of power. Cruising, Espinoza argues, is the signal act of resistance at the heart of queerness . The book’s epigraph is from”: “The promiscuous homosexual is a sexual revolutionary. Each moment of his outlaw existence he confronts repressive laws, repressive ‘morality.
Author Alex Espinoza at his home in Los Angeles. Espinoza is director of the graduate creative writing and literary arts program at Cal State L.A. Cruising had the power to erase most of the inequities Espinoza struggled with. He was a poor Latino kid with a non-standard body and the wrong clothes. At gay bars and clubs in West Hollywood, he felt shunned and alone. With cruising, though, imbalances of race and class, of age and body type, were drowned out, mostly, by the rustle of clicking belt buckles and opened zippers, of jeans dropping around ankles to land on the floor.
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