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Tom Rasmussen examined its legacy and impact: "So why do we 'do what we do? Cruising […] is born just as much out of need as it is out of want!”
When your identity is forbidden, there is a need beyond physical desire, a human need to be who we truly are if only for a moment. For centuries, the only way to satisfy this need was through cruising […]
— Mar 26, 2026 05:21AM
When your identity is forbidden, there is a need beyond physical desire, a human need to be who we truly are if only for a moment. For centuries, the only way to satisfy this need was through cruising […]
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Cruising can be viewed as our need to connect with one another […] out of the necessity all marginalized groups have: the desire to be with one's own kind. Somewhat similar to ways in which many immigrants […] reshape and reimagine entire neighborhoods and essentially re-create the towns and Villages they left behind, gay men have taken […] anonymous locations and transformed these for the survival of the group
— Apr 23, 2026 08:50AM
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Aaron Betsky writes, “The queerest space of all is the void, and AIDS has made us live in that emptiness, that absence, that loss… It is not a queer space any of us would want to inhabit, but many have been forced to make it their own.”
— Apr 23, 2026 07:49AM
