Alex Espinoza: "El cruising is based on equality"
GAYLES.TV.- El cruising remains a public space claim and the way to create a place where men of all races and classes interact even in the shadow of repressive governments. Nor the algorithms of Grindr They have displaced a practice as secret as usual.
In "Cruising Intimate story of a radical hobby«, published by Two mustaches, Alex Spinoza guides us on an uncensored journey through the timeless art of sex between men in public places. This son of Mexicans who migrated to United States he grew up in Los Angeles. Random House he published his two previous novels «Still water saints»(2007) and The Five Acts of Diego Leon(2013).
«Cruising Intimate story of a radical hobby» travel from the Ancient Greece to the famous "molly houses" (clandestine places scattered throughout the city where men met to attend transvestite shows, flirt and have sex) of the England XNUMXth century; from the effervescent 70 years even the cases of Oscar Wilde y George Michael that supposed a social scandal.
Secret Encounters
Espinoza He has combined a research exercise, with oral history and with some doses of his own experience: “El cruising It helped me realize that men needed me and wanted me. After some encounters I learned that my anatomy was, in fact, unique. And this awareness gave me confidence, an arrogance that helped me see the world around me in another way”, Explains the author.
"Cruising gave me a purpose. This 'deviant' act strengthened my consciousness in relation to my body. The culture of secret encounters, of intimacy and of lust allowed trust to take root within me, supplanting any feeling of insecurity that I had developed and with which I had learned to live", writes Espinoza. "El cruising is based on equality”, The author continues, which states that rejection is so essential to the experience of the cruising Like sexual success.
Source: Two mustaches, eldiario.es, The Spanish
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