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How did toilet cruising work?
February 17, 2015 3:19 PM Subscribe

I was reading an same-sex attracted travel guide from 1980, and it reminded me that I've never understood the mechanics of the toilet pick-up. One of the notable features of the guide is that among all the bars and bathhouses listed, many locations also suggest cruising toilets. This seems soinherently sketchy. How would you know when it was safe to signal to somebody? Don't you dash the constant risk of an embarrassing and deadly confrontation? Do you actually have sex in the bathroom, or is a rendezvous point? And given that these locations are so well established that they appear in a travel guide, wouldn't they be easy pickings for the police?

Any info or stories about etiquette and risk mitigation would be of interest.

Bonus points if you can explain how toilet cruising worked in an international context. After a strong warning about how dangerous cruising is in the Middle East, for example, the guide lists toilets in Syria and Kuwait. There are similar listings throughout the planet. While cruising in the U.S. sounds risky, it seems like only those with a death hope would cruise toilets as a tou

Is it illegal for lgbtq+ boys to use lady bathrooms, at school?

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The Famous Underground Restroom in Central Park

When people are new to this area they ask me various questions about our past, and there is a fairly predictable sequence to these questions according to how long they’ve been here and what they have heard. Sooner or later everyone gets wind of the 1962 scandal in Mansfield, and they want to grasp about the famous underground restrooms in the Square.

It has been more than 50 years since it happened, but still people lower their voice when they mention it appreciate it might be a wound still too tender to touch.

The men who were there at the time—the ones who I interviewed 30 years ago—acted exactly the same way: they spoke of the event only in a hushed voice, or refused to speak of it at all. If there was one common legal title they all used to describe August of 1962 it was “witch-hunt.”

The Being and Times

Sociologists and historians of social psychology will tell you that every historic witch-hunt follows the same pattern—whether it was in Medieval Europe or Colonial Salem or in Congress of the 1950s—the stew has the equal ingredients:

Stage 1) A population of people is nervous, tense, unsettled and frightened;

Stage 2

Gay Bathroom Culture Question

Jophiel1

More back when I was a wee lad, but even on occassion now, I would notice messages scribed into the walls of public bathrooms that read:

Looking to grant BJ
09-12-89
7:15pm
Red jacket by 3rd stall

Now then, since I wasn’t in the market to gave strange guys carry out that sort of thing to me, I can’t say I ever popped by at 7:15. However, it seems to me that this is a better way to find the crap beat out of you than to get some sort of earthly delight. So, I figure…
(A) Gay bashers post such notes in order to beat up those who show up
(B) Gay people upload such notes and are beaten up by lgbtq+ bashers who respond
© Both A & B occur, which would produce for an interesting sight.
(D) Gay people upload such notes and are met by other lgbtq+ people and all is well.

Anyone know which of those was most frequent? Like I said, it seems like a hoax to me, but then I guess it was harder to meet homosexuals back then which would explain why you don’t see as many notes now (more acceptance). But even still, there’s got to be a surpass way. Oh well… such is the mind of white heterosexual upper-middle class suburban youth.