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Gay men once veloped s to ensure safety the hunt for sex. Can they help #MeToo do the same?

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WHY HASN’T THE GAY MUNY HAD A #METOO MOMENT?

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Arsh Raziudd, The History Project: Documentg LGBTQ Boston; Luciano Marqu/ShutterstockCisg the Age of ConsentGay men once veloped s to ensure safety the hunt for sex. Edor’s Note: This article is part of a seri about the gay-rights movement and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg. Huntg for answers to one of life’s great qutns, the lbian wrer Ra Mae Brown pasted on a mtache 1975 and walked to a bathhoe for gay men.

TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED

The nversatn around nsent for gay men has been stifled. We mt regnise the culture of sexual asslt that exists, wr Michael Segalov * gay metoo *

But many gay men might not fd the scene so strange.

Even so, 50 years after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn talyzed the mastream LGBTQ movement, gay people still mata spher of separatn om the wir world: nightclubs, vatn spots, and datg apps where like n meet like. ”Sex spac such as the ll back to when queer life had to be furtive, for fear of danger, but also when, almost paradoxilly, gay men found safety and eroticism by surrenrg privacy together.

Cisg gay Ameri now mostly happens onle, but some patterns of behavr haven’t died. To dance on a summer night at Provcetown’s Atlantic Hoe, one of the untry’s olst gay bars, is to feel the loss of bodily tonomy that any crowd supercharged by the wi prumptn of flirtg.

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