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Larry Craig, R-Idaho, a men's rtroom at the Mneapolis airport for allegedly lookg to engage gay sex wrote his June report that he "regnized a signal ed by persons wishg to engage lewd nduct. Craig told reporters today that he did nothg appropriate and said his guilty plea was a plac like men's rtrooms, airports and tra statns, tck stops, universy librari and parks, have long been plac where gay and bisexual men, particularly those the closet, ngregate orr to meet for anonymo time, people faiar wh cisg told, gay men began g a dified system of signals to dite to others that they were terted sex. In an effort to curb lewd acts public — or as some gays argue, an effort to persecute gay men — unrver police began stg operatns plac known for sex solicg and employed the same s.

Bee much of the signalg is self benign behavr, some gay rights activists and lawyers have admonished police partments for arrtg men who have done ltle more than tap their feet. "Cizens have a right not to nont lewd activy public plac, " said Steve Sanrs, a lawyer and gay rights activist. "But if there is evince that a stg is motivated by anti-gay anim, that may reprent a more troublg issue.

If a se like this went to trial, police officers would have to produce evince to say here is how we n say wh certaty this is was really a lewd act, " he plead guilty to the charg and therefore opted agast a, Craig nied beg gay and said he ma a mistake by pleadg officers, for the most part, only vtigate an area after members of the public have plaed about beg ed for sex, said Rich Gregson, executive director of the California Peace Officers Associatn.

THIS GAY MAN’S CISG ADVENTURE THE TOILET STALLS OF AN OPERA HOE DID NOT GO AS PLANNED: WATCH

"Wh many other optns available for gay men to meet each other, Gershen Kfman, a profsor emer of psychology at Michigan State Universy and thor of the book "Comg Out of Shame, " said public cisg is practiced maly by eply closeted men. The spegoats 1962 were gay were gay people livg this cy forever — every generatn of the cy’s history. Mansfielrs have always had gay neighbors who were more or ls obv, more or ls known or wantg to be regnized as such.

Certa profsns the bs of nductg a cy have always been typilly and stereotypilly staffed by gay people, and wasn’t ever really a urse every generatn you have the haters and bigots and judgmental folks who sist that everyone be jt like them.

But as far as opprsg the gay muny go was not as big a al as, say, Italians and Pol the 1890s, or Ain-Amerins the 1910s, or even Irish the 1860s. Gays were jt another cultural mory that were part of the meltg 1But 1962, Ameri had jt e through a of very nasty wch-huntg for Communists; scientists were droppg atomic bombs the Pacific and talkg about how many lns of Amerins our enemi uld kill wh siar bombs. In 1962 the word “gay” meant happy and reee, and at that time our current nnotatn for the word did not yet exist.