'All-Gay' Cise Helped Me Realize Thgs About My Life and I Loved It

Contents:

• 11 THGS I LEARNED ON MY 1ST GAY CISE
• I WENT ON A 10-DAY CISE WH 4,000 OTHER GAY MEN. I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTER END, AND I N'T WA TO GO BACK.
• GAY SNA ETIQUETTE

11 THGS I LEARNED ON MY 1ST GAY CISE

Wh every new generatn of gay and bisexual men a new generatn of cisers. (This is large part why gay bathho are shuttg down across the U. ) But if you are one of the gay/bi men out there, like many of , who don't get that same sh om Grdr that you do om furtive eye glanc the sna -- which turn to so much more -- then this article is for you: the 5 do's and 5 don'ts of gay cisg.

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I WENT ON A 10-DAY CISE WH 4,000 OTHER GAY MEN. I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTER END, AND I N'T WA TO GO BACK.

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. "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.

I had a great time on a 10-day Mederranean cise wh 4, 000 others, the majory beg gay men.

GAY SNA ETIQUETTE

As a gay man, I fell love wh beg the majory for once.

At the end of the fal, dis-themed dance on my 10-day "all-gay" cise, I met up wh a man I'd shared a few timate moments wh. I'd fallen love wh beg the I booked my 'all-gay' cise, I prepared myself to be disappoted. In 2021, I raid my savgs acunt and spent $3, 059 to book an "all-gay" cise around the dancg troupe nvced me to buy the ticket, which was for 10 days on the Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas.

The special 2022 Atlantis sailg would be filled wh about 4, 000 gay people, the majory of them my life warned me to manage my expectatns. I also received negative reactns om my gay iends — some said they uldn't thk of anythg worse than an "all-gay" cise. Others add a lghg emoji each time they msaged about , as if the choice self was ludicro or exclively beg around gay people was crgeworthy and embarrassg.