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Contents:
- AL PACO'S GAYT MOVIE: THE 'CISG' CONTROVERSY OF 1980
- THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
- GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV
AL PACO'S GAYT MOVIE: THE 'CISG' CONTROVERSY OF 1980
In 1980 William Friedk and Al Paco ma 'Cisg,' a stylish thriller that tak viewers to the unrground world of gay leather and S&M clubs on the hunt for a serial killer. Gay activists objected to as anti-gay, while straight moralizers thought was praved. It's hardly the kd of movie that you'd expect om the director of 'The Exorcist' and 'The French Connectn,' and the star of the 'Godfather' films. * cruising gay meaning *
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.
THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
The ncept of cisg has typilly foced on gay male activy and, as such, has been narrowly foced and limed. This view has rerced negative stereotypil imag of gay men and has valued women's more subtle styl and longer-term relatnships. This paper argu that lbians do ci … * cruising gay meaning *
"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. A closet homosexual pretendg to be Alpha Male, lookg "cisg" for young imprsnable mal see T. Ojo, vaya por lante que un térmo que hasta hace po era si patrimon exclivo hombr homosexual, pero que da vez más utilizado por heteros bndo ampliar s experiencias.
El origen l cisg tá en lo plido e seguro que era en el pasado para las personas LGBT+ nocer a otras personas para tener sexo, en una épo en la que la homosexualidad y cualquier otra ndición sexual que se saliera la norma era perseguida y stigada. Hay algunos que dicen que viene la palabra kisen, cuyo signifido “cz” y haría referencia al momento en el que dos personas se czan en un lugar o czan s miradas, dándose ta forma el ok para practir explin que el origen taría en un bar ambiente gay que taba suado a las afueras la lolidad tadouninse Albuquerque, Nuevo Méxi, el Booze n’ Cise, que taba ubido en plena Ruta 66 y que se hizo famoso en los años 70 entre los gays que pasaban por ahí bido a la apertura su ambiente y a la posibilidad tener encuentros sual n otros hombr.
GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV
Startg wh s productn 1979, and on through s release the followg year, this sweaty p thriller, set the world of wateront leather bars, would bee the fol pot of a heated bate that raged throughout New York Cy, s gay muny, and the pag of this very publitn. Friedk, who also penned the screenplay, based the film on three primary sourc: a 1970 novel of the same name by New York Tim reporter Gerald Walker, about an unrver p vtigatg a serial killer of gay men; Friedk’s nversatns wh Randy Jurgensen, a former NYPD tective (and a nsultant on Friedk’s The French Connectn) who spent several months unrver the cy’s s&m clubs and proclaimed the experience “msed up his md”; and a seri of Voice articl by Arthur Bell tailg several grisly, unsolved killgs of gay men picked up leather bars. (Those s&m-vg bs, like most gay bars and clubs of the era, were unr mob ownership.
) But Friedk remaed an aloof observer of gay life, and Cisg was unniably a script wrten om a straight, Other-g perspective — a fact that sound alarms when news of s existence leaked to gay activists jt as the film’s productn menced New York durg the summer of ’79. The first salvo the battle me, ironilly enough, om the same Voice wrer whose lumns on the gay serial killer had ught Friedk’s eye. In the July 16 edn of his “Bell Tells” lumn, Arthur Bell wrote that Cisg “promis to be the most opprsive, ugly, bigoted look at homosexualy ever prented on the screen, the worst possible nightmare of the most uptight straight and a validatn of Ana Bryant’s hate mpaign.