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 …
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.
THE FOTTEN SECRET LANGUAGE OF GAY MEN
* cruising gay meaning *
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.
GAY "SIS": HOW LANGUAGE FRE US TO BE OURSELV
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.