A Gay Man Opens Up About His Sexual Asslt 'One Taxi Ri'

Contents:

• A 25-YEAR-OLD GOT A TAXI OUTSI AN N.Y.C. GAY BAR. HE WAS AD AN HOUR LATER.
• GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM
• TAXI FARE GAY
• STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
• WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM
• A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

A 25-YEAR-OLD GOT A TAXI OUTSI AN N.Y.C. GAY BAR. HE WAS AD AN HOUR LATER.

The r that I’m ridg shotgun for the eveng is a Homobile. Homobil is a quirky, pay-what-you-will nonprof r service the Bay Area created by queer people (and their alli), for queer people (and their alli). It was the bathroom walls that first clued me to the existence of Homobil.

GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM

The year was 2011, and stickers began to appear the bathrooms of gay bars across the cy. A ltle while later, at a party, a iend took out her phone to ll a b, and the host stopped her and told her to text Homobil stead. It turned out several people at the party — not all of them gay — were secret Homobil ctomers.

TAXI FARE GAY

The cy’s taxi pani had already clued to their existence and eaked out, but Homobil mollified them by explag that s drivers only picked up people who lled them first, and that they were pickg up exactly the kd of people — the drag queens, particular — that taxi drivers didn’t want to pick up.

The Homobil bs mol was the oppose of “too big to fail”; was aimg for “too small for anyone to see as petn. William Gibson once said, “The future is here: jt isn’t fully distributed yet” — and few suatns is this more te than the life of the visibly gay. “A lot of taxi drivers are immigrants om Middle Eastern untri, ” says Rashid, a Homobil regular.

STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS

He is head to Ltle Orphan Andy’s, a 24-hour gay der the Castro, and wearg a plastic raat and a peach-lored neon women’s bathg su. The later gets, the more Homobil acquir an overall vibe that is one part r service, one part social servic agency.

A Homobil ri is the kd where you n be hammered at the end of the night and sgg along to Dty’s Child at the top of your lungs, which happened earlier this eveng.

WHERE TO GO WHEN IM YOUNG GAY? - AMSTERDAM FOM

“I did all my partyg years ago, ” says Terry, who started drivg for Homobil six months ago, after she retired om a reer as a bakery supervisor. Mora, who has driven for Homobil longer than anyone else bis s founr, Lynnee Breedlove.

A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP

” Mora got rid of her Pri and replaced wh a six-person Suba statn wagon for the good of Homobil — the r is large enough to rry an entourage, and has enough leg room for some very high heels and a roof high enough to acmodate major wigs.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

Homobil aren’t the future; what they do is too weird and specific and based on the personali and ials of the people volved to apply to an dtry this large.

Homobil was and remas a seat-of the pants operatn, found by Breedlove, the former owner of a bike-msenger service lled Lickety Spl. In theory, Homobil don’t pick up anyone who hails bs the street; but practice, has cultivated a relatnship wh gay bars across the cy, and s drivers equently appear outsi them around closg time. I’ve e to the ncln that what mak Homobil so unual is the gree to which is able to operate out the open.

I also spect that, sce began, Homobil has had alli cy and state ernment who believed what was dog and worked behd the scen to keep om gettg shut down.