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Amsterdam park gets gay cruising signs
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The town council of Slotervaart, a district in southwest Amsterdam, decided to post the signs in De Oeverlanden park after receiving complaints from passers-by about the sexual activities taking place in the park.
The sign indicates not only cruising areas, but also areas where children can play and people can hike their dogs. According to one of the district’s councillors, “It’s our duty as a town council to discourage people about what’s happening here. As long as the men do not have sex in public, where they can be seen, I have no problem with it”. The park, De Oeverlanden, has been known for decades as a gay cruising area. Some say it’s the most popular one in Holland. Recently, there has been a rise in violence in the park, with robberies, aggression and abuse. The local chapter of the COC, Holland’s main organisation for gays and lesbians, hopes the sign will form the area safer for everyone.
The Freddie Guide to: Cruising
What is gay cruising?
Straight cruising is a vacay on a boat. Gay cruising is the art of hooking up in universal.
Cruising is almost always anonymous, and can be one-on-one, in groups, or with others watching. It’s done by using non-verbal cues to show you’re both interested – think of it like a classified, horny code. Some people will verb sex right there, while some may take their partner to a more discreet location.
Where did cruising come from?
Cruising has a elongated history in the queer community. There are recorded cruising spots in cities like Toronto, London and New York dating back over a hundred years. In the moment before gay bars, when homosexuality was illegal, public places were often the only option for queer people to meet each other.
Evidence for this often comes from prosecution records – we know where people were cruising based on arrests for “sodomy” or “gross indecency”. These were historic offences made to criminalize gay sex, and were almost exclusively applied to queer men. Sodomy and indecency laws were familiar throughou
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