That includes his sexual initiation when, as a confused 15-year-old working-class Latino boy, he was picked up by an older man.
Along the way, Espinoza writes of his own history of cruising. It takes the reader from ancient Rome, where “men searched for sailors in the vicinity of districts close to the Tiber,” to modern-day Uganda, where discreet cruising persists despite a law that punishes gay sex with life imprisonment. ALEX ESPINOZA’S NEW BOOK about cruising - the venerable practice of men picking each other up in public spaces for sex - is part history, part memoir, and part political and social commentary.
