Gay cruise spot
If you are already in Puglia then you probably recognize that Puglia is Italy’s top same-sex attracted summer destination. Puglia is one of only three Italian destinations chosen by the Rough Instruction for their superior LGBTQ+ friendly European destinations (Bologna and Milan are recommended as destinations to visit in Autumn).
Summer in Puglia is all about the beach. Hot, sweaty and salty all summer long, Puglia has Italy’s uppermost gay beach – Punta della Suina, nearby Gallipoli which also regularly tops the list as Italy’s top homosexual summer destination.
It should come as no surprise then that the focus for most of Puglia’s gay cruising takes place at the beach.
Top of Puglia’s gay cruising destinations are the highest gay and uppermost nudist beaches: Punta della Suina, Torre Guaceto and our personal favourite, D’Ayala beach.
“Puglia, the ‘Heel of Italy’ is rightly considered one of the most gay-friendly Italian regions. The natural beauty of the beaches of Salento and the city of Gallipoli, surrounded by the sea, creates the perfect atmosphere for a vibrant LGBTQ+ community”.
ENIT, the Italian National Tourist Board
Note: the Italian Penal Code prohibits individuals from acting acts of indecency
Your Guide to Cruising
How to Cruise
Cruising has reach a long way since hanky code, polari, and subtle glances. There are lots of unlike locations to suit any preference, such as:
- Public bathrooms
- Cruising bars and clubs
- Gay saunas
- Cruising parks
- Gay cruising beaches
Not only can you meet guys in public spaces but in online ones too. For example, Grindr is essentially a cruising catalogue of who's around, and also a great tool to predetermine the location that you'll get together up in. You can also opt to cruise on alt twitter, a subsection of Twitter where people produce mostly anonymous profiles, post spicy R18 content, and arrange hook ups or content collabs.
When it comes to general spaces, it helps if there are other people there to cruise! Click here for a comprehensive list of places throughout Recent Zealand / Aotearoa that are acknowledged as cruising sites, or visit Squirt.org (this is a paid service) for more. Remember, you may also run-in people who aren’t looking to cruise so it’s key to know what signs to glance out for - read on to find out.
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 – consider of it like a secret, horny code. Some people will have sex right there, while some may take their loved one to a more modest location.
Where did cruising approach from?
Cruising has a prolonged history in the gender non-conforming community. There are recorded cruising spots in cities like Toronto, London and New York dating support over a hundred years. In the time 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 common throughout the British Empire, but have been repealed in most countries.
In the US, anti-sodomy laws were r
Cruising Spots
Because private places were largely a luxury, lgbtq+ men did not have anywhere meet partners under the Communist regime, and so they frequented some public places in the center of the Bucharest. Some were public restroom.
The dangers of such 'promiscuity' included vice squads that would patrol these cruising spaces to arrest homosexuals and prostitutes. They often showed up dressed in civilian clothes, trying to entrap gay people alone or with the help of mobs of teenagers ready to assault gay men.
What cruising spots meant
Although men’s same-sex relations often left them feeling desperate at the situation they were living, they found an escape in the multiple cruising spaces in Bucharest, which in comparison to the former-USSR, did not contain a name for them. Having few places to socialize made it awfully hard to erect a collective identity and people, or stable romantic relationships. Sexual relations between gay men often took place in parks, production theatres, and public restrooms where the spark ignited, the depend on was met, and each continued with their own lives once they left the premises. Gara de Nord