Park Cruising
Books | Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies
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Marcus McCann
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his work opposing a police sting in a suburban park, McCann’s ruminations go beyond targeted enforcement and police indifference to violence to examine cruising as a type of world-building. The result is a series of insightful and poetic walks through history, law, literature, and popular representations of cruising in search of the social value of sex. What McCann ultimately reveals is a world of connection, care, and unexpected lessons about the value of pleasure.
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Author
Marcus McCann
Pages
259
Publisher
House of Anansi
Published Date
2023-05-02
ISBN
1487011792 9781487011796
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"There’s something to be said about writing a queer studies book from experience. I think the idea of the author using his experience as a gay man who has cruised in parks. The history of queer people cruising is just as important as any other history! I love that the people involved in community in Toronto decided to take their frustrations out on the police by practicing civil disobedience. The fact that people were still being prosecuted for this in 2016 is bizarre!"
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Finn Hughes