{"id":35045,"date":"2012-05-02T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkmince.com\/mood\/archives\/35045"},"modified":"2024-11-28T00:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:35:42","slug":"cruiseorbecruised-the-leather-bars-kept-pushing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/cruiseorbecruised-the-leather-bars-kept-pushing\/","title":{"rendered":"City Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"852\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tumblr_m39ngmssLG1qcgk7ko1_1280-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tumblr_m39ngmssLG1qcgk7ko1_1280-1.jpg 696w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/tumblr_m39ngmssLG1qcgk7ko1_1280-1-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/cruiseorbecruised.tumblr.com\/post\/22088383221\/the-leather-bars-kept-pushing-farther-and-farther\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cruiseorbecruised<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The leather bars kept pushing farther and farther uptown until they reached Twenty-First Street and Eleventh Avenue with the Eagle\u2019s Nest. There all the men seemed older and bearded and muscular and over six feet tall.\u00a0 At five foot ten I\u2019d never felt short before except in Amsterdam.\u00a0 Now I was a shorty in my own city.\u00a0 To get from the West Village up to the Spike and the Eagle, gay men had to go past three blocks of projects on Ninth Avenue starting at Sixteenth Street.\u00a0 Gangs who lived in the projects would attack single gay men.\u00a0 We started wearing whistles around our necks to summon other gay men to our defense \u2014 a fairly effective system.\u00a0 I thought back to the fifties when everyone was a sissy boy with straightened hair, cologne, and a baby blue cashmere sweater and penny loafers. Back then we would have been terrified of gangs.\u00a0 Not anymore. Now many of us were taking judo classes.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014<\/em> from<em> City Boy<\/em> by Edmund White<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cruiseorbecruised: The leather bars kept pushing farther and farther uptown until they reached Twenty-First Street and Eleventh Avenue with the Eagle\u2019s Nest. There all the men seemed older and bearded and muscular and over six feet tall.\u00a0 At five foot ten I\u2019d never felt short before except in Amsterdam.\u00a0 Now I was a shorty in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/02\/cruiseorbecruised-the-leather-bars-kept-pushing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City Boy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultragay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71574,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35045\/revisions\/71574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}