In a way, Kyle’s post-work hook-up in clothes belonging to a household shop brand epitomises why Alexis Gregory, author of LGBTQ+ history play Riot Act, calls cruising “a traditional radical act of queer defiance”. You get the lay of the land, see who else is around you look at them, they look at you, and usually something will happen.” “When you go to a cruising spot, everyone’s there for the same reason. ![]() “There’s so much less faffing around than if you go on Grindr, where everyone wants to know what you’re into before they agree to a hook-up,” says 34-year-old Kyle, who has since cruised on East London’s Hackney Marshes and beaches in Mykonos and Sitges. Kyle, who asked to remain anonymous in case his boss reads this, was drawn to cruising for practical reasons. “I was still in my supermarket uniform when I ended up swapping blowjobs in the bushes.” “Even though it was still light outside, there were more guys there than I’d been expecting,” he says. ![]() Kyle wasn’t entirely sure where to go when he got to the wooded West Heath, home to London’s most famous cruising ground, but his homing instincts soon kicked in. “I’d dropped off some shopping at a house near Hampstead, so I decided to try and find the Hampstead Heath cruising area,” he recalls. The first time Kyle* went cruising for sex, he’d just finished his shift as a supermarket delivery driver.
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