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11 things I learned on my first gay cruise
You've probably heard of same-sex attracted cruises and wondered how they differ from "traditional" cruises. Are they uncover to straight people? Is it all about partying? What about the hook-up element?
I sailed with tour operator Vacaya in February 2023 on a one-week gay cruise exiting from Fort Lauderdale and heading to the Caribbean via Celebrity Cruises' Icon Reflection cruise ship. For context, I'm a white, cisgender, gay man in my mid-30s. I had a lot of questions about what to look for, given this was my second cruise ever and my first one with a queer tour operator.
Here are the top things I'd want someone considering or planning their first gay cruise to know.
People are friendly
The first thing that struck me about the sailing was that almost everyone was smiling and eager to interact. As an Australian living in the U.S. for almost a decade, I generally locate Americans to be open, talkative and curious. This cruise was like that … on steroids.
I would have start it overwhelming if I weren't an extrovert, but since I'm a social butterfly, I was in heaven.
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These days lots of gay guys are using Grindr for hooking up. But we didn’t always possess sex available at our fingertips. For centuries (or longer!) homosexual and bi guys have establish ways to connect with each other, even when doing so was illegal. Most of us don’t come from queer families and so we don’t grasp our LGBTQ history at place. So, I set out to uncover the ways that queer and bisexual guys have met each other for friendship and sex. Here’s a brief history of gay cruising
These days lots of gay guys are using Grindr for hooking up. But we didn’t always own sex available at our fingertips. From bathhouses to bars, sex parties to saunas, even to parks and bathrooms. Gay guys have found a way to find each other, even before Grindr.
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Montjuic is a large hill overlooking the harbor near the municipality center of Barcelona. Over the centuries it has been the site of Celtic settlers, Roman ceremonies, political executions, and several events during the 1992 Olympic Games. It is now a recreational area, home to parks, gardens, museums and a castle. It is also a meeting place for a community of men who practice cruising – searching for sexual encounters in public places.
The cruising scene, which many participants state dates back to at least the 1970s, attracts men of a variety of backgrounds and desires, not all of whom identify as gay. They juggle the fears of being exposed and judged with the rush of clandestine encounters that construct them feel deliciously alive. Although the number of people cruising here has somewhat decreased over the years, many insist that what they enjoy about the practice has not been replaced by the mainstream acceptance of homosexuality, or by the soar of dating apps.…
Back to nature: a potted history of queer cruising
The first time Kyle* went cruising for sex, he’d just finished his change as a supermarket delivery driver. “I’d dropped off some shopping at a house nearby Hampstead, so I decided to try and find the Hampstead Heath cruising area,” he recalls. Kyle wasn’t entirely sure where to travel when he got to the wooded West Heath, residence to London’s most famous cruising land, but his homing instincts soon kicked in. “Even though it was still light outside, there were more guys there than I’d been expecting,” he says. “I was still in my [redacted] supermarket uniform when I ended up swapping blowjobs in the bushes.”
Kyle, who asked to last anonymous in case his boss reads this, was drawn to cruising for practical reasons. “There’s so much less faffing around than if you travel on Grindr, where everyone wants to know what you’re into [sexually] 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. “When you go to a cr