Backward Glances: Cruising Queer Streets of New York and London Phoenicia Rogerson Relegated to the genre of

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Backward Glances: Cruising Queer Streets of New York and London Phoenicia Rogerson Relegated to the genre ofBackward Glances is an exploration of the history of male street cruising. Too often in discussions of urban space and interpretations of urban culture, streetwalking implies a rigid model for the way we inhabit the streets. Beginning with the simple premise that we all walk the streets differently, Mark Turner suggests that male cruising operates through encounter and connection rather than alienation, and that it is the defining experience of what