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Grindr claims its app has more than a million users in more than 180 countries, including Sri Lanka, Djibouti, Haiti, Iraq, and Iran, places where being gay can get you killed. Even at gay bars: cruising within cruising. Could this crude little iPhone app be every single gay man’s dream: to be able to cruise anywhere, anytime? Shopping? Why not! Meet me in Aisle C! Killing time at the airport? I’m sitting at Gate 17. Suddenly, it became clear to me what his excitement was about. And then, “Oh, 413 feet!” Sensing my annoyance, he showed me his phone: dozens of little thumbnail pictures of guys, with little blurbs about themselves, organized from top to bottom in order of proximity. There’s a lot of people who just stand there for 10 minutes, looking around.A smart, attractive, chronically single friend of mine had been feverishly fidgeting with his iPhone for half a dozen blocks, somehow navigating the crowded sidewalks without once lifting his gaze from the screen. Mr Kwek’s colleague, who asked not to be named, said: “I’ve been in them two times and people had warned me not to. And especially because in Soho a lot of addicts go there and make a mess.” Steve Kwek, who has traded for nine years at the market with his Pit Stop food stall, said: “I keep away from them because they’re always too dirty. “It’s expensive to go into cafes so you just hold it in until you get home. The toilets are managed by Carlisle Support Services on behalf of Westminster Council.įor the market traders in Berwick Street, just yards from the Broadwick Street toilets, its also “frustrating” how often they are closed during the day.Īhmed Elshimi, 34, from Wowshee food stand, said: “It would seriously be amazing if they opened them more often. In 2006, Mark Turner, author of 'Backward Glances: Cruising the Queer Streets of New York and London', said cruising is "embedded in our cultural history". While gives the same destination four stars out of five. The website lists the public loos in Great Marlborough Street as a cruising location. Many locals are outraged at what goes on in some of them (Image: Owen Sheppard)
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The 34-year-old added: “They do very bad things in those loos, so I don’t want to go in there when they are open. I’ve been on this market for three and a half years and there’s nowhere to go to the toilet.
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Victor Morales, of Greek 2 Go, said: “It’s very frustrating. I said, 'you can't send your little boys in there.” They were probably eight and 10 years old. “I stopped a Mum and Dad, from sending their two boys down there. “Sometimes when there's police patrolling I ask them to go down there as a deterrent, but they don't want to. “You see guys hang around waiting for a nod to go down there. Traders who work at nearby Soho market are appalled at what goes on in them (Image: Owen Sheppard)ĭown at the market, Leanne Gellel, of Leanne’s Flowers stall, said: “They get used by prostitutes and people drug dealing.