{"id":169,"date":"2026-05-20T19:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2026-05-20T19:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:40:37","slug":"a-new-film-explores-the-not-so-distant-history-of-gay-cruising-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"A New Film Explores the Not-So-Distant History of Gay Cruising Arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div><!-- Tag ID: motherjones_right_rail_1 -->\n<\/div> <\/div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A stylized film still featuring two men against a backdrop of vibrant blue and teal lighting.\" class=\"wp-image-168\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/04ae785402a8575d8d8955251a0cf548-1024x575.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/04ae785402a8575d8d8955251a0cf548-1024x575.webp 1024w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/04ae785402a8575d8d8955251a0cf548-300x168.webp 300w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/04ae785402a8575d8d8955251a0cf548-768x431.webp 768w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/04ae785402a8575d8d8955251a0cf548-1536x862.webp 1536w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/04ae785402a8575d8d8955251a0cf548.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Last June,<\/span> as David was returning from visiting friends in New Jersey, he stopped to use a restroom in New York City\u2019sPenn Station. He told <em>Out Magazine<\/em> that as he approached a urinal, he noticed one man watching him, while two others traded glances over the urinals\u2019 dividers. David didn\u2019t engage with any of them. However, before he knew it, the first man he noticed pulled out a badge and said, \u201cAll three of you are under arrest.\u201d They were quickly escorted out of the bathroom in handcuffs and charged with public lewdness. David (whose real name was not used in <em>Out<\/em>) and the two others were just three of over 200 men arrested last summer as part of an Amtrak Police Department operation targeting the bathroom, which was listed as a \u201chotspot\u201d on Sniffies, a map-based cruising platform. David\u2019s charges would later be dropped after he completed a pre-court diversion program, but that didn\u2019t make the experience any less traumatizing.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=166\">Trump\u2019s SEC Slammed the Door on Small Investors. They Built a New One.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the 200 arrested last summer, at least 20 of the men were taken into ICE custody, the <em>Gothamist<\/em> reported. New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal told <em>Out<\/em> the arrests were \u201ca rather frightening callback to a period that we thought had long passed in queer American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That history is explored in writer Carmen Emmi\u2019s directorial debut <em>Plainclothes<\/em>. Though the film has been overlooked by some of the major awards shows this season, it\u2019s up for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Film this week, and it\u2019s well worth a watch if you missed it when it was in theaters last fall. Set in Emmi\u2019s hometown of Syracuse during the 1990s, the film follows Lucas (played by Tom Blyth), an undercover cop who entraps men in lewd conduct sting operations in the local mall bathroom. It\u2019s during one of these stings that Lucas surprises himself by stumbling into a fleeting romance with a man named Andrew, played by Russell Tovey. Lucas\u2019s life quickly descends into turmoil as he reckons with the ethical complications of his job, his sexuality, perceptions of masculinity, and the death of his father.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As much a psychological thriller as it is a romance, at its heart <em>Plainclothes<\/em> is a coming out story that interrogates the toll of policing your feelings to adhere to societal norms. The film shines a light on the extensive history of over-policing suffered by the LGBTQ+ community\u2014a history that continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Robert Stein, a San Francisco State University history professor whose research focuses on constitutional law, social movements, gender, race and sexuality, said the history of cruising dates back to the 19th century in the United States. During periods of repression, popular cruising spots became targets of local police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These sting operations reached their height during the Lavender Scare in the 1950s and \u201960s, when allegations of homosexuality led to the firing of government and private sector employees. During this time, police surveilled gay bars, using entrapment techniques to arrest queer men who were looking not only for sex, but also for community.\u00a0Later, after the 1969 Stonewall Riots, some of these tactics diminished, but they never completely stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Emmi became interested in this history a decade ago, when he read a <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> story about a series of lewd conduct sting operations conducted from 2012 to 2014 by Long Beach police officers. The \u201ccontroversial, age-old police tactic,\u201d as the paper described it, took more than two dozen men into custody and was heavily criticized for entrapment and discrimination against gay men. In the article, gay rights activists argued that the stings \u201ccan ensnare men who hadn\u2019t otherwise been seeking sex and that they rarely, if ever, target straight people.\u201d The backlash over those cases caused many law enforcement agencies in California to stop running these sting operations.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> piece inspired Emmi to write <em>Plainclothes<\/em>. As he continued to research, he joined online chatrooms that men used in the \u201990s to find cruising spots, read \u201970s cruising guides, and even cruised himself. One of the ways this research materialized was a particularly striking scene where Lt. Sollars, the police chief, shows Lucas and the other two officers a video of a new strategy they could use to \u201cfind and persecute the perverts.\u201d The video is actual footage from Mansfield, Ohio, in 1962, where police set up hidden cameras behind a bathroom mirror to catch queer men cruising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted people to know that this actually happened, and I wanted it to be preserved in some way,\u201d Emmi said, noting that he did alter the men\u2019s faces to restore their anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>While Lucas watches the video, he wrestles with his feelings for Andrew and his complicity in the harm the stings bring to other queer men. In this moment, he\u2019s forced to confront the fact that the life he\u2019s built for himself to hide inside no longer serves him.<\/p>\n<p>As Lucas reexamined his relationship to the toxic masculinity perpetuated by the men in his life, I was surprised to realize I felt sympathetic for the male characters in the film. They seemed more like products of their circumstances or cautionary tales of the results of self-policing or compulsory heterosexuality, rather than autonomous participants in their lives. None of them were capable of seeing outside their current reality for other possibilities. They serve as foils to Lucas as he navigates through this cult of masculinity.<\/p>\n<p>While Lucas\u2019 relationship with Andrew gives him a chance to explore his sexuality, it\u2019s later revealed that Andrew is a husband, father, and reverend who sees his cheating and cruising as a sort of means to an end, and not an actual possibility for his life. Lucas\u2019 family doesn\u2019t offer him a positive example of masculinity either: Lucas\u2019 kind-hearted father, Gus, has died, leaving his brutish uncle Paul as the closest thing he has to a father figure.<\/p>\n<p>Emmi said he wanted to showcase the effects of toxic masculinity on American society, noting that \u201cyou can be surrounded by so much love,\u201d from your immediate family, but if that same sort of acceptance and love isn\u2019t embedded in the culture, \u201cthere\u2019s the sense of like, beyond your front door isn\u2019t safe.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=163\">Trump Begins Branding America\u2019s 250th Anniversary as a Christian Celebration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Gerstner, a City University of New York cinema studies professor, said the characters\u2019 sensation of surveillance brings to mind Michel Foucault\u2019s panopticon theory. Through its camera work and use of sound, Gerstner said, the film shows how gay men at that time were \u201calways looking over their shoulders,\u201d ultimately internalizing the surveillance they were subject to.<\/p>\n<p>While marginalized communities have always been subject to this internalized self-surveillance, that feeling of constant surveillance has, of course, only intensified in the digital age. With social media influencers and the rise of apps like Grindr and Sniffies, cruising has garnered more mainstream attention andcaused some peopleto worry their safe spaces are being exposed to unwanted attention from outside their intended communities.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the Ohio found footage, Emmi included his family\u2019s home videos and sequences he\u2019d filmed on his Hi8 camcorder during downtime on set to create a cinematic language for Lucas\u2019s anxiety and hypervigilance. By collapsing both personal and communal histories, <em>Plainclothes<\/em> almost transcends any specific time or place\u2014shining a light on the queer community\u2019s past persecution, while also reflecting a kind of social surveillance that may feel uncannily familiar today. Although Emmi intended the film to be a period piece, it suggests that we aren\u2019t as far removed from the past it depicts as we might think.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stein, the history professor, noted that in the past, cruising arrests could have huge ramifications for men if\u00a0their families, neighbors, or employers found out, even without a conviction or sentence. Although the potential for family rejection and employer discrimination might be different now, he said, \u201ceven today there are many families and employers, and neighbors who will react in hostile ways simply to an arrest, and the nature of media today means that information circulates much more easily and broadly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And while the federal government doesn\u2019t control local policing, he said we\u2019ve entered into a period where \u201clocal police feel emboldened under the current administration into engaging in practices that maybe have been in decline for the last several decades.\u201d The Trump administration\u2019s attack on LGBTQ rights, particularly among federal employees, prompted Lucas Schleusener, cofounder and CEO of Out in National Security, to tell the <em>Washington Blade<\/em>, that we\u2019re in a \u201csecond Lavender Scare.\u201d\u00a0However, Stein said that history isn\u2019t \u201ca simple repetition\u201d of the past; while we aren\u2019t reverting back to where things were, \u201con other levels, we\u2019re seeing things worse than they\u2019ve ever been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a bit of ambiguity about what happens next for Lucas at the end of <em>Plainclothes.<\/em> Ultimately, we learn that Andrew has rejected Lucas, fearful of being found out by his community. Sometime after this heartbreak, Lucas travels to his family\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve party. Here he\u2019s comforting his grieving mother; navigating a contentious relationship with his hypermasculine uncle, Paul; and frantically searching for an unopened letter from Andrew that he lost somewhere in the house. It\u2019s at this party that <em>Plainclothes<\/em> comes to an end.<\/p>\n<p>Uncle Paul finds the letter first, and shows it to Lucas\u2019 mother. The revelation prompts a moment of confusion: The letter is addressed to \u201cGus\u201d\u2014the name Lucas used with Andrew, which is also Lucas\u2019 father\u2019s name. But in the film\u2019s final moments, Lucas turns to his mother and tells her the letter was for him.<\/p>\n<p>In the last shot, we watch a panting Lucas, his shocked mother, and an astonished, confused crowd of family members exchanging nervous looks.\u00a0We can\u2019t particularly pin down how Lucas\u2019 mother has responded to him telling her the truth. She doesn\u2019t say anything, but her face seems to move through a wave of emotions. She stands there teary-eyed, her brow furrowed as her mouth quivers. We see Lucas sigh, then the camera smashes to black.<\/p>\n<p>For some, this ending\u2014both the loss of Andrew and the exposure of Lucas\u2019 secret without a clear resolution\u2014could be unnerving. But Gerstner said he likes that the film resists the usual happy ending that many recent American coming-out films have. \u201cComing out narratives are important, as long as they complicate the world in which this coming out is taking place,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But for Emmi, the film\u2019s ending is hopeful. It felt representative of the conversations he\u2019d had with queer elders about their experiences coming out.\u00a0While those conversations were heavy and at times tragic, Emmi said he always left feeling like they had hope for \u201cfor our community and for future queer people.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The hope rests within the ambiguity of the scene\u2019s final moments. We don\u2019t know where Lucas goes from here, and with historical context we understand his journey won\u2019t be without persecution or hardship, but we can still see that he\u2019s starting to make decisions for himself honestly. We sense that this marks the beginning of his path to liberation from the shame and debilitating anxiety that has come from hiding from others and himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With <em>Plainclothes<\/em>, Emmi shows why it\u2019s important to keep making films that add contours to the coming out experience, while also preserving the complexity of queer history and culture. While we may be decades past the setting of the film, <em>Plainclothes<\/em> challenges us to reckon with how much in our culture has really changed. But even as cruising culture is heavily scrutinized and threatened, Emmi\u2019s film reminds us of why it\u2019s an important part of queer history worth fighting to preserve\u2014that at its core, cruising is still about connection and exploration of the self. <\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=160\">Trump\u2019s Minions Have Quietly Disappeared Most Federal Data on Gender Identity<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cPlainclothes,\u201d director Carmen Emmi examines the toll that constant surveillance takes on the LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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