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Cruising (novel)

Cruising
First edition cover
AuthorGerald Walker
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime novel
PublisherStein and Day
Publication date
1970
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages192
ISBN0-8128-1323-5
OCLC89443
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.W1782 Cr PS3573

Cruising is a novel written by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker and published in 1970.[1] The novel is about an undercover policeman looking for a homosexual serial killer in the gay New York City of 1970. The murder victims were closeted or relatively open (as open as they could be at the time) men who came across the killer while cruising for sex. While undercover, the policeman develops feelings for his gay neighbor.

The novel is notable for its discussion of gay themes at a time when that was not commonplace. Joseph Hansen was one other writer of the 1970s to incorporate queerness into his crime fiction with his Brandstetter detective series. The first emergence of gay crime fiction was owed to George Baxt, who wrote about the gay detective Pharaoh Love. Hansen, Nava, Zubro and Nathan Aldyne (a pseudonym for Michael Mcdowell and Dennis Schuetz) were authors of crime fiction who also incorporated gay themes into their writing in the 1970s and 1980s, around the time Gerald Walker had written this novel. Neil Placky presents the view "Their books opened doors into gay culture at a time when homosexuality was considered a psychiatric disorder and a sure way to break a mother’s heart".[2] Cruising explores the main character's identity as an undercover officer and the internal struggle he then faces by entering the subculture of the gay community as a key point of the plot. The novel's plot displays the varying attitudes toward the emerging gay community. In a review published in The Guardian, a year after publication, the reviewer says "Cruising was Gerald Walker's first novel. It took five years to write [...] and of course was turned down by six literary agents and no less than 18 publishers".[3]

Plot

The novel focuses on three main characters, the killer Stuart Richards, the undercover policeman John Lynch, and the policeman Captain Edelson, who assigns the undercover role to Lynch. Each chapter (20 in total) focuses on one of the character's thoughts. Focus is placed on Lynch's feelings about various minority groups, including gay men and his feelings related to working undercover and how his life is changing as the job progresses. Additional focus is Richards' various heterosexual exploits, his rocky relationship with his father and many more memories of his life, both past and current, and Edelson's thoughts on the case and how he hopes it will garner him a promotion if he solves it.

Film adaptation

The novel was adapted as a 1980 film, also titled Cruising. There were substantial changes to the plot of the film, such as moving the killer into the world of sadomasochism and leather gay bars in Greenwich Village, New York. The movie includes the policeman Steve Burns (his name was changed from John Lynch) having an active sexual relationship with his girlfriend Nancy (played by Karen Allen). Neither of these facets are part of the plot of the novel. The film starred Al Pacino and was directed by William Friedkin.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gerald Walker -- Novelist, 75". The New York Times. February 21, 2004.
  2. ^ Neil S. Plakcy, 'The Gay Detective: Homosexuality in Crime Fiction', CriminalElement, , (2016), (np), in https://www.criminalelement.com/the-gay-detective-homosexuality-in-crime-fiction-comment-sweepstakes/
  3. ^ Anonymous, 'Beyond the homosexuality, Cruising is a cry for comfort and understanding. It is the perfect guide book to modern city life', The Guardian, 10, (1980), (p.10), Historical Newspapers ProQuest 186161861

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