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Mar 24, 2026 1 hr 3 min

Cruising (Friedkin 1980)

from Collective Nightmares Hosted by Marshall

Marshall Smith, PhD, and Laura Patterson, PhD, offer a sociological discussion of the 1980 film Cruising, written and directed by William Friedkin. This is such a fascinating film and well worth watching. The film focuses on the communities of young single gay men in NYC, and was made during the brief few years post Stonewall and before significant awareness of AIDS. The post Cruising (Friedkin 1980) appeared first on Collective Nightmares.

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