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#Old gay men having sex at a rest stop full#
It would quickly escalate into full blown sex.
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It didn't take much effort, he would simply walk into the wooded area, be approached, sometimes the men would make small talk such as asking him if he had seen any animals. One such 16-year-old who called himself "Rudy" was interviewed by local media back then and described his chilling experiences. The site quickly gained traction as a place for underage hustlers to make money by hooking up with men. Sometimes one car would pull up and wait for a man to appear out of the bushes and just simply follow him in.īetween the cruising and hustling this kind of activity didn't come without its bigger social problems. Meetings were arranged by eye contact, never any conversation. It was so dark in this space at night one Department of Transportation engineer said you couldn't even see your hands in front of you. The palmetto scrub provided just enough underbrush to conceal a nightly encounter between two men. Bernie Collins, a Boca Raton detective at the time, described the site to The Palm Beach Post as "the homosexual capital of Palm Beach and Broward counties.” You'd have seen rows of 10-15 cars either empty or with lone men sitting in them. If you had stopped here at night, it was a different story. It was just some asphalt, litter, and the sounds of roaring trucks. A work in progress still, there were no restrooms, no buildings, not even a picnic bench at the 23-acre site.
#Old gay men having sex at a rest stop drivers#
When I-95 was still in development, many stops like this were designed for truck drivers to rest. If you were driving south on I-95 in the Boca Raton area about 40 years ago just before reaching the Broward County line you would have noticed just to the right a small exit. In fact, because cruising was such an issue, it is one of the reasons rest stops do not exist at all along South Florida’s I-95 corridor anymore. It was in the film “There’s Something About Mary,” but was this really a thing? In the 1997 film, Ben Stiller’s character is arrested at a rest stop when he stops to use the restroom but quickly finds himself in the middle of a sting operation targeting gay men cruising at rest stops.Įarlier in the film, his therapist mentions that “rest stops are the bathhouses of the 90s for many many gay men.”įor one Boca Raton area rest stop, it would certainly have seemed so.