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Pink News, May 26, 2024.
Zeeland, S.Military Trade.
Gentrifiers were coming in and saying that Polk Street was unsafe for families. But who were they really trying to make the area safe for?
Rechy also became faculty member at the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
On Polk Street and in the Tenderloin, a family of hustlers and priests
Sex work is big and—unfortunately, yet again—controversial news in San Francisco at the moment, as the city fruitlessly attempts to shut down Capp Street’s thriving trade with actual concrete barriers.
Who were they putting in danger? And if masculinity seems chained to heterosexuality, that’s because the people in power built a world where “effeminate” was treated like a prison sentence. Storytelling is a survival strategy, it creates kinship and transforms their circumstances. [laughs] You really felt the impact of queer family in her stories. So the idea that straight-identified men having sex with men is something new or a product of “sexual confusion” is not only false—it’s historically illiterate and willfully ignorant.
Sexual identity is a modern invention.
Trade refers to sexual behavior, not sexual orientation. Rechy was able to escape.
But trade never vanished.
After attended college and a stint in the army, Rechy began traveling around the United States, earning money by being a gay hustler. Neighborhood associations, business owners, and the police were trying to “clean up” the area and basically demolishing the queer culture that had been there for decades.
“Numbers” focused gay man trying to recapture his youth by having sex with 100 men. Out Magazine, August 31, 2015.
Theil, M.The Long, Fascinating and Controversial History of the Drag Race Term ‘Trade’. Only later did the term tilt toward straight-presenting, working-class men.
Eventually, the term narrowed in scope.
It was unpredictable: for the men selling sex and the men paying for it.
These encounters happened on the fly: daylight or dark, in back seats, cheap hotels, parks, docks, alleys, and public toilets. The word simply gave a name to something that had always been happening.
The Original Meaning of “Trade”
In early British queer slang—specifically Polari, a coded language used for survival under anti-homosexuality laws—trade first meant a casual male sexual partner.
Now, go forth and spread the slang knowledge—because everyone deserves to be in on the joke (and the flirting!). In the next essay, I’ll show how his work became the DNA of modern rough-trade porn—from parolees in ankle monitors to fan site hustlers. Plus numerous essays for a variety of literary publications such as The Nation, New York Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, L.A.
Weekly, The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Evergreen Review. A legal alibi built on a lie. It was his daily life: caustic, codependent, addictive, dangerous, and erotic without apology.
Next Up: David Hurles x Rough Trade on Film
David Hurles filmed the men everyone else avoided: the hustlers, addicts, street trade, and felons who fucked, fought, and posed for his camera.
They were factory workers, servicemen, husbands, executives, or salesmen who treated queer men as their private bank. Others came to hustle—and not the fun kind.