Cruising w. Marcus McCann

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In which we and our pal Marcus McCann go undercover and unpack Cruising. You can find Marcus McCann here! (https://www.marcusmccann.com/) You can find Marcus' book here (https://houseofanansi.com/products/park-cruising)! This episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus.You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt (https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/) DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here.You Are Good (https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/) is a feelings podcast about movies.You can make a contribution to Palestine Children's Relief Fund here (https://www.pcrf.net/).You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Patreon and Apple Plus.The Music of You Are Good, Vol. 1 is here.Miranda Zickler (https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster) produced and edited this episode!Fresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.Liz Climo designed our logo!

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0:00.0	Hello you!
0:01.0	Welcome to You Are Good A Feelings, Podcast About Movies. Today we're talking about cruising.
0:16.7	We're talking about it with Marcus McCann. I am one of your hosts Alex Steed and I will soon be joined
0:22.0	by my marvelous co-host Sarah Marshall.
0:25.8	Curzing is a 1980 crime thriller film written and directed by William Friedkin.
0:31.7	It is loosely based on the novel of the same name by New York
0:34.8	Times reporter Gerald Walker about a serial killer targeting gay men in the 1970s.
0:41.2	The title is a double entendre, this is more from Wikipedia, because cruising can describe both police officers on patrol and men who are cruising for sex.
0:50.0	And then more from Wikipedia, just to provide a little bit of context for this
0:54.3	conversation, poorly received by critics upon release cruising performed moderately at the
1:00.2	box office, the shooting and promotion were dogged by gay rights protesters who believed that the film
1:06.0	stigmatized them. I'm letting you know that right now because that is a lot of what we'll be talking about
1:11.6	in this very conversation with Marcus McCann.
1:15.3	Marcus, you can hear over on your wrong about talking about George Michael and
1:19.2	George Michael parts one and two and the relationship between George Michael and cruising is why we're talking about
1:29.6	the movie cruising with Marcus over here So this is a companion piece to that series.
1:36.3	Marcus McCann is a lawyer who has been involved in a number of high profile legal projects in
1:40.8	the areas of sexuality and LGBTQ rights.
1:44.8	Marcus is the author of Park cruising,
1:47.5	what happens when we wander off the path.
1:51.0	Very excited to talk about this episode with you. It is about a serial killer. It is about a serial killer that targets folks in the gay community. It's about death and violence that's perpetrated against queer people. So please keep all of that in mind we don't go into
2:04.6	great detail about any of those pieces but that is something that is going to come
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