PositiveLos Angeles TimesMemoir is the powerful heart of Espinoza’s book, the places where he makes us feel the power of cruising as what he calls a \'cultural identifier\' of gay experience, the act that marks us as constitutionally different from straight people. Other places in Cruising, Espinoza seems less engaged ... But when he takes us to the L.A. he knew, to the gayopolis of WeHo he experienced at 19, where bookstore owners thought nothing of displaying Inches magazine, Espinoza makes us feel the power of carving out queer spaces in the wider city. Espinoza also struggles with modern gay hookup apps (Grindr, Scruff, Growlr, BRO, Hornet, DaddyHunt) and how to place them in the history of cruising ... Cruising does better at capturing a moment fixed in analog time[.]
