Cruising was one of the best chapters in Screening Party. I watched it recently on a bootleg, it still has power. Freidkin is too good of a director for this to end up a laughable mess as some have said. It's a mess at times, but it's nasty uncomprimising work. Homophobic? Yes and no, I think Freidkin's misanthropy is more at work. And I've don't think we've made much, or the right kind of progress. Yes there are movies and tv shows with "positive" depections of gays, but safe sexless gay characters in neat sweaters and armed with a sassy comeback. Cruising is raw, and more honest to the time it was made.