(analog) Cruising: a manual

(analog) Cruising is a step-by-step guide to sex outside of our phones. Leo Herrera tackles Queer cruising etiquette with a blend of history, humor and poetry alongside his own personal cruising fairy tales and failures. From what to expect checking into a bathhouse, to the rules of consent in a darkroom, Leo shares tips helpful for first-timers and rusty old-timers. (Analog) Cruising builds its own language, defining implied consent, caressing cues and the museum technique.

The Manual has sold thousands of copies worldwide through a grassroots campaign. Featured in a PSA by the New York State Department of Health, presented at the Creating Change Conference, in the curriculum at California State University, distributed to LGBTQ youth through Impulse San Francisco, circulated through bathhouses and nightlife spaces in Lisbon and Berlin, appeared in Savage Love by Dan Savage and featured in The New Yorker.

“ Leo wants you off the apps and into the streets!” -Dan Savage

Leo Herrera is an artist and writer renowned for his exploration of Queer and immigrant experiences through the lenses of sex, technology, and history. Herrera's writing centers themes of cruising and disease.

His work reaches millions of readers through social media at @herrerimages and Substack at Herrera Words.