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Cruising is the name of a film released in 1980, directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel Cruising (written by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker), about a New York City serial killer targeting gay men in the 1970s.

Throughout the summer of 1979, members of New York's gay community protested the production of the film. Gay people were urged to disrupt filming, and gay businesses to bar the film makers from their premises. People attempted to interfere with shooting by pointing mirrors from rooftops, blasting whistles and air horns near locations, and playing loud music. A thousand protesters marched through the Village demanding the city withdraw support for the film.

Cruising features two seconds of unsimulated anal sex during the first murder scene.