A police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.


Books with substantial mentioning of Cruising

Dawn B. Sova
Forbidden Films, Censorship Histories of 125 Motion Pictures
New York NY, 2001

James Robert Parish
The Great Cop Pictures
Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1990

Articles on Cruising

Melissa Anderson, Rawhide, in: Filmcomment, nr. 5 (September/October), 2007 pp. 36-37

Articles with substantial mentioning of Cruising

Bret Easton Ellis, Guilty pleasures, in: Filmcomment, nr. 4 (July/August), 2013 pp. 12-13

Reviews

Lloyd Gruver, Cruising, in: Films in Review, vol. 31, 1980 pp. 242-243