How I Discovered My Family Connection to the Murder That Inspired ‘Cruising’

By Marc Malkin

Marc Malkin

Senior Editor, Culture and Events

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The first time I saw William Friedkin’s 1980 gay crime thriller “Cruising” may have been decades ago, but I will never forget how surprised I was that a movie like that was made in the 1970s.

“Cruising” stars Al Pacino as a straight New York City police officer who goes undercover in the gay leather community to try and find a serial killer who picks up men in bars before murdering them.

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