We don't want to sounds like old farts, but you kids have it so easy these days. But apart from that, the Citadelpark stays the best choice for a healthy green walk. In these photographs, Boots Bryant depicts the tense erotic rituals of traditional public cruising. Even worse -) The serenity was disturbed a bit by a never stopping herd of students with their trolley cases using the park as the most efficient shortcut between the railway station and the Blandijn student quarter. In this paper, I examine relationships between public space, gay peoples cruising and construction of gay subjectivity in Peoples Park, Guangzhou, China. On my last nightly visit however, temperature had decreased a lot and there was hardly anyone using or enjoying the Citadelpark in the ways I described already. On both week nights, the weather was lovely and felt like the last days of an indian summer. I was there three times and found the first two evening visits a weird symbiosis of health chasing men and women jogging along the curving paths, groups of students doing their annual initiation rituals (throwing eggs, flour and less describable stuff, walking like zombies or imitating the local ducks) and last but not least, gay men cruising the museum area and the upper lake. The main park is one of these places I considered worth a study. Spending a full week in Ghent allowed me to have a more in depth look at this provincial but dazzling city.
