Local law enforcement officials agree that Washington, which has a large gay community, is quickly catching up with New York, Los Angeles and Houston in the male sex-for-sale trade. Fifteen minutes later, he is back on the strip, back at work on the streets of a city that he says is becoming known 'in a lot of gay circles as the boy-whore capital.' The young male prostitutes, such as David, are the 'chickens' these men crave.ĭavid slides into the seddan and rides off in the night for a quick sex act that will bring him at least $40. They are on the street for only a few minutes on this weekend evening when David catches the eye of a middle-aged man in a black sedan - a 'chicken hawk,' as they say in the gay love trade, who is out looking for youth and sex. There is Greg, a blond stud of 19, flanked by Cowboy, an angular 21-year-old, and David, a lithe 22-year-old with deep-set, warm brown eyes. Three hustlers standing on the street before the steaming rush-hour traffic draw the heated gazes of male motorists cruising through the tenderloin district. A misty rain dampens the sidewalk in front of the Naples Cafe on New York Avenue NW near 13th Street.
