The drama outside the Cafe Naples is replayed scores of times daily on downtown city streets and up along Dumbarton Street in the shadows of trendy Georgetown bars. 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.
