It’s one of those ugly secrets of a city, but it’s true.
Fort Lauderdale has a black male hooker business district!
In the day time, it’s just a street that runs behind Searstown, south of Sunrise Boulevard, NE 5th Avenue.
But when the sun goes down, it’s Black Hooker Road.
It’s been going on for a couple of decades now. Cindy and I used to own property close by, but gave up, sold out, and moved. Little has changed.
I drove home a few hours ago, after attending Mayor Seiler’s latest “jog with the Mayor” event, and decided to take that route to see if things had changed.
They hadn’t. Here is a black male hooker working black hooker road tonight.
Crazy as it sounds, I stopped to interview him. ” Excuse me, are you a black male hooker?”, I queried.
“Yea man, what you looking for?” he replied.
“Actually, I’d like to interview you for a story for my city-wide blog on Fort Lauderdale, and black hooker road”, I answered.
“Huh?” he shot back.” It’s true” I said. ” How long has this been black male hooker road”, I asked.
“Hell , probably 20 years now” he said. “Wait, I ain’t saying no more unless I’m getting paid for this intraview”, he added.
I had stuffed four bucks in my pocket in case of this possibility.” I handed it over.
“Shit“, he said, none too pleased. I asked if I could take a picture of a real life male hooker. He turned his back toward the camera, and grunted, and a set of headlights in the distance was making him jittery to boot.
“How long you been hookin”, I asked.
” I just started” he barked as he hurried off down the road.
Not much of an interview I thought.
I guess you get what you pay for, I chuckled to myself.