The tale of the gay gas station attendant is chaotic AF

“So I’m gay and I work at a gas station,” says TikToker Andres Cervantes, and never has a single sentence had the power to transform us into the Bill Hader eating popcorn gif.

A gay gas station worker? Well, yes! Gay people and gas stations go way back—it’s not called a service station for nothing. But in the case of Cervantes, it’s not an entirely straightforward story.

As Cervantes says, usually his customers are nothing to write home about. But recently, a superfine gentleman showed up and asked to fill up his truck. Then he asked if he could fill up Cervantes.

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“I thought about it,” Cervantes says. “I thought about everything he could do to me back there, hidden in those restrooms or the back room. Was I strong though? The world may never know but Twitter will.”

Naturally everyone who watched the video then flocked to X, where zero details of the situation were forthcoming.

“Twitter does not know nothing,” one commenter complained. Alas! But not all is lost, because we did find this:

We may never know what went down between Cervantes and his mystery man, but certain commenters filled in the blanks by sharing their own tales of impromptu hookups.

“I was an admin at a hospital,” someone shared, “and a patient family member asked for a private bathroom and I told him where it was and then asked me ‘you want to join me?’ I did.”

Listen, grief does a number on people! And good on that admin for going the extra mile.

“The cooler is the best place, trust,” another poster wrote. Good tip!

Gas stations and truck stops are famous sites of gay action historically, and it’s easy to see why—they’re anonymous, random, and usually full of other men who are (probably) also on Sniffies.

Even before the age of Sniffies, such spaces earned their gay reputation. If you remember the David Corenswet Netflix vehicle Hollywood, which dramatized the story of certain queer stars coming to LA in the ’50s, a young Rock Hudson took a job at the Golden Tip (lol) gas station, where he was expected to service cars…and other things.

The Golden Tip, alas, never existed, but it’s based on a real life gas station owned by Scotty Bowers, who exposed the gay secrets of many stars in his tell-all memoir Full Service. As Bowers explains, the gas station was a convenient front for…another kind of service station.

So basically Cervantes is doing his queer ancestors proud, whether or not he succumbed to the gentleman. But if he did—and the world may never know—those ancestors are probably feeling extra proud right about now.

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