Mile high?
Heck yeah.
A Stratos Jets survey of 2,000 regular flyers found that nearly 17% had done something sexual on a plane beyond kissing, and an additional 52% had fantasized about it. The term itself dates to 1914, when a young aviator named Lawrence Burst Sperry invented the autopilot system — which, as it turns out, freed up his hands for other things.
Nobody broke down the mile high club statistics by sexual orientation. Nobody thought to ask. Which is interesting, because it would have been a genuinely useful question. As of 2025, 9% of U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ+. Gay people have always been on those planes. The 17% who admitted to sky-high activity? We have no idea who they were going home to. Some of them may have been going home to each other. While this domain seems largely a heterosexual affair, we have to imagine there are some queer connections made.
This collage imagines just that.
Operating in a register of cloud like dreaminess — soft sky blues, pale creams, warm lavender—the work opens with a color palette that reads as almost pastoral. The flight attendant dominates the foreground, large beefcake and gloriously blurred. A twink in focus stands nearby noticing. Dominating the composition, narrative, and innuendo is the fabled foot long hot dog, connecting the two figures front to end, pun definitely intended.
It’s that kinda flight.
Last but never least, the quintessential gay heroine—Dorothy with Toto—she’s flown before. It’s all about the rainbow.
Classic.
Stratos Jets: The Truth About Mile-High Romance
HUD App Blog: The Mile-High Club — Is It Worth It?
Lonely Planet: Mile High Club Membership
Gallup: LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Rises to 9.3% (2025)
