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New York Cy has a huge gay scene, and ’s arguably the most culturally signifint the world. After all, was at NYC’s Stonewall Inn where an outbreak of ristance agast opprsive police accelerated the gay rights movement to a cril pot.
The days, most of the gay bars and clubs are centered around Hell's Kchen but you'll also fd gay scen Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and Brooklyn. Nowadays, gays have sex their apartments—sometim even beds—but back the old days, lots of gays went to all kds of rnchy lol to rry on, om clubs to parks to tcks to bath ho.
In the Wt Village the '60s and '70s, gays ngregated var large vehicl that had been unload, as were, and were left open the back, poetilly enough. Gays went to a booth, stuck their bs a slot as if mailg a COD package, and then waed for someone to nibble on .
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The Club and the Everard were hoppg wh gays towels, but maybe the most famo of all was the Contental Baths (2109 Broadway), where the gays went to see Bette Midler perform—though more often, they were performg their own acts (sex acts, that is) the rooms they rented.
It was a wanton sex se, where gays stood around gettg naked and sandy—and blown (by the sand and by other guys). Gays went to the booths to rry on wh strangers, and when they left, all moist and sticky, they weren't the least b more lerary than when they me . Back when the pier was a big, old rottg piece of wood, gays would hang out there lookg for hot hookups, and totally gettg them.
The river -- like the woods -- seems to turn gays on, addn to the fact that the relatively remote urban areas always provid a sort of taboo but nvenient space for dog . The wt si of that 30-acre sectn of Central Park known as the Ramble had a reputatn as a homosexual meetg ground long before Cole teased his iends at private parti wh this suggtive lyric. But though Central Park at night—any part of the park—is dangero, the gay ghetto that is the Ramble is perhaps the sectn most fear-ridn.
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But the shadowy dangers are sharp ntrast to the sereny of the sun-flecked arboreal mec the Ramble be for thoands of gay men throughout each day. The sun, the strollg, even the solu, and the natural bety of the park’s most bulic pse—more than the opportuny for a sual sexual enunter the bh—are the mags that for much of this century have ma the Ramble the cy’s bt-known outdoor gatherg place for gays. The Ramble has been the public eye ever sce the asslt July 5 by a gang of anti-gay toughs who, at 9:30, jt a ltle after dk that Wednday, went wadg wh baseball bats, bashg any men they thought were gay.
And leadg to those verduro tangl are man-ma trails—cleared not by the Parks Department but by the feet of s of men, seekg to meet other men a gay cloister away om the cy’s disdaful ey. There have always been parts of our cy that have served as gay cisg areas: Washgton Square Park the 1940s, Third Avenue near the Queensboro Bridge the 1950s, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at 89th Street and Riversi Drive the sixti, piers at the end of Christopher Street Greenwich Village the seventi. “I was livg abroad wh a woman at that time, but I had begun to figure out that I was gay.
But outdoor sex is not the only thg that draws gay people to that part of the park.