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- GAY "BE-IN", SHEEP MEADOW, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, JUNE 28, 1970
- NEW YORK CY GAY TRAVEL
- GAY UPLE SHEEP MEADOW, CENTRAL PARK
GAY "BE-IN", SHEEP MEADOW, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, JUNE 28, 1970
* sheep's meadow central park gay *
On the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Rts, a march set out om Greenwich Village toward Central Park, culmatg a “gay-” at Sheep Meadow. Organizers were surprised to see thoands of people turn out to prott anti-gay sentiment and promote gay pri durg what was then lled the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March. It was the first time that gay and lbian people had taken to the streets for a public display of solidary, muny, and support.
Then about 20 years ago, a new route emerged wh the march ncludg the historilly gay Greenwich Village neighborhood.
Wslow and Bce Kelly—also happened to be gay. Central Park isn’t technilly a gay bar, or even a gay tablishment, but on the send Sunday of every month the summer, might as well be. Durg “Send Sundays, ” Sheep Meadow be packed almost exclively wh gay men a good mood.
NEW YORK CY GAY TRAVEL
Central Park has had numero associatns wh the LGBT muny sce s creatn 1857, cludg many areas popular for meetg and cisg, associatns wh Gay Pri March, and s rtoratn the 1980s.
Begng 1970, the first Gay Pri March (then known as the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March) followed a route om Greenwich Village to Central Park. Gee Chncey, intifyg the park as a major LGBT social center and cisg ground his book Gay New York, found that at the turn of the 20th century men met next to Belvere Castle, by the 1910s bench near Columb Circle had bee a proment pickup se, and the 1920s the lawn at the north end of the Ramble was so popular that was nicknamed “the Fed Pla. ” In the 1920s and ’30s, heavily trafficked by gay men were the areas south of 72nd Street, near Columb Circle, Bethda Founta, and the walkway om the southeastern rner of the park to the Mall, known as “Vasele Alley” or “Bch’ Walk.
” Chncey also noted that, as early as 1921, police were sent to the park to entrap and to arrt gay men, cludg mass sweeps. Among those arrted the park were diarist Donald Vg 1943 and future gay rights lear Harvey Milk, who had jt graduated high school, 1947. The Ramble remaed a highly popular, seclud spot for outdoor sex for s, spe the numero arrts and gay bashgs there.
GAY UPLE SHEEP MEADOW, CENTRAL PARK
Begng 1970, the first Gay Pri March (then known as the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March) followed a route om Greenwich Village to Central Park. Integral to the planng and implementatn were two gay landspe archects, Philip N.
Known at the time as the Christopher Street Liberatn Day March, the route began on Washgton Place between Sheridan Square and Sixth Avenue Greenwich Village, moved north up Sixth Avenue, and end wh a “Gay-In” Central Park’s Sheep Meadow.
In attendance were Ellen Broidy, Lda Rhos, and other members of the newly formed Gay Liberatn Front, and activist Foster Gunnison, Jr. At the fal annual Eastern Regnal Conference of Homophile Organizatns (ERCHO) Philalphia, on November 2, 1969, the followg rolutn was proposed on behalf of Rodwell, reprentg the Homophile Youth Movement, and Broidy, of NYU’s Stunt Homophile League: “That the Annual Remr, orr to be more relevant, reach a greater number of people, and enpass the ias and ials of the larger stggle which we are engaged – that of our fundamental human rights – be moved both time and lotn.