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PIERS MAN IS ASKED: 'ARE YOU GAY?'
* chelsea piers gay history *
0)Why is a notor homophobic magogue set to speak the heart of NYC’s LGBTQ muny? LGBTQ people are ls ncentrated “gayborhoods” than we ed to be, but New York Cy’s Chelsea neighborhood, jt a skip and jump om the Stonewall Inn where Pri got s rto 1969 kickoff, remas a nsely packed gayborhood. Image how I met a man, fell love, moved , and attend synagogue wh him as part of an out/proud gay uple.
Image how I learned my downstairs neighbor’s teenage son was gay — when he and his new boyiend sed at me as they strolled hand--hand down crowd 8th Avenue, whout a re the ’s Chelsea!
The sports/entertament center Chelsea Piers opened before I left NYC, and while ’s not (strictly speakg) a queer facily, quickly beme a hub of queer life — featurg lbian softball leagu, gay golfers, drag-queen-themed birthday bash, you name . A seri of yg wood and steel stctur extendg to the Hudson River along the Wt Si Highway om Christopher Street up to Chelsea, the piers were popular gay cisg spots back the 1970s.
The Florida ernor who signed the so-lled Don’t Say Gay bill spoke at a se long nnected to the gay rights movement. * chelsea piers gay history *
By the 1960s, the massive piers along Manhattan’s Hudson River wateront that projected to the water stood largely abandoned and easily accsible om Greenwich Village, which gay men were begng to take over. In the ’70s and ’80s, the piers beme a popular spot for gay men to sunbathe naked beneath huge murals by artists like Gtav “Tava” Von Will.
What this space lacked fort and ameni for timate liaisons, ma up for by providg the anonymy gay men required at the time to survive.
New York Cy Gay Hockey Associatn players make up five teams among the dozens petg the adult league at Chelsea Piers and half their members are straight. * chelsea piers gay history *
For over a century, the Greenwich Village wateront along the Hudson River, cludg the Christopher Street Pier at Wt 10th and Wt Streets, has been a statn for the LGBT muny that has evolved om a place for cisg and sex for gay men to an important safe haven for a margalized queer muny – mostly queer homels youth of lor. By World War I, the area had bee a popular cisg area for gay men, and by the 1930s the openg of the elevated Miller (Wt Si) Highway (now molished) cut through the area makg more of a backwater.